Closure Report for March 22nd
Eric Richardson
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DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES —
It's a very busy Saturday for filming closures, so plan your routes carefully. This weekend's Closure Report is sponsored by A&E, Saturn, Heineken and, most importantly, Dodge.
2nd street tunnel is closed 6am to 10pm for Morton Jankel Zander to film a Saturn ad. The same company is also closing the 4th street freeway (110 to Olive) from 7am to 10pm, for the same ad.
Rogue Films is shooting for A&E in the Historic Core on Saturday. From 7am to 7pm 10am to 2pm the production has full closure of Spring street from 4th to 6th and 5th street from Main to Broadway.
And in the title role, Smuggler is shooting a Dodge ad whose closures kicked in at 7pm this evening and run until 6am on Monday morning. Full closure of 4th from Grand to Broadway, Olive from 3rd to 5th and Hill from 3rd to 5th.
Also, just because it's so light this week, Oil Factory is shooting a Heineken spot that will have a helicopter over the Old Bank District from 7am to 10pm.
whitman lam on March 21, 2008, at 09:28PM – #1
What ever happened to the Film LA Filming Map ?? The one with all the closures mapped downtown. Is it still working, it doesn't seem to work for me. Nothing comes up.
Bert Green on March 21, 2008, at 11:21PM – #2
Correction: The Rogue shoot for A&E has been scaled back to 10 am - 2 pm from 7-7.
Eric Richardson (@blogdowntown) on March 22, 2008, at 08:58AM – #3
Thanks Bert. I just double-checked, and never received an updated email notice on that. I assume that you got it via a printed notification.
Bill on March 22, 2008, at 08:58AM – #4
Giant slip-n-slide on 4th street between Olive and Hill.
steve on March 22, 2008, at 12:40PM – #5
Tried to go and play on the giant slip and slide....not successful. It looks insanely fun, goes almost the entire 4th street hill
Eric Richardson (@blogdowntown) on March 22, 2008, at 01:39PM – #6
If film companies scheduled in that sort of neighborhood fun, one would expect they would get many fewer complaints about closures.
Metro Local on March 22, 2008, at 02:34PM – #7
A giant slip and slide on asphalt!? No thank you -- cold, hard cash for being inconvenienced not ice packs for road rash.
Who is really supposed to be accountable for keeping the impact of filming on Downtown tolerable under the existing LAMC limited the use of private property for commercial filming to "infrequent"?
It seems obvious FilmLA lacks dedication to this task. If they were serious they would have adopted or sponsored pro-active mechanisms like Dave Bullock's volunteer notification map that would make tracking offending property owners (including parking lots) transparent to all.
Instead, FilmLA seems to bury that data making enforcement of the LAMC dependent on frustrated neighbors and communities who get educated on how the existing law of the City of Los Angeles already limits over-filming.
Anyone renting their property out for the purposes of commercial filming, including helicopter landings for filming, more than six times a year may be in violation of the LAMC and should be reported to the Code Enforcement section of the Department of Building and Safety.
Metro Local on March 22, 2008, at 03:25PM – #8
Heineken -- because flying in helicopters over dense population buzzed on imported beer is fun.
Eric Richardson (@blogdowntown) on March 22, 2008, at 03:29PM – #9
The city is "supposed to be", but certainly no department considers that part of their actual responsibilities.
Though it hasn't moved forward very actively, I would say that the filming RFP process looks to be the real hope for making changes.
Metro Local on March 22, 2008, at 03:44PM – #10
Wouldn't the CAO be responsible as they contracted out this function to FilmLA with Council approval?