L.A. On-Location Filming Up 15% In 3Q

On-location filming in La elevated by 15.4% year-over-year throughout the 3rd quarter, assisted simply by eight feature film shoots in the area which were based on the California Film & Television Tax Credit. The flicks — including Warner Bros’ Film Clip-directed Argo and period L.A. mob pic Gangster Squad, in addition to Screen Gems’ Steve Harvey book adaptation Think Just Like A Guy — certainly assist the industry’s situation if this involves offering the need for the condition tax credit, a yearly $100 million program that lately was restored for just one year as opposed to a wished-for 5 years after it had been compromised back through the condition Senate in committee. Overall, since its 2009 launch this program has introduced $3.8B in economic output and supported 20,040 jobs — and improves quarterly on-location production amounts such as the ones launched today by FilmL.A. Also throughout the 3rd quarter, non-tax-credit films like Oliver Stone’s Savages led towards the feature production uptick — the sector increased 49.9% in comparison with this past year. TV production increased 5.8% within the quarter but wasn’t assisted with a slide in drama as La lost 10 one-hour series this year. Regrettably, our summer time conjecture of reduced third quarter TV drama production was place-on, FilmL.A. leader Paul Audley stated. As the California condition incentive introduced six television dramas to La this quarter, weve seen other areas capture an abnormally large number of those economically advantageous projects.