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08.06.2023 - 19:51 / deadline.com
The number of shooting permits issued by New York City fell sharply in May from previous months, and from the year earlier amid a WGA strike and uncertainty over contracts for other guilds.
Some 549 permits were issued for 188 projects last month, according data from the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment. That was down from 662 permits for 187 projects in April, and 679 permits for 135 projects in March across the five boroughs. A year ago, in May of 2022, MOME issued 801 shooting permits for 227 projects.
In a 2021 economic impact report, MOME said filmed entertainment supported about 185,000 jobs, $18 billion in wages and nearly $82 billion in total economic output in 2019. That was pre-Covid, the industry has been clawing its way out.
Talks with the WGA have been stalled since writers went on strike in early May. SAG-AFTRA is negotiating. The DGA signed a deal with the AMPTP and has sent it out for members to ratify.
As the writers’ strike took hold, MOME held a live webinar on May 19 month for workers impacted by with reps from the city’s unemployment insurance, small business and freelancers’ hub fielding questions. The event had over 1,000 views and the office is planning two more this month, one focusing on resources for individuals, the other for businesses.
Ironically, the latest New York State budget under Gov. Kathy Hochul just sweetened tax incentives to attract production, passing on May 3, the day after the WGA went on strike.
Last week, more than 50 Democratic members of the New York state legislature, reminded the AMPTP that companies it represents are the beneficiaries of “hundreds of millions of dollars in tax credits” every year and called on the studios to return to the bargaining
Angelina Jolie enjoyed a night on the town with her kids!
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woke up to find their cities engulfed in smoke,which as the day progressed turned into a hazy, deep orange sky— a result of the smoke traveling south from ongoing wildfires in Nova Scotia, Canada. With the Manhattan skyline and its landmarks eerily disappearing into the yellow fog, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation issued an air quality health advisory through Thursday, citing "unhealthy" quality levels, which have now been deemed the worst of any city in the world, according to according to IQAir, a Swiss monitoring service.
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Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Filming permit requests for TV and film projects in New York City were down 13% in April and 31.5% in May as the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike raged on, Variety has confirmed. According to information obtained by Variety, 760 requested shooting permits were issued to 177 projects by the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment in 2022, and 801 permits were granted to 227 projects in May last year. Comparatively, only 662 shooting permits were issued to 187 projects this April and 549 permits to 181 projects in May. The writers strike began May 2, following the WGA’s inability to ink a new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) before the previous agreement expired May 1. Between April and May, the filming permits requested for shoots in NYC fell 17%, while in 2022 they had increased just over 5% between the two months.
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