With a budget of about $30 million, "Hollywood Adventures" is the largest Chinese-language movie to film in Southern California, providing a rare influx of foreign production to a region that has seen a steady outflow of movies to other states and countries.
Customers abusing good faith efforts is a big problem, but foreign production likely doesn't help.
As giant companies like Time Warner and Discovery obtain a growing portion of their revenue from overseas markets, they are homing in on a handful of relatively small foreign production houses.
A foreign film production in Hungary receives the 20 percent discount through a partnership with a local production company, which typically supplies everything from lighting to crews.
We have allowed a foreign oil production cartel to be sustained by a domestic transportation fuel distribution and infrastructure monopoly.
In an international market, it's no longer an option just to sit back and wait for foreign production to come to us.
Today's medical-product landscape blurs the line between domestic and foreign production, drawing attention to the need for global quality and safety oversight to prevent patient exposure to falsified products.
"In the 80's, we worried about the trade deficit because foreign production was displacing domestic employment," said Christopher Low, an economist at First Tennessee Capital Markets in New York.
