Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton on Thursday released his five-point plan to revive California‘s sagging film and television industry, noting, “The lights are literally going out in Hollywood.”
A former Fox News host who announced his governor bid a year ago, Hilton is the GOP front-runner in the race, according to several polls this week. He appeared at the site of the shuttered Cinerama Dome in Hollywood on Thursday to tout his ideas on how to boost movie and TV production in the Golden State.
Read Hilton’s plan in full here.
“California invented the entertainment business,” he wrote. “Hollywood became the global center for film and television, supported by world-class talent, crews, studios, and infrastructure. But that advantage is slipping away.”
The former adviser to then-UK Prime Minister David Cameron ran through some reasons that production is moving out of the state, including “rigid
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