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Anticipation builds for return of TV, film production in NOLA

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The four-month long Hollywood strike is set to come to an end.

Members of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists are set to vote to accept the deal struck between the studios and union leaders. So, exactly when is production be expected to pick up in Hollywood south?


“The bigger challenge is getting all the A-List actors’ schedules together," Trey Burvant, President of the Louisiana Film and Entertainment Association, told WWL's Dave Cohen on Monday.

Burvant says he understands that anticipation is high for the return of on-set work. However, he notes that the comeback will be slow and steady.

“What we’re really projecting is that the spring will be gangbusters," Burvant said.

There was one bone of contention that seemed to ground negotiations to a halt--emerging artificial intelligence.

"It was such a novel negotiating process because there were so many things they had to deal with, artificial intelligence being one of them," Burvant said.