Where is the thirty mile zone?

Question

From where to where is the thirty mile zone?

Answer 1

Studio zone (also called "Thirty-Mile Zone")
is a term used in the American entertainment industry to describe the area within a thirty-mile (50 km) radius from the intersection of Beverly Boulevard and La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles, California.

In addition, the studio zone includes the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Conejo Ranch property, although it technically lies outside of the zone's radius.

Entertainment industry unions use this area to determine rates and work rules for union workers in the entertainment industry. For instance, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees contracts state:

"Studio rates and working conditions shall prevail for all work performed within the studio zone; however, for newly-called employees and those employees notified on the previous day prior to their departure from the studio (or the zone location) to report at the zone location, work time shall begin and end at the zone location; otherwise, work time shall begin and end at the studio. Such work time includes travel time both ways between the studio and the zone location."

"Studio rates" are generally lower than "distant location rates," which would need to be paid (in addition to travel time and mileage) for work outside the studio zone.

Because it is much more expensive to film outside of the studio zone, television producers prefer to film within the zone (and go to great lengths to select and dress sets appropriately) even when a show's claimed setting is just outside the zone. A famous example of this phenomenon was The OC, which was primarily filmed in the Los Angeles County Beach Cities within the zone rather than in the real Orange County, which literally sits on the zone's border.



The initials of the Time Warner tabloid news Web site TMZ.com stand for "Thirty Mile Zone," an alternate name for the studio zone.

Quote:
* "In the film and TV locations business, contrary to the tenets of astrophysics, there actually is a center of the universe and it's at the corner of La Cienega and Beverly boulevards. Where the Beverly Center meets the Beverly Connection is the dead center of Hollywood's so-called Studio Zone." —Christopher Grove, Variety

Answer 2

Really good L.A. type question by Kiss (one of the best ever,it actually does have to do with traveling) and excellent answer by Jackie above...This zone originated with the SAG (Screen Actors Guild) Union contract and is now used by many unions..The key generally is if you produce outside THE ZONE you have to pay everybody (which is more people than you can even imagine) time and a half...When they filmed Pirates of the Caribbean (the Los Angeles part). for example, they filmed no more than12 miles off Manhattan Beach because if they went too much further they risked having to pay everybody time and a half....Monitoring this is in part what a location manager does. Paying time and a half will make many projects unprofitable and violations will lead to the location manager being fired..
Jackie's example for the O.C. is correct, it is filmed in studio and on beach at Manhattan Beach because of this rule..
The zone generally includes, very conservatively calculated, which is the way location managers do it, (obviously they have an exact map) the following as being
OK: Out a little past Point Dume/Malibu, a little north of Santa Clarita, about 2/3's of the way to Ontario, San Pedro/Long Beach- downtown only..(the line is somewhere between Alimitos Bay and Seal Beach, so you don't want to go anywhere near Seal Beach),all of the Palos Verde peninsula is OK, obviously it does not go out very far in the ocean toward Catalina.
Rule #1---STAY IN THE ZONE or plan on paying a ton more for your production...

Answer 3

e term “Thirty Mile Zone” originated in the 1960s, when due to the growth of location shoots, studios established a “thirty mile zone” to monitor rules for filming in Hollywood. The center of the zone was the offices of The Association of Motion Pictures and Television Producers, formerly at Beverly and La Cienega Boulevards in Los Angeles. TMZ reinvented the thirty mile zone and now serves as the Internet’s premiere address for entertainment news. TMZ altered the entertainment news landscape by changing the way the public gets its news. Frequently referenced by various media, TMZ is one of the most-cited entertainment news sources, utilized by national network and local newsgathering organizations across the country.

Answer 4

Think you are asking about the 30 mile zone off of the US coasts . . . it would extend from the shoreline out to sea 30 miles . . .

Is this what you mean?

Answer 5

Wow. Had no idea Paris knew so much. I guess she just plays dumb.

Unless it's paying time and a half.

Answer 6

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