Hollywood feels the pinch: Film production at standstill.
Economy and migration of studio work elsewhere put many LA staff out of a job.Bruce McCleery hardly had a day out of work in 25 years. As one of Hollywood's most sought-after lighting technicians, he worked on big budget movies like Independence Day and Mission Impossible III. He traveled the world as part of an elite group of technicians considered core members of a film production team. For the past few years, he developed a second career as a cinematographer, working mostly on small, independent productions or doing second-unit work on blockbusters such as Transformers II.
That, though, was before the bottom fell out of the film industry....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/apr/27/hollywood-film-industry
... Some of California's competitor states, including New Mexico and New York, have had second thoughts about their own tax packages because of budgetary woes - a fact that could yet work out in California's favor. The industry, after all, is still based here, and the Hollywood name still has a worldwide resonance. "If we can recover our recent losses," Audley said, "California can remain a major player."
For now, though, that remains a big if.
Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
The Guardian, Monday 27 April 2009
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