75 Days and $18.87 Million: The Economic Impact of One Film
Due to the popularity of an earlier post about the economic impact of one film that spent $20.2 million over 93 days filming in Los Angeles in 2009, we decided to make a series out of it. This is the second post in the series.
From April to June 2010, this one major motion picture filmed in Los Angeles and spent $18,873,528 over 75 days. For confidentiality reasons, the name of the name of the film has been withheld. The following is a detailed breakdown of how that money was spent:
| Hotel room days: 291 |
$28,401 |
| Car rental days: 364 |
$15,640 |
| Catering, bakery goods & other food items |
$510,050 |
| Hardware & lumber supplies |
$234,302 |
| Secretarial personnel, equipment (Xerox, phones etc) |
$310,568 |
| Local wardrobe purchased |
$354,884 |
| Dry cleaning |
$34,076 |
| Gasoline |
$135,040 |
| Location fees public |
$181,661 |
| Location fees private |
$1,379,472 |
| City, county and other governmental permit fees |
$6,800 |
| Off-duty personnel (police, fire etc) |
$121,604 |
| Local extras hired |
$895,641 |
| Local security hired |
$165,770 |
| Per Diem payments |
$117,948 |
| Local hires (carpenters, electricians etc.) |
$11,812,526 |
| Other rentals |
$1,722,773 |
| Other purchases: |
$846,382 |
| GRAND TOTAL SPENT: |
$18,873,538 |
Days on location:
Prep/construction: 51; Shoot: 53; Wrap/strike: 25
Overall shoot days at all locations for project: 75
Number of Local Hires:
Cast:56; Crew: 619; Extras (in man/days): 2776
Clearly, the economic impact of just a portion of the spending for one major film has a massive impact that ripples throughout the California economy. Moreover, because of the deep infrastructure, over 92% of all money spent is sourced right here in California. The next time you see a shoot taking place in your community, please try and remember how much Film Works for California.
Pretty cool series. and an 18mil isn’t even considered that big of a budget and it’s amazing how many people it employed.
Thanks Mikey. We agree. Outside of having a convention come into town, we are hard pressed to name another industry that spends so much money for so many different services in a short period of time in just one place. Multiply this by the 273 films (shot either partially or entirely) and the 254 television series the MPAA said filmed in California in 2010, and the economic impact becomes even more astonishing. It’s like having hundreds of conventions over and over every year. Most people don’t understand the breathtaking amount of capital California is losing out on when films and shows go somewhere else. Part of the purpose of the campaign is to help educate them. Please share this and spread the word.