Los Angeles County on Thursday issued extensive regulations for a staged resumption of film and TV production. The rules allow for productions to resume as soon as Friday, although in reality most …
The rules also say that actors should apply their own makeup, if possible. Craft service buffets are forbidden, and food service is required to be single-serving only.which was issued last week. The white paper used language like “whenever possible,” and “consider options,” while the county’s order uses the words “must” and “shall.”
“On behalf of all us at NBCUniversal, we thank the County Board of Supervisors and Mayor Garcetti for their continued commitment to the economic recovery of our region, and the County Public Health Department for their tireless efforts to help protect the health of our community,” Langley said.
Another obstacle is whether productions will be able to obtain insurance. Those productions that were underway in March, or were about to get underway, should be able to resume under their old insurance policies. Those policies — which cover interruptions in production due to “imminent peril” and an order from a “civil authority” — should even cover some of the additional costs required to make productions safer, says Bob Jellen, managing director for entertainment at HUB International.
But any new productions — that had not obtained insurance by early March — are going to find it difficult or impossible to obtain coverage for future COVID-19 shutdowns. That could make it difficult especially for independent filmmakers to get bank financing, and could impede production even at some of the smaller studios.
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