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The incident happened Saturday afternoonmore>> The incident happened Saturday afternoonmore>> 1500 jobs could be in jeopardy if the Algiers-Canal Street ferry goes out of service because of lack of funding. That's according to a local non-profit who recently surveyed riders.more>> 1500 jobs could be in jeopardy if the Algiers-Canal Street ferry goes out of service because of lack of funding. That's according to a local non-profit who recently surveyed riders.more>> The battle to recall St. Tammany Parish Coroner, Dr. Peter Galvan is heating up in a major way.more>> The battle to recall St. Tammany Parish Coroner, Dr. Peter Galvan is heating up in a major way.more>> Police are investigating two fatal shootings that left a 37-year-old man dead in Central City and a 20 -year-old man dead in the Florida area.more>> Police are investigating two fatal shootings that left a 37-year-old man dead in Central City and a 20 -year-old man dead in the Florida area.more>> The New Orleans Police Department is investigating a shooting in the 1200 block of Horace Street that killed a woman Friday night.more>> The New Orleans Police Department is investigating a shooting in the 1200 block of Horace Street that killed a woman Friday night.more>> Lafourche Parish is preparing to begin more than $6 million in flood protection projects for the Raceland and Des Allemands areas.more>> Lafourche Parish is preparing to begin more than $6 million in flood protection projects for the Raceland and Des Allemands areas.more>> Baton Rouge's police chief says it was a mistake not to take everyone to jail accused in the beating of a family at a gas station.
more>> Baton Rouge's police chief says it was a mistake not to take everyone to jail accused in the beating of a family at a gas station.
more>> New Orleans officials and cultural advocates say the Mother's Day parade shootings that left 20 people injured won't spell the end of second-line parades, the local tradition that celebrates the city and its people.more>> New Orleans officials and cultural advocates say the Mother's Day parade shootings that left 20 people injured won't spell the end of second-line parades, the local tradition that celebrates the city and its people.more>> The shooting death of a whooping crane has Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agents and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials asking for help from the public.
more>> The shooting death of a whooping crane has Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agents and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials asking for help from the public.
more>> FOX 8 obtained a copy of a pre-trial services report on one of the suspected gunmen in the Mother's Day shooting.more>> FOX 8 obtained a copy of a pre-trial services report on one of the suspected gunmen in the Mother's Day shooting.more>>
New Orleans, La. - Film New Orleans within the Mayor's Office of Cultural Economy announced that 2012 was a record-breaking year for New Orleans-based filming, with a 23% increase in spending for tax credit film projects (TV, films and commercials with budgets over $300,000). Year-end projections for 2012 show $669.8 million in direct spending for 61 tax credit projects in New Orleans, which compares to $544 million in direct spending for 46 tax credit projects in 2011.
Notable projects filmed in New Orleans in 2012 included Django Unchained, starring Jamie Foxx and Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Quentin Tarantino; Now You See Me, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Mark Ruffalo; the third and fourth seasons of HBO's Treme, starring New Orleans native Wendell Pierce; and Empire State, starring Dwayne Johnson, Liam Hemsworth and Emma Roberts.
New Orleans boasts the most diverse portfolio of film and television work in the state of Louisiana, catering to large studio features, small independent projects and a wide range of television and commercial productions. And despite its distinctive look, New Orleans is earning a reputation as a convincing stand-in for other locations. For example, the New Orleans-filmed Empire State is set in New York, and the anything-but-generic Crescent City played the role of anywhere USA in the movie 21 Jump Street, released in 2012.
