NYC Does Not [Heart] Video Pirates
by Elizabeth Woyke
Metro New York-May 21, 2007
"On May 1, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, proclaiming that "video piracy is not a victimless crime," upped the penalty for illegal camcording. Until now, secret tapers faced just a summons, up to a $250 fine, and the remote possibility of a 15-day jail sentence. Now they could be hit with a misdemeanor charge that could mean as much as six months in jail and a $5,000 fine. And under the new law, the police can use eyewitness accounts—from a cinema employee, for instance—to make arrests. The MPAA will lend a helping hand by supplying training manuals for the NYPD and passing on leads about bootleggers. The campaign is also urging New Yorkers to walk on by when they see stacks of illegal DVDs being sold on the street. Public service ads slated for TV and movie theaters will use mock film ratings to remind viewers that the quality of pirated films is pretty poor."
Lights, Camera, Cash - Film Industry Is Booming Thanks to
City Incentives
by Michael P. Ventura
Metro New York-
November 2, 2006
Commissioner Katherine Oliver on the benefits of filming in New York City
Michael Bloomberg: Thanks to the media-mogul-turned
mayor, New York City is a bigger star than ever
by Mark
Robichaux
Broadcasting & Cable - October 23,
2006
“Bloomberg breathed new life into the Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting. Under this mayor, film and television production is thriving in New York
City... Mayor Bloomberg and his office of television and film have done an incredible job helping producers in New York,’ says Dick Wolf, executive producer of the wildly popular “Law & Order” shows, three of which are being filmed in New York this season.
‘Their tax incentives have been instrumental in attracting new projects and
keeping existing projects here.’”
Hollywood Brings Its Cameras To a New New
York
by Bradley Hope
The New York Sun - October 19,
2006
"A dozen studio owners, directors, and others in the film industry
said in interviews that the tax cuts implemented for filmmakers in 2005 have
been a major accelerant of growth for the film industry. Before the tax
cuts, which were put forward by the Councilmember David Yassky, a Democrat of
Brooklyn, and supported by Mayor Bloomberg, the city had difficulty competing
with cities like Toronto and Los Angeles, they said...One observer said hte city
was entering a period similar to the golden era of filmmaking that followed the
creation of the Mayor's Office of Film, Television and Broadcast by Mayor Lindsay in 1966."
A Celebration of Real New
York Movies - The Ones That Actually Shot Here
by
New York Magazine staff
New York Magazine- October 16,
2006
A Celebration of Real New York City Movies - The Ones That Actually Shot Here
How to Grow Apple Shoots
by Diane
Clehane
Variety- October 15, 2006
“Under [Film Commissioner Katherine] Oliver's
leadership, an office that had until that point been using typewriters and
processing permits by hand became an advocacy center for film and filmmakers. In
short order, everything was computerized, and a major outreach campaign was
launched to studios to trumpet the city’s free permits, locations, parking and
police details. When Sydney Pollack was in pre-production for The
Interpreter, he asked the MOFTB to help him gain access to shoot inside the United Nations. Due in large part to an intensive lobbying effort by Bloomberg and Oliver, Pollack got approval -- a filmmaking first.”
'Law & Order' on City Streets
by Julie
Lindeen
Variety - October 15, 2006
“No matter how complex the idea, the MOFTB ‘rarely gives a flat-out no,’ says John Roman, producer of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent." ‘[The Mayor’s] Office has come through even with seemingly outrageous requests.’”
Budding Crop of Filmmakers Get Office
Help
by Anthony Kaufman
Variety -
October 15, 2006
“Calling from the set of a Robitussin commercial, recent grad Kevin De la Cruz is thrilled with the [Production Assistant] program. ‘I wasn't having luck looking for work online,’ he says. Now just a few months out of the program, De la Cruz and his classmates have ‘hit the ground running,’ he says, having worked on Showtime's "White Boyz in the Hood" as well as a number of commercials and indie features.”
