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California lost $8 billion from runaway productions, report estimates

California Secretary of Transportation David S. Kim; Lt. Eleni Kounalakis; General Director for North America at Mexico Ministry of Foreign Relations Roberto Velasco; and Director of Road Development with Communications; and Transportation of Mexico Rogelio Mauricio Rivero signing an agreement to open a new port of entry in Otay Mesa. Kounalakis is pushing a...

California lost out on nearly $8 billion in economic activity, 28,000 jobs and more than $350 million in revenue for state and local coffers from film and TV projects that chose to film elsewhere in recent years.

That’s one of the takeaways in a new report by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation

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