Category: Movies

Trend follows reduction in funds from state tax credits

A softening of off-lot feature production activity in Hollywood has provoked a plea for more state support via incentives for producers to stay in L.A.

Third-quarter stats released Tuesday by nonprofit permitting agency FilmL.A. showed 1,387 days of feature shooting in the Los Angeles area — down 6.6% in the third quarter year over year to 1,387 days amid the ongoing trend of features shooting outside Hollywood, along with the reduction in funds from state tax credits. The agency’s second-quarter stats showed feature activity had jumped 11.5%, due largely to the credits…

https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118025580.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

After a bidding war by multiple networks, Fox has nabbed the rights to a series adaptation of the 2005 hit romantic comedy Hitch…

https://www.deadline.com/2010/10/fox-lands-will-smiths-hitch-tv-adaptation/

https://blastr.com/2010/09/infographic-breaks-down-t.php

…Not surprisingly, the beauty and variety of the state’s 278 parks have provided countless backdrops for movies, TV shows and commercials for a century. In 2009 alone, nearly 500 permits were issued for nearly 1,000 days of filming in state parks…

https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2010/09/hollywood-looks-to-preserve-its-natural-backlot-state-parks.html

Netflix is exporting its popular subscription service to our neighbors to the North…

https://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/netflix-gets-northern-exposure-canadian-launch-21088

Famed French filmmaker (and possible Academy Award Honoree) Jean-Luc Godard is using some of the money he saved with his Hyundai purchase to fight the good fight against copyright laws. The filmmaker is donating 1,000 Euros to the defense of James Climent, who is accused of downloading 13,788 MP3s illegally…

https://www.movieline.com/2010/09/jean-luc-godard-jean-luc-godard-supports-internet-piracy-and-donates-1000-for-mp3-downloaders-defens.php

In a never-before-seen interview from 1970 that just surfaced on YouTube, The Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling talks with SF author James Gunn about his show, the stories he created and his own ability to actually write science fiction…

https://blastr.com/2010/08/rod-serling-says-he-never.php

Attention studio moguls: In case you didn’t already know, Shia LaBeouf is a good value. At least according to Forbes magazine, which this week ranked the “Transformers” star No. 1 on its list of Hollywood’s Best Actors for the Buck…

https://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/shia-labeouf-tops-forbes-best-actors-buck-list-20529

Eligibility rules altered for health plan

https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118023523.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

While Google gets ready to fight an appeal from Viacom in its billion-dollar copyright lawsuit, the search giant is in negotiations with Hollywood studios to launch a “global pay-per-view video service by the end of 2010,…

https://www.thewrap.com/media/column-post/report-google-talks-hollywood-studios-demand-video-20494