Within the past 12 months, Vegas has indeed loomed prominently on the bigscreen, thanks to both studios and indie companies. A lot of production companies are moving past the obvious gambling theme of the city and exploring the uniqueness of life in Las Vegas. Now artists are surfacing in droves.
People like to go where there's a new energy and Hollywood always seems to follow.
Indeed, recognizing that Las Vegas has more actors per capita than even Tinseltown has to offer, SAG opened up its doors with a local chapter opening in December 1996. Yet Hollywood doesn't seem to completely trust the stability of the Vegas film boom quite yet.