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Jaanus Silla

2004-06-19 00:50:18

Valenti defends U.S. production abroad

In this subject I want to agree with him, I think the runaway issue is over dramatized, and the worries rise mostly from the guilds, as they probably lose out most? "Hollywood Reporter - www.hollywoodreporter.com April 19, 2004 Valenti defends U.S. production abroad Responding to a letter from Rep. Diane Watson, MPAA chief Jack Valenti defended the rights of his member companies to shoot outside the United States and presented statistics that paint the current state of the U.S. film industry as salutary. Watson, D-Calif., asked MPAA chief Jack Valenti and his member companies this month to step in and thwart the trend of runaway film and television production to foreign locales and singled out Universal's "Cinderella Man" -- scheduled to shoot in Canada -- as a case in point. In his four-page missive, Valenti wrote that during the last 70 years, American producers have gone to various foreign locations for myriad reasons, including the geographic site of the script, the time period in which the film is set, access to a nation's military and the ethnic makeup of the cast. (Peter Kiefer)"

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