[dervish]

Maybe I was unclear. I meant in the Hollywood film industry.

[af_vet_1981]

Maybe I was unclear. I meant in the Hollywood film industry.

Do you know how many people work in the Hollywood film industry ?

... according to the Screen Actors Guild, blacks, who comprise 12 percent of the population, are cast in 14.8 percent of all roles on television and in movies. ABC says that 33.6 percent of new network hires went to minorities. Forty-one percent of Fox's prime-time series actors are minorities. CBS says that 29 percent of its actors are black.

[af_vet_1981]

• The number of Californians directly employed in entertainment production rose from 164,000 to 226,000 during the four year period, a 38 % increase - more than seven times faster than California's overall employment growth and nearly four times faster than employment growth in the rest of the United States.
• However, only about one-third of cinema industry jobs in the U.S. are in California. According to latest available statistics, in 1999, 630,000 persons were directly employed in the cinema industry in the United States. This is an increase of 64% over 1989, or an average of 6.4 % increase in jobs each year for the decade.
• Closely related to the cinema production business, and also centered in Los Angeles, is the sound recording industry.