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FILM LOCATION GUIDE DUE IN JUNE.


Byline: Peggy Hager Staff Writer

LANCASTER - West Coast Film Locations is preparing a second edition of its guide listing businesses and locations that serve the film industry.

The new Desert Sierra Film Guide will be published at the end of June, said Pat Smith of West Coast Film Locations.

The guide provides information for production companies interested in filming in the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming.

The Antelope Valley
, listing hotels, caterers, rental companies and other businesses, as well as locations to apply for permits.

``Why go to other locations when they can come to Hollywood's backlot backlot
Noun

an area outside a film or television studio used for outdoor filming
?'' said Smith.

He said he expects the guide to cover 80 pages, twice the amount as last year's edition, with more advertising from local businesses. He plans to print 5,000 copies, distributing them to location managers and at the annual Show Biz Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center The Los Angeles Convention Center (abbreviated LACC) is a convention center in downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show, and was best known to video games fans as host to E3 until its cessation in 2006. .

Gracing the guide cover will be a photo of actor Paul Newman Noun 1. Paul Newman - United States film actor (born in 1925)
Newman, Paul Leonard Newman
, who plans to open The Painted Turtle painted turtle

Species (Chrysemys picta, family Emydidae) of brightly marked North American turtle found from southern Canada to northern Mexico. It has a smooth shell, 4–7 in.
 Camp in Lake Hughes for children with chronic and life-threatening illnesses. The camp is expected to open next year.

The Antelope Valley's desert, rocky buttes and other features have appeared in commercials, television shows, movies and music videos.

Features currently filming in the Antelope Valley include ``House of the Thousand Corpses'' at the Four Aces set near Lake Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  and ``Squelch'' at a Sierra Highway motel in Lancaster.

Listings in the guide are still available. Anyone interested should contact Smith at (661)951-0315 or West Coast Film Locations at www.wcfl.net.
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