On-location film production in Greater Los Angeles slipped 4.7 percent between April and June, 2017 to 9,466 shoot days (SD), according to an update from FilmL.A. Local on-location feature production decreased 18.5 percent (1,067 SD) in the second quarter.
“Declines in any category need to be put in context: the year-to-date comparison for the last seven years shows 2017 is second only to 2016 for total shoot days,” said FilmL.A. president Paul Audley, who noted that 2016 was the best year on record for on-location production.
TV comedy dropped nine percent (to 382 SD), and digital Web-Based TV also fell 21.8 percent (to 412 SD). Despite the drops in comedy and TV Web, a comparison of the year-to-date data for the first two quarters over the last seven years reveals both categories are at record highs thus far in 2017.
TV reality production saw a slight drop of one percent for the quarter (to 1285 SD). TV pilots fell sharply for the quarter, dropping 60.4 percent (to 110 SD). The drop in TV pilot production mirrors the results of FilmL.A.’s forthcoming 2017 Pilot Study, which shows fewer pilots were ordered by networks over the last year. As a result, production centers from L.A. to New York saw declines in the category.
TV drama production fell 24.3 percent (to 789 SD) due to several show cancellations in 2017. TV dramas that helped drive production numbers during the second quarter of 2016 that were not in production in 2017 include Gilmore Girls, Good Girls Revolt, Hand of God, Mistresses, Roadies, Sweet/Vicious and The Catch. The TV drama category is having its third best year of the last seven, trailing 2016 and 2015 year to date.
FilmL.A.’s report reveals that the commercials category saw a 12.5 percent jump (to 1,398 SD).
Incentivized projects continued to add to quarterly counts. Incentivized TV dramas yielded 291 production days or 37 percent of the category with the TV pilot yield being 57 SD or 52 percent of the category. Incentivized television projects for the second quarter were Heathers, Here, Now, Law & Order True Crime, Major Crimes, The Orville, Sharp Objects, Shooter and American Horror Story.
Feature film projects produced 232 shoot days accounting for 22 percent of production in the category. Incentivized features for the quarter were Valley Girl, A Star Is Born, Inner City and Hotel Artemis.
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More