Location Shooting in County Up by 16%
Productions outside of studio lots rose 16% in January from a year earlier, according to the Entertainment Industry Development Corp.
The agency, which oversees the issuing of permits for shooting in public throughout most of Los Angeles County, said the number of days spent filming movies, TV shows, music videos, commercials and other productions came to 2,444 in the month, up from 1,847 a year earlier.
Production of feature films, meanwhile, edged up slightly, the numbers show, while television posted a stronger increase. Production in the county has been soft in the last two years, compared to the levels of the mid-1990s.
Film officials are hopeful that the recent numbers will prove an early sign that the production decline is bottoming out.
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