Anything Goes : Hollywood struggles to halt an exodus of film-makers by Andrew Heard

Well the Fat Tick has sucked the host dry. What, is it going to be $50 a ticket to see a show so that at the end of the show we can see made in HW? LOL! Something has to give. I say toss the tea in the Harbor to send a clear message. IMO.

Is that good news or bad for the rest of us?

Good for those who don't live in Hollywood but there's a lot of benefits to the Hollywood system that could fall apart if it goes on forever.

Thanks for sharing.

No problem.

Just when I was thinking to go there, somebody has moved it? Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.

It was kind of funny then, to hear a friend of mine tell about how her husband (a 30-year veteran Key Grip who worked on Argo, among other big films) had to be out-of-state for several weeks to work on an important production job. They live in the L.A. area. So a lot of the top talent is obviously still in Los Angeles, because top talent has been gravitating there for so many years ... but they are "shipped out" to locations outside of California? I wonder how much top talent, I mean, people with years of high-grade professional experience, they actually manage to find in these other areas (large, metropolitan cities notwithstanding). I recently connected with an audio engineer who worked on Elysium and has many years of experience engineering big video game and film scores ... for Elysium, they flew him up to Abbey Road in London to handle the score recording. The musicians were local. But neither this audio engineer, nor the music editor, nor the lead orchestrator, nor the composer was from England.

Make your connections, go live where the housing and neighbors are good. Sounds like it to me....

Those taxes will kill you every time. This is why I have felt for a long time that California should be split to north and south. That would cut the tax burden and companies would really thrive then.

I think they are all in London. Hollywood's death was for told by George Lucus and Stephen Speilberg http://www.prattdigital.org/hollywood-is-dead-spielberg-says-movie-indus... It is not a matter of regret as overpriced productions have limited the market and strangled the life out of it. The future is sensibly priced productions in a hungry on line market. No one needs to be paid $25 million for a film.