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post #1 of 8
12/22/10 at 7:20pm
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Spider-Man is a home town boon.


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post #2 of 8
12/22/10 at 7:33pm
Yeah, I was talking to my sister last night about an old Rhodes furniture gallery in Powder Springs being a major hub set of some kind for The Walking Dead and she said Lakewood is on the way to being turned into a "full" studio with soundstages and whatnot in the near future.

Did she misinform or is the ATL ginning up some major film making possibilities as well?

As to the article itself, of course I have to bring out the conservative point that this is just part and parcel of the liberal political climate out there making "business" a difficult proposition in the Golden State. Movies and Marijuana, Sacramento needs to do everything they can to let these two economies off the chain.
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post #3 of 8
12/22/10 at 7:50pm
LA losing film business?

As a film fan, I fail to see why this is a bad thing. I am bored by LA. It's locations and over all look appear more generic with each passing year, and worse still the glut of films centered in and around CA are beginning to aggravate me as a sign of cultural narcissism. It's like Hollywood thinks that there is no America worth pointing a camera at outside of California (unless the camera is used to shoot murderous rednecks or rust belt crack addicts or something)

I love that Massachusetts is getting more film development (just saw THE TOWN and thought THE INVENTION OF LYING made great use of Lowell), so I say good riddance to California's sun drenched concrete and identikit sky scrapers

I hope the business doesn't come back for another century, and instead the New Millennium will be the one where movies truly broaden their scope and tell us tales set in each and every corner of this nation

As for SM? Isn't the budget only supposed to be 80 mil or something? Doesn't seem like that big a "get" for a locale as storied as Tinsel Town



A film shot in Massachusetts? A breath of fresh air
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post #4 of 8
12/22/10 at 8:16pm
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Originally Posted by TzuDohNihm View Post
As to the article itself, of course I have to bring out the conservative point that this is just part and parcel of the liberal political climate out there making "business" a difficult proposition in the Golden State. Movies and Marijuana, Sacramento needs to do everything they can to let these two economies off the chain.
Not necessarily directed at you, but I kinda wonder how the people that praise tax incentives resulting in film projects moving to other states (to their states I guess), feel about outsourcing jobs overseas.

It's all America I guess, but still.
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post #5 of 8
12/22/10 at 9:09pm
I dunno, I always saw LA as merely a home base of operations, where everything gets financed by the studios and most actors reside (or linger)...it's the industry...the actual content has almost nothing to do with LA. And honestly, most of LA is totally separate from "Hollywood", which is a pretty self contained area. ILM/Skywalker sound, where ALOT of movies get finished is in the bay area...WETA is in New Zealand I think. The golden age ended a long ass time ago.
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post #6 of 8
12/23/10 at 4:14am
True that.

With Spider-man specifically called out, I suppose one thing to note is that just because filming takes place in a certain place doesn't mean that that place matters creatively. A lot of these decisions are cash moves, and just because a movie is filmed in New Orleans doesn't mean that the movie actually takes place in New Orleans.

Writers being in LA or from LA probably has some influence on quite a bit of content being set in LA. Write what you know and all that.
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post #7 of 8
12/23/10 at 4:17am
Lower Alabama?
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post #8 of 8
12/23/10 at 5:11am
great article. always love hearing about the business side of hollywood.

that said, I agree that while Hollywood will always be that 'eye of the storm' so to speak, budgetary concerns will always trump LA loyalty. Make it cheap to film and the film industry will be there. I really doubt that the epicenter will really move though, LA has to much of a romantic past that still entices people.
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