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When filmmakers shot Fox Searchlight's upcoming "Wild" at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon, officials could not have been more helpful, says the movie's location manager, Nancy Haecker.
What a contrast from the stereotype of government bureaucracy - and from issues with filming at national parks in the past when, for example, Alfred Hitchcock was unable to shoot the climatic chase scene in "North by Northwest" on Mount Rushmore, getting his shots instead on a studio mockup.
But now there's a new concern: cost. The U.S. National Park Service and Dept, of the Interior are weighing a proposal to increase filming fees, and in some cases, double them.
The MPAA says the increases aren't justified, and could discourage filming on federal lands. More than 50...