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California Economy Feels the Pain of Hollywood Studio Troubles
The New York Times ^ | December 26, 2024 | Kurtis Lee

Posted on 12/26/2024 10:16:27 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Film production has failed to bounce back after major strikes last year, and competition from other locales has gotten stiffer.

The struggles have become a painful, recurring story line in Hollywood.

A script supervisor visiting a food bank every other week. The cinematographer who moved to Georgia for better filming opportunities. An art department coordinator applying for administrative jobs to cover rent.

The economic outlook of the Los Angeles area, with a population larger than most states, has been clouded in recent years by events that have upended the entertainment industry. Market saturation led to a shakeout among direct-to-streaming providers. Then the Covid-19 pandemic shut down production. And strikes by writers and actors last year went on for months, giving studios time to explore filming elsewhere, in regions that offer hefty tax incentives.

When the strikes ended, workers in Hollywood hoped their schedules would finally fill up again. But for many people, things only got worse.

In the third quarter of 2024, film production levels declined 5 percent from the same stretch in 2023, based on a report from FilmLA, the official film office of the City and County of Los Angeles.

Paul Audley, the organization’s president, said in the report that even a few months ago many had thought they would see gains — hoping for a rebound from what he called “the strike effect.”

“Instead, we saw a pullback and loss of forward momentum, heading into the fall season that will make or break the year,” Mr. Audley said.

Since May 2023, when the Writers Guild of America strike began, motion picture and sound recording jobs in the Los Angeles area have declined 15 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

For Deborah Huss Humphries, the past few months have been particularly challenging.


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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: california; economy; entertainment; hollywood
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

An industry that decided to portray white folk as dunces, uncool, unhip, and racist buffoons now can’t figure out why nobody is buying what they’re peddling.

It’s an industry full of really stupid people.


21 posted on 12/26/2024 10:42:51 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Even with the payoffs from their friends in the democratic party, they took a big hit during the Scamdemic. A good portion of the US population learned they really don’t need the banality they produce to be entertained.


22 posted on 12/26/2024 10:51:44 AM PST by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

GAME SHOWS ARE MUCH CHEAPER & NOT many writers are involved.

ANOTHER INSTANCE of the UNIONS DESTROYING MORE THAN THEY GAINED.


23 posted on 12/26/2024 11:04:14 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: packrat35

THE NEW GAME SHOW “THE FLOOR” is rather interesting.


24 posted on 12/26/2024 11:04:55 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Venture Capital is buying paramount. The part is over boys, now the vultures are going to run the business! Turn out the lights California, the gravy train is over…..


25 posted on 12/26/2024 11:10:58 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: dragnet2
slow-clap-citizen-kane
26 posted on 12/26/2024 11:14:09 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Film production has failed to bounce back after major strikes

What went wrong Moe?.


27 posted on 12/26/2024 11:31:56 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Filming is being done in Canada and Georgia at Tyler Perry’s studio


28 posted on 12/26/2024 11:44:54 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Awww. Maybe hollywood should try more DEI and sex dysphoria. Go hard.


29 posted on 12/26/2024 11:47:54 AM PST by Kudsman (Hey,, Democrat,,leave them kids alone!)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

They are lazy. It’s just repeat the same stories over and over.

DC is on its 4th reboot of Superman.


30 posted on 12/26/2024 11:52:48 AM PST by Fledermaus (It's over for the weak minded GOP. Do the right thing or leave. You will be primaried!)
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To: Fledermaus

Most writers will tell you there are only about 10-20 types of stories. The characters and situations might change but that’s about it


31 posted on 12/26/2024 11:58:20 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder tro find.)
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To: Getready

Like music. Only so many notes.


32 posted on 12/26/2024 12:01:35 PM PST by Fledermaus (It's over for the weak minded GOP. Do the right thing or leave. You will be primaried!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Georgia needs to get that leftist scum out of their state. Let them go back to Commiefornia.


33 posted on 12/26/2024 2:14:51 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Too many tax breaks for the rich. The solution is to heavily tax the film industry.

This works every time liberals try it. Fixes everything.

Even though Hollywood indisputably produces the noblest art in the history of humankind and greatly deserves the wealth and power it has attained, it just cannot compete with the even greater worthiness of the government of California and its highly effective use of tax revenues.


34 posted on 12/26/2024 2:42:13 PM PST by unlearner (Still not tired of winning.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hollywood needs to go back to the basics and come up with actual hits like “Barbenheimer”.


35 posted on 12/26/2024 2:44:57 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: dragnet2

Last time I was at a theater was in 2010 to see the remake of True Grit. Before that it was Master and Commander, and Saving Private Ryan.
Had a chance to see on TV a 2011 remake of The Three Musketeers but it was so silly, a remix of fantasy, Chinese kung fu in Paris, copying Mission Impossible and general stupidity.
So to cleanse my mind of such nonsense I have pulled out my DVDs of Zulu Dawn, Zulu, UNTAMED(Susan Hayward was HOT!) Khartoum, SIMBA and other great movies from the 1950s and 1960s.
If you got a DVD collection like mine you don’t need modern silliness that airheads today watch.


36 posted on 12/26/2024 2:54:17 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: ridesthemiles

***GAME SHOWS ARE MUCH CHEAPER***

True but you have to show people WINNING! Remember the Payola scandal of the 1950s?


37 posted on 12/26/2024 2:57:35 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Painful? Just horrible.


38 posted on 12/26/2024 3:30:02 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Theoria

“Hollywood, Games and Movie companies are ill prepared for the rise of hobbyist and small companies that will put out movies and games out of their garages.”

^^This^^

Hollywood has become the buggy whip industry at the onset of motorized vehicles.


39 posted on 12/26/2024 4:04:30 PM PST by tballard56
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To: Getready
Technically there are 4 stories.

Man against man.

Man against nature.

Man against himself.

Man against God.

But oh what a variety of things you can do inside those four frameworks.

If you are not a lazy unimaginative hack.

40 posted on 12/26/2024 5:24:43 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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