Now LA wants a Film Czar?

I take a day off to go skiing and I’m swamped with news! This will teach me.

Have you heard this? City leaders are thinking about getting a film czar to bring film shoots back to the city.

LA is in a huge panic right now because there are only 3 major films scheduled to shoot in the city this year. More than 100 major films with budgets over $75 million were shot in LA in 2007 and only 22 were filmed last year. That’s a huge decline!

Other states have been offering tax breaks, free services and other incentives that have been luring movie producers away from Hollywood. Some states even lend out the police for free.

Residents who hate film shoots in their neighborhoods have also helped in runaway production.

I don’t know what took the city so long to get their act together. For far too long they have just accepted that Hollywood will always shoot in their backyard. This is like having a girlfriend and taking her for granted. Once you realize she’s just not that interested in you anymore, you start to pay attention to her again to try and win her back.

Not that that’s ever happened to me.

And by the way, the above picture isn’t actually from LA. I couldn’t find an actual picture of a film that shot in the streets of LA.