Atlanta or New Orleans: Which deserved the New Hollywood title? (cons, development)
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Probably Atlanta but let's not be fooled by stats. Neither can compare to Los Angeles.
Louisiana has the most big dollar movies that are officially filmed their because their tax payers pay 30% to 35% of their EXPENSES which is just too much to pass up. Georgia has a similar deal but Louisiana's is especially unsustainable and most importantly, artificial.
Cut the subsidies and poof they disappear. Also, Hollywood/LA still is home to the stars and still has tons, TONS of productions going on all over at all times.
Probably Atlanta but let's not be fooled by stats. Neither can compare to Los Angeles.
Louisiana has the most big dollar movies that are officially filmed their because their tax payers pay 30% to 35% of their EXPENSES which is just too much to pass up. Georgia has a similar deal but Louisiana's is especially unsustainable and most importantly, artificial.
Cut the subsidies and poof they disappear. Also, Hollywood/LA still is home to the stars and still has tons, TONS of productions going on all over at all times.
We are beginning to get post production facilities which will help anchor the industry. Isn't a facility going up on the Westbank or somewhere? One thing I wish the state would do is push for them to hire more in-state employees rather than flying them out from LA.
We are beginning to get post production facilities which will help anchor the industry. Isn't a facility going up on the Westbank or somewhere? One thing I wish the state would do is push for them to hire more in-state employees rather than flying them out from LA.
The thing is...How decentralized to the actors, producers, agents, talent scouts want to be? You can take some of the filming out of LA...which I think is a ploy by the MPAA to make-- which they were successful in-- obtaining tax breaks from California. There is more to Hollywood than filming and there is a technological aspect of the industry which LA is excelling right now. Like, internet streaming and international films. ATL & NO needs something like Maker Studios to plan for the future because they are only luring a particular aspect of the film industry. The MPAA is basically trying to make it so that they never have to pay for their own films. Whether in ATL, NO, London, NZ, Autsralia, Canada...basically anywhere that will give them money. It was only recently that CA gave them $320 million to play into their scheme. They are not loyal to any city really even though if you asked producers and actors where they would rather be...It's L.A.
Whether people want to admit or not the film industry is booming in Louisiana and truthfully, its just the tip of the iceberg. In my opinion TV will be right behind. Below is a link of one of the state of the art facilities that have been proposed and some pics to go along with. Its simply gorgeous!!
The film/tv industries in both Louisiana and Georgia are booming, no question. But total number of productions is a lousy metric. The number that matters - the only number that matters - is the total revenue generated by those productions. And for Georgia, that number in 2014 is projected to be 5.1 billion USD.
I don't know how much the economic impact is for Louisiana. I've had trouble finding their figures for this fiscal year. If someone has them and would post/link them, that would be great.
But I suspect Georgia is way ahead of Louisiana in terms of economic impact. And, again, that is the important figure, not the number of shows. Mumbai, after all, puts every other city in the world to shame in number of concurrent projects in development. And yet, if you were to add up their top 50 productions for this year, it would likely be less than one new Hunger Games sequel (which, incidentally, was filmed in Atlanta).
How much money will Louisiana take in from film/tv production this year?
I know this thread is about Atlanta and N.O. but almost all production originating in Los Angeles has to travel through these two cities. As the two largest cities go, so goes their respective states.
Whether people want to admit or not the film industry is booming in Louisiana and truthfully, its just the tip of the iceberg. In my opinion TV will be right behind. Below is a link of one of the state of the art facilities that have been proposed and some pics to go along with. Its simply gorgeous!!
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