Credit the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors with making filming more difficult and more expensive in the County than in the City — enhancing one of the biggest obstacles to filming in the greater LA area. With the latest county fee increase going into effect today, the problem of skyrocketing bureaucratic costs threatens to negate much of the anticipated income from increased production heading Hollywood’s way if Sacramento finally approves a long-awaited film incentives package (it’s now in the state Senate after being passed by the Assembly in May). “The City is great and the County sucks,” a veteran location manager told Deadline.

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