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They do! Except my sister and I are APs, so it didn't make much of a difference anyway.
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If you want to get the most time in the park that you can, try for one of the 10am or 12pm tapings.
This is assuming they let you in the park... I wonder if they let people in after certain tapings but not after others.
I'm sure this isn't much help since I'm answering something about two weeks old, but when I went to a 5pm taping on August 2, they created two exit lines. One line is for people without a park ticket and the other for tickets. They had a handheld scanner to verify the tickets. Those without tickets were escorted out the park. The taping ended at 8pm and the park closed at 9pm that day, but they still forced people out that didn't have tickets.
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This is helpful, thanks! I’m going to a 10am taping this week and was wondering if they’d let us in th Park after. Guess not
'David Makes Man' is setting up a moderately sizable set over at Doctor Phillips HS. Parts of the shows, which wills air on OWN, will also be filmed in the USF Sound Stages and post-production will take place there as well.
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Went to the taping of Deal or No Deal yesterday. I’m not sure if they did this at all the other shows, but the stilt walker mummies, Optimus Prime, and Blue all made appearances during different segments of the show
They were taping a "Holiday Episode" yesterday, so that could've been what that was for.
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USF and DHS are living memory of when Orlando was supposed to be “Hollywood East”. Now the state doesn’t even offer incentives to film there.
USF Production Group does seem like they’ve had an uptick in actual production lately though.
I remember when Sun City was going to be h'wood east. It was for a couple of years and remnants still exist
Nah, those are show pieces. They put them up simply for show... they're there everyday at one point or another. If it's REAL production, it will be the metal barricades with a cover over them that says basically the same thing as those stanchions.
Difference is Entertainment is in charge of the ones you pictured while Events Ops and USF Production is in charge of making sure barricades are out for real production.
TBS' Drop The Mic will be filming along the CityWalk waterfront on Monday, October 29th and Tuesday, October 30th. The Celebrity guests will be NE-YO, Mike Colter, Ashlee Simpson, Christina Milian on the 29th and Kelly Osbourne, Jack Osbourne, Mel B, La La Anthony on the 30th.
IMPORTANT: If you are interested in seeing this taping, be aware that it has an 18+ age restriction.
From UOTeam:
TBS's Drop the Mic is a comic battle rap competition series based on the popular segment from The Late Late Show with James Corden and hosted by Method Man and Hailey Baldwin. Celebrities from the worlds of entertainment, music, sports and pop culture will face off in a rap battle royale packed with "I can't believe they just said that" moments. At the end of each head-to-head battle, Method Man picks the winner.
Shows will begin at 7:00pm on Monday October 29 and Tuesday, October 30. Team Members interested in free tickets to be a part of the audience can sign up at Free Tickets to Drop the Mic - 1iota.com.
IMPORTANT: If you are interested in seeing this taping, be aware that it has an 18+ age restriction.
From UOTeam:
TBS's Drop the Mic is a comic battle rap competition series based on the popular segment from The Late Late Show with James Corden and hosted by Method Man and Hailey Baldwin. Celebrities from the worlds of entertainment, music, sports and pop culture will face off in a rap battle royale packed with "I can't believe they just said that" moments. At the end of each head-to-head battle, Method Man picks the winner.
Shows will begin at 7:00pm on Monday October 29 and Tuesday, October 30. Team Members interested in free tickets to be a part of the audience can sign up at Free Tickets to Drop the Mic - 1iota.com.
Florida lawmakers are trying to bring more production back to the state. This could be good news for Universal:
Will film production ever return to Florida?
A new bill would let counties dip into tourism funds
By Steven Lemongello Orlando Sentinel
State Sen. Linda Stewart wants to bring back incentives for film and TV production in Florida – and she wants to use tourist tax money to do it.
“All our movies and all our filming has gone to Georgia or Louisiana, and they’re making a fortune,” said Stewart, D-Orlando. “Films and movies are huge economic drivers.”
The bill, S726, filed Tuesday, would allow counties to use the 6 percent tax charged on short-term rentals, mostly hotels and motels, to “promote or incentivize film or television productions in this state.”
