Nolte: Newsom Fail – Film and TV Production Drops 20% in Democrat-Run California

When California was still a Golden State, the idea that movie and television production would film anywhere else was ludicrous.

Unless you were determined to film in the real Rome or the real New York City, everything necessary for your production was right there in California. You had ocean, desert, mountains, small towns, big cities, industry, farming, wineries, and the magic and muscle of the studio, along with its back lot, crews, and visual effects department.

Once upon a time, one of the great things about working in movies and TV was that if you lived in Los Angeles, even if you worked on a New York-set show like Friends or Seinfeld, you could commute from your L.A. home every day.

Those days