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Hush over Hollywood: why has it become so hard to make films in Los Angeles?
The drop in productions is causing alarm – can Tinseltown halt the exodus and reclais its spot as the home of movie-making?
The permitting fees and restrictions in Los Angeles are especially burdensome for film student and indie filmmakers, who argue “it’s already hard enough right now” in the industry, Pechman said, and they emerged as an important concern in Stay in LA’s grassroots advocacy. “We do not believe that wage increases have anything to do with productions moving overseas or out of state,” a spokesperson for Sag-Aftra said in a statement, saying the union attributed the recent decreases to tax incentives elsewhere, currency exchange rates, and the “overall drop in the market demand for scripted, dramatic programming”. But locals are now worrying that the LA’s creative workforce is being pushed to a tipping point, after five years of economic hardship, first during the pandemic, then as production halted during the writers’ and actors’ strikes, and now, as fears about artificial intelligence stealing jobs overlap with the terror and devastation of southern California’s growing wildfires.
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