Want To Be in Showbusiness? Here's a
Start
by Joseph Fried
The New York Times - July 12, 2006
“A major goal of the course, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has said, is to ‘introduce greater diversity’ among the workers in the city’s film and television production industry, which some critics say has too few women and members of minority groups, especially in the higher-paying jobs…All 32 people who have successfully completed the city’s [Production Assistant] program have been placed by it in at least one job, and most have worked regularly as production assistants since graduating.”
Top 10 Places to Shoot in the U.S.
by P3
Production Update Staff
P3 Production Update - July
2006
“The newly formed “Made in NY” incentive
program has dramatically lowered the cost of production in New York City. As a
result of the new incentive program the city is retaining productions that are
set in New York and even attracting new productions that [have] doubled for
cities such as Boston in Martin Scorsese’s The Departed.”
Keep
the Cameras Rolling! "Made in NY" Tax Credit Program Expanded
by
Kenneth Adams, as quoted by Leticia Theodore
Brooklyn's Progress - June/July
2006
“Fundamental to [New York City’s] success is this tax credit program because it allows us to compete with lower cost cities and states as well as Canada.”
Mayor to Boost Tax Incentives
by Robert Riddell
Variety - May 10, 2006
“[Harvey] Weinstein also feted the impact of
the incentives, noting there was no doubt that [The Nanny] Diaries
would have lensed in Canada had it not been for the tax cuts.
‘This is one of the best things any government has done for its economy,’ he
said.”
Where the Anchors Sit When Tune Stops
by Cindy
Adams
The New York Post- April 28,
2006
“New York is experiencing the most film
production ever. A 35% increase over last year. George Clooney’s Michael
Clayton, set for cheapo Toronto, switched here because of the Mayor’s tax incentive.”
Boom
Town
by Billie Cohen
Time Out New York -
April 20 - 26, 2006
Feature on Filming Influx in New York City and Sustainability of This Increase
Gotham Woos Pix
by
Ian Mohr
Variety- April 15,
2006
“Gotham has become more friendly to producers than Los Angeles. In
L.A, some 'hoods are off-limits to moviemakers. The Big Apple allows cameras to
roll in all neighborhoods and at any historic location. It doesn't charge for
permits or primo locales and assigns police protection -- two cops for every
eight hours of shooting -- for no charge...One Hollywood player
in Gotham for meetings last week scanned the space-age dining area of the
Brasserie. ‘Y'know,’ he said, ‘whenever we'd see a script set in New York, we'd
immediately say that'd we'd double with Toronto. Now with these tax incentives,
it's not true. And you look at a film like...Inside Man. New York is a
part of that movie the way that Los Angeles is part of Collateral.”
I'll Take Manhattan
by
Marcia A. Cole
NYWICI Matrix -
April 3, 2006
Commissioner Katherine Oliver Profiled as a Recipient of a MATRIX Award
New York City Woos Movies & TV
Series
by Sara Kugler
Associated Press- March 12, 2006
“‘It has truly brought New York to a new level of life,’ said Alan Suna, CEO of Silvercup Studios, one of the city’s top production facilities. ‘I don’t want to say resurrected, because resurrected means you were dead first and rose from the ashes, but work was diminishing, and the tax cut program has changed that dramatically.’”
Production Awakened in the City That Never
Sleeps
by Elizabeth Guider
Variety - January 5, 2006
“New York City has, over the last 15 years, benefited to the tune of $750 million from the local shooting of the various installments of the NBC primetime juggernaut [“Law and Order”]…Easily over $1 billion in direct and indirect revenues has flowed into the city from the franchise…One of the people directly responsible for the recent upsurge in these stats is Katherine Oliver, Commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting.”
City
Hall and Summer Play Festival to Sponsor Four Theatre Panels in 2006
by
Robert Simonson
Playbill - January 3, 2006
The Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting and the Summer Play Festival Announce Panels for Careers in the Theatre Industry
Top 10 American Cities To
Be a Moviemaker
by Jennifer M. Wood with Lily
Percy
Moviemaker - Winter, 2006
New York City Listed as #1 Place for Independent Filmmakers
While MOFTB facilitates filming on over 300 square miles of cinematic city locations, here is a look at MOFTB on camera - and in the headlines! Click the links to see the Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting in the news!...
