PENNY DREADFUL: CITY OF ANGELS to Film in Los Angeles

Deadline reports that Showtime's upcoming adaptation of PENNY DREADFUL will film in Los Angeles due to tax help from the city itself.

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, starring Daniel Zovatto, Natalie Dormer and Nathan Lane, has conditionally received $24.7 million as a relocating series under California's annual incentives project: the most any television project has ever been awarded.

"Choosing where to set up production for the next chapter of the Penny Dreadfulfable was one of the most important decisions we had to make, and there were many options we looked into," Showtime's co-president of entertainment Jana Winogradesaid of the move from Dublin for the John Logan-created horror franchise. "Shooting in California obviously has many attractions, but without the state's film and TV tax credit it could become cost prohibitive," the exec added. "We couldn't be happier about how things worked out or the benefits it will bring to the job market."

Besides its leads like Zovatto, Dormer and Lane, plus recently added Oscar and Golden Globe nominee Adriana Barraza, City of Angels will employ more than 350 cast members, 150 crew and 10,000 extras.

First announced November 1 last year, the series is set in the swirling change of the L.A. of the 1930s and the growing metropolis' Mexican-American folklore. In a way, today's relocation announcement is just another feather in the cap of the incentive program's goal to pluck projects back to Cali, but a logical move aesthetically and culturally for the series which is partially directed by Paco Cabeza.

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