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Ugly Betty moves; 300+ Angelenos lose jobs

Posted By Annika Barranti On May 8, 2008 @ 2:01 pm In Filmmaking/Filmmakers | Comments Disabled

New York has introduced tax incentives to get film crews to shoot there. Which is great! For New York. Apparently Los Angeles has no such incentives (which I find incredibly hard to believe, as I know the studios themselves get all sorts of insane tax breaks), and Ugly Betty is the first production to announce that it will be moving East.

The Los Angeles-based crew is laid off and pissed off, and they’re expressing their anger in an ad that will run in tomorrow’s Variety, sponsored by vendors who are losing Ugly Betty’s business. From the ad:

Instead of making good wages and paying our fair share of California state income tax, we will all be collecting Unemployment Benefits. In addition, we will certainly be cutting our spending back to the bone, which will not only cut back our sales tax contributions substantially, but it could end up costing the jobs of the people who provide services and products to us. Not only are these crew positions being lost; all of our local vendors are losing our business.

Full ad text and further commentary at Deadline Hollywood ^[1]. Via Watchers Watch ^[2] (formerly Writers Strike).

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[1] Deadline Hollywood: http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/unemployed-ugly-betty-crew-blame-schwarzenegger-for-shows-move-to-nyc/

[2] Watchers Watch: http://twitter.com/watcherswatch

[3] Betty Blue Director’s Cut–Two More Nights: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/07/08/betty-blue-directors-cut-two-more-nights/

[4] An Ugly Utopia: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/09/25/an-ugly-utopia/

[5] Auto Manufacturing Jobs returning to the Valley?: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/05/20/auto-manufacturing-jobs-returning-to-the-valley/

[6] GOOD Magazine moves to survive: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/06/09/good-magazine-moves-to-survive/

[7] Sunset Junction destruction: Are we about to lose the heart of Silver Lake to a developer’s wrecking ball?: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/02/04/sunset-junction-destruction-are-we-about-to-lose-the-heart-of-silver-lake-to-a-developers-wrecking-ball/

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