{"id":114950,"date":"2023-12-01T23:30:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T23:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/01\/report-shows-141m-spent-in-alberta-for-the-last-of-us-tv-show\/"},"modified":"2023-12-01T23:30:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T23:30:13","slug":"report-exhibits-141m-spent-in-alberta-for-the-last-of-us-tv-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/01\/report-exhibits-141m-spent-in-alberta-for-the-last-of-us-tv-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Report exhibits $141M spent in Alberta for \u2018The Last of Us\u2019 TV present"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The common video game-turned TV present, The Last of Us was an enormous success for the Alberta economic system.<\/p>\n

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According to a brand new report by Oxford Economics, $141 million was spent throughout the province to make sure the present turned a actuality, making it the biggest sequence ever filmed in Canada.<\/p>\n

\u201cIncluding $70 million on labour and $70 million at local businesses, so that\u2019s everything from hotels, airlines, lumber, paint, set (decorations), vehicle rentals, you name it, they spent a lot of money in the province,\u201d mentioned Brock Skretting, director of Creative Industries with Economic Development Lethbridge.<\/p>\n

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The Last of Us<\/em> has additionally been nominated for twenty-four Emmy Awards, together with Outstanding Drama Series, and helped make use of gifted employees like Chris Glimsdale from Claresholm, who was nominated within the Outstanding Contemporary Hairstyling class.<\/p>\n

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Glimsdale says the largest problem throughout her time engaged on the present was conserving everybody organized and making use of hair to the contaminated zombies.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd HBO is very gracious in letting us have what we call \u2018the boot camp,\u2019 so the stylists would come in and practice how to lay hair and how to lay the pieces even though they had never done it before.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The present was filmed in a number of southern Alberta communities, together with Waterton Lakes National Park and Fort Macleod, and organizations in each cities say the longer term is wanting shiny for the movie and tv business.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen people are passing through town and it\u2019s not through The Last of Us,<\/em> they\u2019re thinking of Interstellar, Brokeback Mountain, Fargo,<\/em> you name it, they\u2019re usually going and visiting those places,\u201d mentioned Mackenzie Hengerer, member of the Fort Macleod Heritage Tourism Alliance.<\/p>\n

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President of the Waterton Park Chamber of Commerce, Shameer Suleman says: \u201cI think this is a great springboard for us and hopefully we\u2019re able to parlay this into more films and TV.\u201d<\/p>\n

Overall, the primary season of The Last of Us<\/em> generated greater than $182 million for Alberta\u2019s GDP and helped help 1,490 jobs throughout the province.<\/p>\n

Production for Season 2 will head west to Vancouver beginning in January of 2024.<\/p>\n

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