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‘It feels empty’: is Hollywood film and TV production in a death spiral?

Filming in Los Angeles is at a historic low, with some suggesting the city might go the way of Detroit

Scarpa, whose recent credits include Gladiator II and Napoleon, adds: “The state and the city are both struggling with big fiscal issues and in a way it becomes an arms race: is LA going to be able to compete with eastern Europe? Some politicians warn that the tax incentives will represent a corporate giveaway to wealthy studio bosses; others argue that more importantly they are about keeping jobs in California and offering workers a wage to match the high cost of living. Photograph: Valerie Macontimothy A Clary/AFP/Getty ImagesBut Flynn for one is not pinning her hopes on the trio, noting that Voight has adopted “financial core” status with the Sag-Aftra, making him a fee-paying non-member who is allowed to work on both union and non-union projects.

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