L.A. prod'n increases 5.7% this year

Hollywood's offlot manufacture of features rose 5.7% this year but TV activity slid 2.7% because of a disappointing fall production season as runaway production required its toll on local shoots. Enabling agency FilmLA reported Tuesday that overall offlot production elevated 4.2% this past year to 45,484 allowed days. FilmL.A. leader Paul Audley stated the location can't rely on TV being shot in La. "When we're relieved to determine annual gains in overall production days, we can't take any growth as a given,Inch Audley stated. "We should battle to keep and get more movies and-value television series to help keep our vendor companies and deck hands working and our region's economy afloat." Feature production totalled 5,682 days using the 5.7% yearly boost due largely to some 50% surge within the third quarter 4th-quarter production stepped 26%. Films that qualified for that California Film & Television Tax Credit Program produced 652 days within the La region this past year -- 11.5% from the annual total. The most known feature to shoot in La was "Magnus Rex" -- really the place reputation for Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Dark night Increases." Other films of note to shoot in your area incorporated "A Glimpse Within the Mind of Charles Swan III," "Argo," "Smashing the Girl," "Cyber Planet," "Decoding Annie Parker," "Gangster Squad," "My Mother's Curse," "Savages," "Seven Psychopaths," "Sports Camping," "Think Just like a Guy," "This Really Is 40," "We've Your Husband" and "Thanks for visiting People." Television -- the biggest element of offlot production -- rejected by nearly 500 days to 17,349 days. The 4th quarter symbolized the greatest decline, posting a ten.6% drop because of losing 10 one-hour TV drama series with other states, with FilmL.A. observing the condition of NY is getting an archive TV season because it provides more than four occasions the quantity of funding obtainable in filming tax credits than does California. L.A.-area production within the advertisements category elevated 4.4% to 7,079 days, setting an annual high by topping the 2005 record by 96 days. The "other" category, which inlcudes musicvids, rose 12.% to fifteen,374 days. Overall offlot production still lags the 2008 total of 47,117 allowed days but has enhanced in the 2009 total of 37,979 days. Calfornia Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes is developing legislation that will extend California's film production incentive program, and that he stated he intends to introduce a bill within the approaching legislative session. The 4-year-old program has allotted $400 million of credits and can allocate another $100 million in This summer plus another $100 million to become allotted in This summer 2013. California's program, that provides a maximum rebate of 25%, is way more compact than individuals of other states. NY introduced in August that the record 23 series were lensing within the condition around the heels of their legislature's five-year renewal from the film incentive tax program there, that provides a 30% refundable condition tax credit, assigned at $420 million each year NY City provides an additional 5% refundable credit, assigned yearly at $$ 30 million. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com