LAT: A Standoff Over Plan for 'Die Hard' Filming

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A Standoff Over Plan for 'Die Hard' Filming

A request to close the 105 Freeway and Imperial Highway near LAX is opposed by airlines.
By Jennifer Oldham
Times Staff Writer

October 5, 2006

In a disagreement between two of the region's largest economic engines — aviation and entertainment — airlines at Los Angeles International Airport are protesting a request by 20th Century Fox to close portions of the 105 Freeway and Imperial Highway this fall to film scenes for the latest Bruce Willis action flick, "Live Free or Die Hard."

The dispute surfaced in an Oct. 2 letter to Film L.A., the organization contracted by the city and county of Los Angeles to issue permits to studios. Airport officials said closing two roads that provide access to LAX would cause traffic backups that could inconvenience passengers, delay deliveries to cargo carriers and hamper construction on the southernmost runway.

"The studio's proposal to close both directions of Imperial Highway from Nash Street to Aviation Boulevard would have significant impacts on LAX passengers, workers and air cargo businesses operating on the airport adjacent to Imperial Highway," Samson Mengistu, assistant executive director of the city agency that operates LAX, wrote to Steve MacDonald, president of Film L.A.

Cargo carriers especially are upset, claiming that filming could cost them thousands of dollars in delayed deliveries during their busy pre-holiday season. But filming advocates say that they will take steps to mitigate inconveniences and argue that such projects are crucial to keeping studios from taking location jobs elsewhere.

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[cynatnite]

1. Sounds like a must-miss movie based on it's title...

other than that, studios are so greedy for their money it'll cost everyone else in order to make a buck, IMO.

[Liberal In Texas]

2. It wouldn't be so bad if they could actually make a GOOD movie.

The last couple of "Die Hards" pretty much sucked.

CGI being what it is, you really wouldn't have to close airports, etc. to make a movie.

"Poseidon", another really bad movie, was made without taking over a cruise ship. They just built the sets in a sound stage. And did CGI. They got the great effects but forgot to make a plot. Much like all the "Die Hard" movies.

But, LA is used to closing off streets and even airports to shoot a film. What's so different now? The scale?
Get over it, you live in la la land, where the next time you go to Starbucks, it might be surrounded by lights and trailers shooting the next whatever.

[Dem2theMax]

3. Heck, just cause two fake 'accidents,' one each on the 105 and

Imperial Hwy. That would get them a nice big traffic jam, and they could film.

I mean, who would notice a traffic jam in LA? LOL.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

4. Another Die-Hard???

Jeez, the first one was awesome, even the second was okay (The plane hitting the runway scene.....most gutwrenching scene in movie history)......but WTF? I thought Willis didn't need to do this series anymore.

[hogwyld]

5. he's a RW hack actor

trying to make an easy buck.