The definition of “production” in Florida’s statutes also includes video games, meaning incentives could also go toward companies such as EA Sports in Maitland.
Kelly Paige, past president of film and TV production association Film Florida, stressed the bill isn’t a traditional sales tax exemption, but “only gives [productions] the opportunity to present each case individually, on its own merit,” to county boards.
In 2018, Orange County alone took in about $280 million in tourist development taxes, or TDT, and revenue from the tax has paid for the Orange County Convention Center, the Amway Center, Citrus Bowl renovations, the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, and Visit Orlando, the area’s main tourism promoter.
In Orange County, the Tourist Development Council advises commissioners on TDT spending. Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings and Visit Orlando did not return requests for comment.
“If Leonardo DiCaprio wants to come down and film a $130 million film in the area and take five months doing so, this gives counties the opportunity to use a minimum investment on a very big return,” Paige said. “It gives them the opportunity to pitch the project to county commissions … they’d have to have all the numbers lined up – this number of hotel nights, rental cars, dry cleaning.”
Florida needs the help, she said. “We’re dying out here.”
While a few TV productions are filmed in Orlando, including “Deal or No Deal” and “Family Feud” at Universal Studios Orlando and “David Makes Man”, an OWN series filmed in Central Florida in 2018, film and TV production has started to dry up since the state’s tax exemptions for productions expired in 2016.
The former statewide program, which provided sales and use tax exemptions on production-related purchases in Florida, had already used up the $296 million in tax credits it was allocated by 2015 and was suspended that year.
Meanwhile, production of TV shows and films such as “Stranger Things,” “The Walking Dead” and the Marvel Cinematic Universe films has been booming in Georgia, largely thanks to its generous tax credits of up to 30 percent.
Louisiana, which saw a huge dip in film and TV production after a similar incentive program was capped in 2015, has also seen an upturn since the laws were modified, the New Orleans Advocate reported last year. In 2018, Channing Tatum’s X-Men film “Gambit” and Tom Hanks’ World War II drama “Greyhound” were filmed in the state, the Advocate reported.
Paige pointed to “Paper Towns,” a 2015 film based on a young adult novel by former Orlando resident John Green.
“It was an Orlando writer, it took place in Orlando, and it wasn’t filmed there,” Paige said, instead being shot in North Carolina. She said another $75 million production also passed on filling in Central Florida because of the lack of exemptions.
Film Florida plans to introduce its own proposal during the upcoming legislative session, what Paige called a “very conservative” grant program that would work on a similar level statewide.
In the meantime, “I love this bill,” she said. “It would at least get things going and get us started again.”
But skeptics of film incentives, including Andres Malave with Americans for Prosperity-Florida, criticized what they have called the “corporate welfare” of giving tax money to businesses.
A state Office of Economic and Demographic Research report from 2018, he said, showed a return on investment of just 18 cents on the dollar for the state’s use tax exemption program for the entertainment industry and 58 cents on the dollar for the sales tax exemption.
Malave said his group has talked to film industry representatives to find ways of helping filming “other than cash injections from taxpayers. .. Are regulations we can cut in any way? All taxpayers can ultimately benefit from that.”
The Central Florida Hotel and Lodging Association had been opposed to other changes in TDT funding. In 2018, the group successfully lobbied to exempt Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties from being able to spend TDT revenues on roads and other capital projects.
The association did not return a request for comment Tuesday.
“This is another opportunity they should reconsider,” Stewart said of the association. “In a year-round state, where the weather is perfect, they really should be supportive of film and movie production.”
Staff writer Marco Santana contributed to this report.
slemongello@orlandosentinel.com, 407-418-5920, @stevelemongello, facebook/stevelemongello
Will film production ever return to Florida?
A new bill would let counties dip into tourism funds
By Steven Lemongello Orlando Sentinel
State Sen. Linda Stewart wants to bring back incentives for film and TV production in Florida – and she wants to use tourist tax money to do it.
“All our movies and all our filming has gone to Georgia or Louisiana, and they’re making a fortune,” said Stewart, D-Orlando. “Films and movies are huge economic drivers.”
The bill, S726, filed Tuesday, would allow counties to use the 6 percent tax charged on short-term rentals, mostly hotels and motels, to “promote or incentivize film or television productions in this state.”
