L.A. Film and Commercial Production Slides in 2006

Backstage: FilmLA reports the number of on-location shooting days for feature films continued to decline in 2006 and TV commercial production was down for the first time in seven years. According to the nonprofit, production-coordination company's data released today, feature-film production slid 7.4 percent, while commercial production fell 3.4 percent — its first year-to-year decline since SAG and AFTRA's commercials strike ground that industry to a halt in 2000."