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More than $1 billion in annual domestic commercial-production spending—and the associated jobs—has fled to foreign shores, according to a membership survey that will be released later this month by the Association of Independent Commercial Producers.
The study, conducted from July 2002-June 2003, showed that close to one-quarter of commercial jobs that could have been done in the U.S. went abroad instead, said Matt Miller, the New York-based president and CEO of AICP. “When I started as president 10 years ago, I’d guess it was only 10 percent,” said Miller, who estimates total annual spending for the domestic commercial-production business at $5 billion.
Some in the production community blame the drop in domestic production in large part on the Screen Actors Guild commercial strike in 2000, which forced producers to discover new places to shoot.
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