L.A. Production Days Jump 26% in August
Shooting films, TV shows, commercials and music videos on Los Angeles streets jumped 26% in August from a year earlier, when production was at a near standstill because of threatened writer and actor strikes that never materialized.
The number of production days--one production day is a single day of shooting on a specific project--climbed to 2,640 in August from 2,096 a year earlier, according to the Entertainment Industry Development Corp. Feature film permits came to 748 in August, more than double the number of days in the year-earlier period.
Production days for commercials were flat last month at 490 compared with 484 a year earlier; TV production days were up 22% to 1,267. For the first eight months of the year the number of production days was off 10% from a year earlier.
The EIDC issues permits for the county and city when projects are shot in public places. The quasi-public agency is under investigation by prosecutors about whether it misused public funds.
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