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LOS ANGELES Despite a short-term rise in local commercial production, the Los Angeles Economic Development Corp. forecast for 2004 issued yesterday was grim.
“The state of the production community is troubled,” commented Jack Kyser, LAEDC chief economist. “Runaway production, piracy and now the prospect of a WGA, SAG and AFTRA strike. Thank God the commercial contract is not up [for renewal].”
The Screen Actors Guild commercial contract, which halted production from May to October 2000, is in effect through October 2006, said Pamm Fair, deputy national executive director, SAG, Los Angeles.
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