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To position the town for film industry growth in the state, officials are proposing an ordinance that would guide moviemakers to local sites and businesses and set rules for film production.

Applying the finishing touches to Shreveport’s Nu Image/Millennium Films studio, industry advocates say, should be the start to another bright year for area TV and movie production.

At the peak of the real estate frenzy in early 2007, the New York-based real estate company Tishman Speyer paid $200 million for land to build a Silicon Valley-style office park in Playa Vista, a new community rising on this city’s West Side.

Both finalists in this fall’s race for lieutenant governor pushed the idea of Louisiana becoming the Hollywood of the South, arguing that the film industry can produce good, high-paying jobs for a struggling state economy.

Mr. Steiner is the president of the Steiner Equities Group in Roseland, N.J., which has developed retail and office space nationwide, including the expansion of AT&T’s research headquarters in New Jersey.

A Los Angeles-based movie and television company plans to open a studio in Warren, a nearly $22 million project expected to create 350 jobs in within six months.

A Greenpoint film production company’s expansion plans have been temporarily put on hold — thanks to oil contamination.

Town officials are inching closer to an agreement on the public and private financing for a proposed film studio project in the I-291 corridor.

A Puerto Rican mayor says husband-and-wife pop stars Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony hope to transform his northeast coastal city into the Hollywood of the Caribbean.