New fresh stains red carpet for filmmakers in New York

NEW YORK - The high cost of film production companies that choose to work in some buildings in New York without a clear effect of word, whether it hurt the popularity of the city as one of the most popular scenes d taken Hollywood. One critic called the day price of $ 3200 for a permit to film in one of the buildings of the city with the highest fee in the nation by a municipality. But the city, which attracts approximately 5 billion U.S. dollars in business each year through the exchange of films, it stands as a small increase affects a small portion of production to a place that has long been one of the locations in a friendly country. The city has had the charge over the summer, he seemed to be more costs to cover the film, according to Marybeth Ihle, spokesman for the Office of the Mayor of Film, Theater and Broadcasting. The tax came into force on Wednesday. "Private entities can be $ 10,000 per day in calculus, it is very symbolic," she said, adding that the fee covers only about 5 percent of production, such as films scenes in New York City. One of the biggest users of the buildings in the city, the long series "Law & Order", which is in the courthouse and other buildings in the city often filmed. NBC Universal did not immediately respond to a call for comment on reports that the show might try to shoot a few scenes in other cities. "The thing itself does not drive production outside the city," said John Johnston, executive director of the New York Production Alliance, which is more than half the 100,000 workers in New York of the film, television and commercial production industry. But he said he voted against the fees at a public hearing this year, as it would create a dangerous precedent that other city agencies also cause costs that can be jointly set lead to go to production in other parts of the movies. Ihle said the city has developed since the 1960s to make it more comfortable shooting in the city, including the provision of free places to shoot scenes in the streets of the city. She said it does not allow for the police, or to pay parking and covers many of the administrative costs associated with films. She said the production, receive discounts on the purchase of everything from hotels to the Lumberyard of restaurants with a tax credit equal to 5 percent, and free advertising on bus shelters, where their production is ready to be announced. The town was so friendly that the volume of films produced in the city increased over the past ten years, "she said. Mark Daly, a spokesman for the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, said building in the city are popular places for have used photographs to productions, the last 160 years. With so much fire can be hundreds of thousands of dollars with the new rate increase. Johnston said that the tax is unlikely that producers of films or television programs to be frightened, but she can to film students, small independent filmmakers and the driver turned to television series lead to search elsewhere. Daly said he had no sense for the city vary the cost of the permit depends on the size of the production. Administrative costs "are the same, regardless of the size of production, he said.