Shooting day for night is one thing. Shreveport for Santa Monica is quite another.
In a new indignity for Hollywood’s struggling film production business, Los Angeles and its environs are about to be ravaged by aliens in “Battle: Los Angeles.” It stars Aaron Eckhart, is set for release by Sony Pictures in 2011 — and was shot in Louisiana.
The cause is no secret: Taxpayer-supported subsidies have steadily drawn film work from Los Angeles to states like Louisiana, Michigan and New Mexico. Those three give filmmakers public support more generous than a complicated tax break California offered to producers last year, in a belated attempt to fight back.
New York City, of course, has had to get used to seeing itself depicted on screen in scenes shot in a dozen cities, like Toronto and Vancouver and, yes, Los Angeles.
Friday, February 05, 2010
For Hollywood, Stand-Ins Play California’s Part
The New York Times reports:
