A new film business is happening in New Jersey! Lots of revenue has been produced from big movies being filmed in New Jersey, that is benefiting local businesses such as restaurants, hotels, and more! Jon explains how you could get involved. Netflix is building stages throughout the Garden State.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He may not realize that, but New Jersey is skyrocketing
up the list of states to go to for movie productions,
internet productions, TV productions. It has become the hot state
for putting making anything making. Some of the biggest films
(00:20):
of the last few years were made in New Jersey.
And to talk about that, and the guy that can
be credited with helping that happen is John Crowley, Executive
director of the New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission. Now,
to set this up, I just want to let you
know that I have worked with John before. We've won
Emmys together for some work that we did. And now
(00:41):
he's got this huge role. He's got this big role.
Do I hear from him?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
No.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I'm thinking to myself, Well, you know what, I could
play some small role in a movie. I could be
a radio broadcaster in a movie. I could be a
TV anchor and movie. So I sit there by my
phone and just waiting for John to call me, and
I I ever get a phone call. But now now
that he wants to glow about how New Jersey is
doing so well with movies, now I get to talk
(01:08):
to him.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Good morning, John, Larry, how are you my friend.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I'm doing well. It's been a long time. The last
time I talked to you it was about possibly doing
a commercial. So I can't say yes that you never
called me. As a matter of fact, you called me
right You called me yesterday. I was taking a nap,
but I thought to myself, why is John Crowley calling me?
And you know, I want to call you right back
because it might be some huge movie role. But but no,
(01:36):
it was just that you were coming on with us today.
How have you been. How's everything going?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I'm out all great. I mean, we're going like gangbusters
in New Jersey. But look, I got to drop the
dime on you to your listeners because we did the
show together. And I had said to Larry, you know,
I've never won an Emmy and that's sort of a
bucket list thing. We finished taping that night, I don't
know if you remember this, and you walked up the
aisle to me and you said, you just won your
(02:01):
first Emmy, and I have you to thank. Larry. You
were a fantastic hoast for that event, and you know
you went out of your way to make make the
Emmy folks aware of our program, and I owe that
that piece of hardware to you, my friend. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, and you were wonderful even at the time. You
got some Hollywood guests to come all the way to
New Jersey to appear in that. So yeah, No, it
was a wonderful.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It was.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
It was just let the people, let people know that
it was a town hall about the opioid crisis, and
so and and we had some people on the stage
that had some heartbreaking stories. We had the Attorney General.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
It was.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
It was a wonderful TV moment that I'm really proud of.
And John, I'm sure you are too.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I am. And and and you just said we've got
some Hollywood people to come to that, Well we're getting
even more of them, uh these days with the with
film and TV production. Let me I'll just you want
do you want me to give you just some some
good numbers?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Go ahead, go ahead?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
All right? So twenty so, historically New Jersey's been like
number seven, number eight in terms of you know, production
hubs to come to in the United States. LA, even
though the numbers have been down, LA is still number one.
New York's number two. George has been number three, and
then we're down around seven or eight. Well, our goal
(03:21):
on the film Commission is to get us into that
number three spot. And it's happening because in twenty twenty three,
we had five hundred and ninety two million dollars in
what is called qualified spend. That's the money that productions
are spending when they're here in New Jersey. They don't
come here with groceries and hardware and fuel and cars
(03:43):
things like that. They're getting them here, they're renting them
when they're here. So that was five hundred and ninety
two million dollars in New Jersey on qualified spend twenty
twenty four. Do you want to take a guest, Larry,
what the qualified spend was?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I have it in front of me, so it's not
a guess. I'm not going to achieve.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Go ahead and tell me Genie eight eight hundred and
ten million dollars qualified spend. Wow, so's thirty seven percent
that were up and La down, New York stagnant, recovering,
Georgia down, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico down down, down. Those
are all of our major competitors. Chicago down, even Toronto
(04:19):
is down.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Hey, John, you're just talking about the money. What about
the jobs?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Oh so the jobs even more millary. They we twenty
twenty two sixteen thousand crew hires, twenty twenty three was
like seventeen thousand crew hires. In twenty twenty four we
hit a new high, which was thirty thousand crew hires.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
But absolutely some of the biggest some of the biggest
movies and some of the biggest shows of the last
couple of years. I don't think people were realized we're
done in New Jersey. Go through a few of them.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Uh well, you know, And that's the thing, right is like,
why is that happening? Well, New Jersey, you know, geographically
compact state, but this huge variety of locations, and that's
one of the biggest draws for production is they say, well,
we've got all these different things we need in our script.
You know, we need to Washington, d C. Look alike,
or we need to play like Times Square in New York,
(05:18):
but we don't want to deal with the traffic of
going to New York. And we've got all that huge
amount of variety locations, little towns, big cities, mountains with
snow oceans. So Severance is shooting, you know, has been
shooting in Holmeedale at the Bell Labs building.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
No bigger show, no bigger show on TV right now,
that's right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Right, Larry, are you in any air and outy We
will figure that out later.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
So that's for your Severance fans, that's for your seventh fans.
That's nothing to do with your belly button. But so
Severance a complete unknown. That was the Bob Dylan biopic
that was here, the new Bruce Springsteen biopick that's coming
out Delivered Me from Nowhere, filmed here Steven Spielberg. He's
(06:03):
got a new film that's coming out. That was down
in Kate may I got to tell you about that too.
That was that was crazy in terms of that money
that we talk about. They had three hundred and fifty
crew members that were down there in Kate may Well.
They were all coming from else you know, from Northern Jersey,
Central Jersey, wherever. So they put them up in hotels.
(06:25):
They the three hundred and fifty crew were in eight
different hotels and an average of two hundred and eighty
five dollars per night. See you do the math. And
that's in the off season. That was like February March,
so the hotel owners were ecstatic. And then when everybody
wrapped filming for the end of the day, they went
and they took their per diem and they were buying
dinner at restaurants all around Kate May area. So again,
(06:47):
between the jobs and the qualified spend the money that
they're spending, that's that's why we do that. But we've
all happy Gilmore. Happy Gilmore just released what about a
week week and a half ago on Netflix. Shot here
for like six some odd days, and they spent one
hundred and fifty two million dollars while they were here
in state. Eighteen million. That was just in location fees
(07:09):
at golf courses and stores and you know, restaurants everywhere
that you've seen in the movie. They were paying location fees.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And you have so much being built in New Jersey
and John, we're running out of time, but you know what,
we got to have you back. So let's let's talk
again soon and come back on. You know you have.
It's an open door policy. Apparently I've been shut out
to any production in New Jersey, but for you, sir,
it's an open door policy to come on the show
to talk about what's happening there.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Larry, I'm sure I'm sure we'll get jumped down there.
I beg you chance. I got to talk to you,
my friend with.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
You great, all right, so we'll definitely do that. John,
congratulations on the gig and congratulations on your success.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Thanks a lot, Thank you, sir, Thank you,
He may not realize that, but New Jersey is skyrocketing
up the list of states to go to for movie productions,
internet productions, TV productions. It has become the hot state
for putting making anything making. Some of the biggest films
(00:20):
of the last few years were made in New Jersey.
And to talk about that, and the guy that can
be credited with helping that happen is John Crowley, Executive
director of the New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission. Now,
to set this up, I just want to let you
know that I have worked with John before. We've won
Emmys together for some work that we did. And now
(00:41):
he's got this huge role. He's got this big role.
Do I hear from him?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
No.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I'm thinking to myself, Well, you know what, I could
play some small role in a movie. I could be
a radio broadcaster in a movie. I could be a
TV anchor and movie. So I sit there by my
phone and just waiting for John to call me, and
I I ever get a phone call. But now now
that he wants to glow about how New Jersey is
doing so well with movies, now I get to talk
(01:08):
to him.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Good morning, John, Larry, how are you my friend.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I'm doing well. It's been a long time. The last
time I talked to you it was about possibly doing
a commercial. So I can't say yes that you never
called me. As a matter of fact, you called me
right You called me yesterday. I was taking a nap,
but I thought to myself, why is John Crowley calling me?
And you know, I want to call you right back
because it might be some huge movie role. But but no,
(01:36):
it was just that you were coming on with us today.
How have you been. How's everything going?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I'm out all great. I mean, we're going like gangbusters
in New Jersey. But look, I got to drop the
dime on you to your listeners because we did the
show together. And I had said to Larry, you know,
I've never won an Emmy and that's sort of a
bucket list thing. We finished taping that night, I don't
know if you remember this, and you walked up the
aisle to me and you said, you just won your
(02:01):
first Emmy, and I have you to thank. Larry. You
were a fantastic hoast for that event, and you know
you went out of your way to make make the
Emmy folks aware of our program, and I owe that
that piece of hardware to you, my friend. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, and you were wonderful even at the time. You
got some Hollywood guests to come all the way to
New Jersey to appear in that. So yeah, No, it
was a wonderful.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It was.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
It was just let the people, let people know that
it was a town hall about the opioid crisis, and
so and and we had some people on the stage
that had some heartbreaking stories. We had the Attorney General.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
It was.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
It was a wonderful TV moment that I'm really proud of.
And John, I'm sure you are too.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I am. And and and you just said we've got
some Hollywood people to come to that, Well we're getting
even more of them, uh these days with the with
film and TV production. Let me I'll just you want
do you want me to give you just some some
good numbers?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Go ahead, go ahead?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
All right? So twenty so, historically New Jersey's been like
number seven, number eight in terms of you know, production
hubs to come to in the United States. LA, even
though the numbers have been down, LA is still number one.
New York's number two. George has been number three, and
then we're down around seven or eight. Well, our goal
(03:21):
on the film Commission is to get us into that
number three spot. And it's happening because in twenty twenty three,
we had five hundred and ninety two million dollars in
what is called qualified spend. That's the money that productions
are spending when they're here in New Jersey. They don't
come here with groceries and hardware and fuel and cars
(03:43):
things like that. They're getting them here, they're renting them
when they're here. So that was five hundred and ninety
two million dollars in New Jersey on qualified spend twenty
twenty four. Do you want to take a guest, Larry,
what the qualified spend was?
Speaker 1 (03:54):
I have it in front of me, so it's not
a guess. I'm not going to achieve.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Go ahead and tell me Genie eight eight hundred and
ten million dollars qualified spend. Wow, so's thirty seven percent
that were up and La down, New York stagnant, recovering,
Georgia down, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico down down, down. Those
are all of our major competitors. Chicago down, even Toronto
(04:19):
is down.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Hey, John, you're just talking about the money. What about
the jobs?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Oh so the jobs even more millary. They we twenty
twenty two sixteen thousand crew hires, twenty twenty three was
like seventeen thousand crew hires. In twenty twenty four we
hit a new high, which was thirty thousand crew hires.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
But absolutely some of the biggest some of the biggest
movies and some of the biggest shows of the last
couple of years. I don't think people were realized we're
done in New Jersey. Go through a few of them.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Uh well, you know, And that's the thing, right is like,
why is that happening? Well, New Jersey, you know, geographically
compact state, but this huge variety of locations, and that's
one of the biggest draws for production is they say, well,
we've got all these different things we need in our script.
You know, we need to Washington, d C. Look alike,
or we need to play like Times Square in New York,
(05:18):
but we don't want to deal with the traffic of
going to New York. And we've got all that huge
amount of variety locations, little towns, big cities, mountains with
snow oceans. So Severance is shooting, you know, has been
shooting in Holmeedale at the Bell Labs building.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
No bigger show, no bigger show on TV right now,
that's right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Right, Larry, are you in any air and outy We
will figure that out later.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
So that's for your Severance fans, that's for your seventh fans.
That's nothing to do with your belly button. But so
Severance a complete unknown. That was the Bob Dylan biopic
that was here, the new Bruce Springsteen biopick that's coming
out Delivered Me from Nowhere, filmed here Steven Spielberg. He's
(06:03):
got a new film that's coming out. That was down
in Kate may I got to tell you about that too.
That was that was crazy in terms of that money
that we talk about. They had three hundred and fifty
crew members that were down there in Kate may Well.
They were all coming from else you know, from Northern Jersey,
Central Jersey, wherever. So they put them up in hotels.
(06:25):
They the three hundred and fifty crew were in eight
different hotels and an average of two hundred and eighty
five dollars per night. See you do the math. And
that's in the off season. That was like February March,
so the hotel owners were ecstatic. And then when everybody
wrapped filming for the end of the day, they went
and they took their per diem and they were buying
dinner at restaurants all around Kate May area. So again,
(06:47):
between the jobs and the qualified spend the money that
they're spending, that's that's why we do that. But we've
all happy Gilmore. Happy Gilmore just released what about a
week week and a half ago on Netflix. Shot here
for like six some odd days, and they spent one
hundred and fifty two million dollars while they were here
in state. Eighteen million. That was just in location fees
(07:09):
at golf courses and stores and you know, restaurants everywhere
that you've seen in the movie. They were paying location fees.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And you have so much being built in New Jersey
and John, we're running out of time, but you know what,
we got to have you back. So let's let's talk
again soon and come back on. You know you have.
It's an open door policy. Apparently I've been shut out
to any production in New Jersey, but for you, sir,
it's an open door policy to come on the show
to talk about what's happening there.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Larry, I'm sure I'm sure we'll get jumped down there.
I beg you chance. I got to talk to you,
my friend with.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
You great, all right, so we'll definitely do that. John,
congratulations on the gig and congratulations on your success.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Thanks a lot, Thank you, sir, Thank you,
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