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New York City enters Phase 4 — the last region in the state to do so — on Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo confirmed in a Friday afternoon conference call, allowing film and TV production to ramp up and fanless pro sports to move foward after being cleared by global health experts. Media production activities, meaning motion…

The Council of the European Union has kept restrictions on travel from the U.S. in place even as it lifts them for 15 other countries including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan and China starting tomorrow, July 1. U.S. film and televison producers have been monitoring the situation closely as some…

Showbiz shares, which were at a high in February before being walloped by COVID-19, have a lot going for them just now, said one Wall Street analyst Monday, heralding the upcoming return of film and TV production and sports, an improved ad outlook and theme parks reopening as reasons to be bullish on the stocks. Over…

After seven years without offering tax incentives for film and TV production, New Jersey is poised to implement aggressive new benefits to producers that would be worth up to $425 million over five years. Proponents and observers of the humming production scene in and around New York City say the move is likely to…

California's lack of strong tax incentives is killing TV production in Los Angeles said FilmL.A. today. "For many years, we've relied on Television to backfill the hole left by the flight of feature film production from the L.A. region. Television has been our bread and butter, but with Sacramento's inaction to stem…

Location filming in Los Angeles was down 15% last week compared with the same time last year, the Los Angeles Times <a…

On-location filming in Los Angeles increased by 15.4% year-over-year during the third quarter, helped in part by eight feature film shoots in the region that were supported by the California Film & Television Tax Credit. The films — which include Warner Bros’ Ben Affleck-directed Argo and period L.A. mob pic Gangster S…