Film and TV productions are still fleeing California en masse thanks to the high taxes and unfavorable working conditions for the productions, and nothing Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom can do seems to be stopping the exodus.
Productions have been steadily leaving California for more than a decade as costs have made filing in Los Angeles or elsewhere in California prohibitive, and the recent devastating fires in L.A. have only made matters worse.
Locations elsewhere in the U.S. have been the happy recipient of entertainment productions as Las Vegas, Chicago, and the states of Georgia and New Mexico, among many others, have benefited greatly from the influx of filmmakers. But productions outside the U.S. have also been reaping the rewards.
As the New York Times recently reported, actor Rob Lowe moved the production of his game show, The Floor, from L.A. to Dublin, Ireland, because, in his words, it is “cheaper to bring a hundred American people to Ireland than to walk across the lot at Fox, right past the soundstages and do it there.”
Lowe also blasted California and L.A. for the situation, saying, “it’s criminal what California and LA have let happen. It’s criminal. Everybody should be fired.”