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Pleasure builds for Oscars – however Hollywood nonetheless reeling from wildfires

By Editorial Board Published March 1, 2025 5 Min Read
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Pleasure builds for Oscars – however Hollywood nonetheless reeling from wildfires

As Hollywood celebrates the movie business at this weekend’s Academy Awards, not distant from the place ending touches are being put to the crimson carpet, communities are nonetheless coming to phrases with the affect of the wildfires which ravaged areas of Los Angeles earlier this 12 months. 

Prop grasp Adam Jette – and his spouse and son – misplaced their dwelling in Altadena.

“You’re coming back to what it is, which is a disaster site, the whole neighbourhood is gone.”

He says he and others in the identical place don’t have any alternative however to maintain going.

“We all have to keep working in order to support ourselves, in order to have our health insurance, in order to be able to move forward and rebuild.

“And but the one factor you need to do is simply, , sit there in distress.”

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In Hollywood, few productions have needed to be paused as a result of much less is being shot right here as of late, the fires including to the existential disaster the town was already dealing with.

Wes Bailey’s firm SirReel has been renting out movie and TV manufacturing gear in Los Angeles because the Nineties – however lately work within the metropolis of desires has dried up.

First COVID-19, then strikes and now, after a race for scale to fee content material for streaming platforms, the business is dealing with a manufacturing contraction and Bailey says it wants assist.

“The fires were, I think, the catalyst to really get people to say ‘we’ve got an emergency here’,” he says.

“You go into the UK and you get a 40% return on your money.

“I feel the best way that California delivers that incentive has been sloppy, it has been inconsistent.”

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For shiny actuality present Promoting Sundown, set round high-end actual property in LA, manufacturing has now resumed after pausing when the fires broke out.

One of many present’s stars, Jason Oppenheim, says he is had “many, many” emotional calls from purchasers.

He says Los Angeles has points that want resolving if it desires to proceed to draw funding.

“We obviously have a crime problem, we have a homelessness problem, we’ve obviously taxed to the point where we discourage development, and we obviously have seen significant loss of wealthy people leaving the state.

“In case you actually need to have a wholesome, functioning society that is egalitarian and creates alternative for everybody, you are going to want a number of rich folks in that metropolis paying taxes, so you can’t drive them away and that is only a truth.”

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Oscar statuettes appear backstage at the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Feb. 28, 2016. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File)

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But regardless of the frustration, he is optimistic for the way forward for the Palisades – one other space devastated by the fires.

“I would bet anything that the Palisades will be one of the most desirable areas on the planet to live in five years,” he says.

“The houses will be stunning, fireproof, beautiful architecture.”

However that appears a great distance off now, and within the meantime for these left with nothing the little they’ll salvage turns into particular.

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For Adam Jette that is even an iron saucepan.

“To be able to pull anything out of this wreckage and have it, it’s so meaningful,” he says.

“It didn’t take our pets and it didn’t take our family, it just took stuff, but even just some of that surviving it really, it means something.”

Buried within the ashes following the wildfires is a lesson in what issues to those that maintain this business going – and it isn’t crimson carpets or golden statuettes.

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