Well, they took one studio and one prop house as a sort of dual microcosm of the Hollywood scene. The story plays out almost everywhere around Southern California. There are empty studios from Burbank to the ill-erected one downtown. Arnold's tax breaks might have been enough to get people to stay, but most have already left, and they aren't significant enough to lure anyone back.
I think this story is different this time around in that I don't see a way for Hollywood to rebound. There is no nod to tradition anywhere in the industry, and, without that, there is no motivation to return to Hollywood. Which means the only thing California can do is nudge studios and production companies out of state. I believe the only production companies with their own studios still operating within the area known as Hollywood are Paramount (which now offers studio tours, by the way) and Henson (which works out of the refurbished Charlie Chaplin studios... and still doesn't offer public tours, the bastards). NBCUNI and WB are out in the hills, CBS is in TV City and the valley, ABC is in Glendale (Disney is in Burbank), and Fox is out near Century City. And I think you could count on one hand the number of shows and movies each company is producing in Hollywood. On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 3:46 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Kevin M.<[email protected]> wrote: > > I was planning to write something about how most production companies > have > > abandoned Hollywood for pasture not only greener but fertilized with tax > > incentives, but NPR's story does a decent job without my snarky take on > the > > situation. Which is not to say I won't write some snark soon, but you > should > > check out this article in the meantime: > > > > > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111586301&ft=1&f=1001 > > But there is a frustrating lack of real reporting in this piece - for > example, an evaluation of Arnold's recent tax breaks for Hollywood, > and something more than anecdotal description of the impact of runaway > production on below the line workers and concentric effects on related > industries. > > The other thing is, don't we see this article written about every five > or ten years? > > > > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
