notes<\/a>, films are enjoying a rebound at the box office. The immense success of “The Odyssey” is an obvious example, but that movie was always expected to be a winner.\u00a0<\/p>\nMore surprising are the Michael Jackson biopic, “Michael,” which has brought in a billion dollars despite the late singer’s controversial past; and “Obsession,” which was made for less than a million dollars and has made nearly half a billion.<\/p>\n
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The Walt Disney Company main gate in Burbank. GC Images<\/p>\n
So film production ought to be particularly active in LA. The fact that film production is going down is a sign of how badly LA is missing out on the boom.<\/p>\n
LA’s leaders, both in government and in the entertainment industry, need to take drastic action.<\/p>\n
Tax credits cleary aren’t cutting it. And other cities and states can offer similar incentives, in what has become a “race to the bottom.”<\/p>\n
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An aerial view of the Paramount water tower. Getty Images<\/p>\n
LA needs to provide a qualitatively better environment for filming.<\/p>\n
It’s hard to imagine a better environment than the one provided by Southern California’s natural beauty and abundant talent.<\/p>\n
But the business climate is terrible.<\/p>\n
Homelessness, crime, and regulations \u2014 the same plagues that haunt every other industry in LA \u2014 are threatening the film industry as well.<\/p>\n
But the film industry also has large and powerful unions to deal with. And often, these unions cause massive problems.<\/p>\n
Labor strikes have been more frequent in recent years. And union rules and wages mean that productions that could be easy, quick, and cheap are difficult, laborious, and wasteful.<\/p>\n
Hollywood should be speaking out. But it’s not, because of politics.<\/p>\n
It’s easier to denounce President Donald Trump for ICE raids \u2014 though they are making our streets safer \u2014 than it is to denounce unions for making the city poorer.<\/p>\n
Hollywood needs more maturity and leadership from union leaders \u2014 lest they lose the industry they are supposed to organize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The crisis in LA’s film industry is becoming more and more urgent. New figures released by FIlmLA last…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":961406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,238716,486,49257,87018,386593,2961,224,5337,166257],"class_list":["post-961405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-film-and-television-production","tag-film-critic","tag-film-industry","tag-film-production","tag-generous-tax-incentives","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-paramount-studios"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116989062746822774","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/961406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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