The definition of “production” in Florida’s statutes also includes video games, meaning incentives could also go toward companies such as EA Sports in Maitland.
Kelly Paige, past president of film and TV production association Film Florida, stressed the bill isn’t a traditional sales tax exemption, but “only gives [productions] the opportunity to present each case individually, on its own merit,” to county boards.
In 2018, Orange County alone took in about $280 million in tourist development taxes, or TDT, and revenue from the tax has paid for the Orange County Convention Center, the Amway Center, Citrus Bowl renovations, the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, and Visit Orlando, the area’s main tourism promoter.
In Orange County, the Tourist Development Council advises commissioners on TDT spending. Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings and Visit Orlando did not return requests for comment.
“If Leonardo DiCaprio wants to come down and film a $130 million film in the area and take five months doing so, this gives counties the opportunity to use a minimum investment on a very big return,” Paige said. “It gives them the opportunity to pitch the project to county commissions … they’d have to have all the numbers lined up – this number of hotel nights, rental cars, dry cleaning.”
Florida needs the help, she said. “We’re dying out here.”
While a few TV productions are filmed in Orlando, including “Deal or No Deal” and “Family Feud” at Universal Studios Orlando and “David Makes Man”, an OWN series filmed in Central Florida in 2018, film and TV production has started to dry up since the state’s tax exemptions for productions expired in 2016.
The former statewide program, which provided sales and use tax exemptions on production-related purchases in Florida, had already used up the $296 million in tax credits it was allocated by 2015 and was suspended that year.
Meanwhile, production of TV shows and films such as “Stranger Things,” “The Walking Dead” and the Marvel Cinematic Universe films has been booming in Georgia, largely thanks to its generous tax credits of up to 30 percent.
Louisiana, which saw a huge dip in film and TV production after a similar incentive program was capped in 2015, has also seen an upturn since the laws were modified, the New Orleans Advocate reported last year. In 2018, Channing Tatum’s X-Men film “Gambit” and Tom Hanks’ World War II drama “Greyhound” were filmed in the state, the Advocate reported.
Paige pointed to “Paper Towns,” a 2015 film based on a young adult novel by former Orlando resident John Green.
“It was an Orlando writer, it took place in Orlando, and it wasn’t filmed there,” Paige said, instead being shot in North Carolina. She said another $75 million production also passed on filling in Central Florida because of the lack of exemptions.
Film Florida plans to introduce its own proposal during the upcoming legislative session, what Paige called a “very conservative” grant program that would work on a similar level statewide.
In the meantime, “I love this bill,” she said. “It would at least get things going and get us started again.”
But skeptics of film incentives, including Andres Malave with Americans for Prosperity-Florida, criticized what they have called the “corporate welfare” of giving tax money to businesses.
A state Office of Economic and Demographic Research report from 2018, he said, showed a return on investment of just 18 cents on the dollar for the state’s use tax exemption program for the entertainment industry and 58 cents on the dollar for the sales tax exemption.
Malave said his group has talked to film industry representatives to find ways of helping filming “other than cash injections from taxpayers. .. Are regulations we can cut in any way? All taxpayers can ultimately benefit from that.”
The Central Florida Hotel and Lodging Association had been opposed to other changes in TDT funding. In 2018, the group successfully lobbied to exempt Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties from being able to spend TDT revenues on roads and other capital projects.
The association did not return a request for comment Tuesday.
“This is another opportunity they should reconsider,” Stewart said of the association. “In a year-round state, where the weather is perfect, they really should be supportive of film and movie production.”
Staff writer Marco Santana contributed to this report.
slemongello@orlandosentinel.com, 407-418-5920, @stevelemongello, facebook/stevelemongello
Yup, I went to one of the taping there for it and I’m pretty sure that was 2010 or so. There has been other stuff taping there though.
The incentives are key. Pittsburgh and western Pa. has a significant amount of movie and TV filming here. But it waxes and wains in direct proportion to the incentives the state provides. The legislature has changed the formula a few times, and production generally has dropped drastically when the incentives were lacking. But it prospers when the incentives have been sweetened.
