Film and television productions continue to flee from California and Masse thanks to high taxes and unfavorable working conditions for productions, and nothing of Democratic governor Gavin Newsom can do seems to be stopping the exodus.
The productions have constantly left California for more than a decade, since the costs have undertaken the presentation in Los Angeles or in other places of prohibitive California, and the recent devastating fires in Los Angeles have worsened things.
The locations in other parts of the United States have been the happy receiver of entertainment productions such as Las Vegas, Chicago, and the states of Georgia and New Mexico, among many others, have greatly benefited from the influx of filmmakers. But productions outside the United States have also been reaping rewards.
Like him New York Times Recently he informed, actor Rob Lowe moved the production of his game program, The floorFrom the to Dublin, Ireland, because, in his words, it is “cheaper to bring a hundred American people to Ireland to cross the lot in Fox, through the sound stages and do it there.”
Lowe also criticized California and Los Angeles for the situation, saying: “What California and Los Angeles have left. It is criminal. Everyone should say goodbye.”
As a result, filmmakers have transmitted to Australia, Ireland, Hungary and a growing list of other countries. Meanwhile, the mark of the industry in Los Angeles continues to decrease.
“Studies in European countries are exploding in seams, industry workers say. And film and television production in Los Angeles has decreased by more than one third in the last 10 years, according to film data” Times Reported.
In addition, as Michael F. Miller Jr., vice president of the International Alliance of Employees of the Theater Stage, told the newspaper about 18,000 full -time jobs in the film industry have disappeared in Los Angeles only in the last three years.
The loss of the gain of others. The film producer Aaron Ryder added that in Budapest, Hungary, he sees a growing number of publicists, producers and other members of the film industry there.
“You can enter the bar in the lobby in the four seasons and probably see more whims or actors and directors and people you know there than in the four seasons of Los Angeles,” Ryder told the newspaper.
Other privileged information of the industry, producer Amy Baer, told the Times That After The Wildfires Ripped Through the Area, She Wted To Move The Production of Her Film From Canada Back To the But While She make it to make it to make it to make it to
“The idea was:” Can we run to keep this in Los Angeles? “And the answer was no,” Baer said. “We have reached a turning point in which we run the risk of losing the ability to make films here forever.”
He has such bad guids in Los Angeles that Produro, a tracker of the industry, now occupies the sixth place among the most desirable places to produce a film or television show. La Lags behind Toronto, Great Britain, Vancouver, Central Europe and Australia, all for the extremely high costs that California imposes on labor, materials, taxes and other costs that the industry faces daily.
Governor Gavin Newsom has tried to float new incentives for the film industry, but their efforts have a leg too weak to attract productions to stay in Los Angeles
Worse, many Democrats in the state legislature insist that the restrictions that a leg charged in the industry have are good, not things that must be thrown. And its solution is that the federal government does “something” on the issue, he thought they don’t say exactly what the federals should do.
He Times It contrasts the costs when observing how much a team is paid, called “grip” in Los Angeles compared to what they cost the same positions in Budapest, Hungary. In Hungary, it costs a production of $ 59000 for a team of seven of these agents for a 30 -day session. In comparison, in Los Angeles it costs $ 53,000 for only one grip for that same shooting schedule.
Consistently, the spiral continues. And it is not a sudden development.
Last year, the Times the He informed that even three years after the pandemic sausage, the works of the Hollywood film industry had not returned and, instead, they still fell. And Deadline reported that the film industry is a “large -scale depression.”
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