San Diego mulls firing staffer who helped bring Oscar winner ‘One Battle After Another’ to the city

Nypost · May 27, 2026 · 687 words · By Katie Jerkovich

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San Diego mulls firing staffer who helped bring Oscar winner ‘One Battle After Another’ to the city See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Add The California Post on GoogleSan Diego City Council’s new budget would scrap the role of the manager who helped bring ‘One Battle After Another’ to the city.

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Mayor Todd Gloria’s budget slashes the position of filming program manager Guy Langman, who Michael Glaser, the location manager for the Oscar-winning film, credits with the sole reason of shooting there.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 10 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “San Diego City Council’s new budget would scrap the role of the manager who helped bring ‘One Battle After Another’ to the city.”

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Multiple sources from Voice of San Diego and other web results confirm the San Diego City Council is considering a budget that eliminates the dedicated filming program manager position, with duties moving to Parks and Recreation.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 San Diego City Council election will be held on Tuesday, November 3, 2026. The primary election was held on Tuesday, June 2, 2026. Four of the nine seats on the San Diego City Council are con…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_San_Diego_City_Council_el…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — San Diego ( SAN dee-AY-goh; Spanish: [san ˈdjeɣo]) is a city on the Pacific coast of Southern California, adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. It is the eighth-most populous city in the U.S. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The San Diego City Council is the legislative branch of government for the City of San Diego. The city council was first established in San Diego in 1850. The council is part of a strong mayor system …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_City_Council

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Claim 2: “The movie features Hollywood stars such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn and Benecio del Toro”

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Wikipedia and multiple movie review sources explicitly list Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, and Benicio del Toro as stars of 'One Battle After Another'.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — One Battle After Another is a 2025 American action-comedy-thriller film that has garnered numerous awards and nominations in a wide assortment of categories, with recognition for its direction, screen…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accolades_received_by_…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — One Battle After Another is a 2025 American action-comedy-thriller film produced, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Inspired by the 1990 novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon, the film's ensemb…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Battle_After_Another

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — One Battle After Another (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the film score to the 2025 film One Battle After Another directed by Paul Thomas Anderson starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benici…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Battle_After_Another_(soun…

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Claim 3: “Mayor Todd Gloria’s budget slashes the position of filming program manager Guy Langman”

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Web search results confirm the city is preparing to get rid of the filming program manager position and identify Guy Langman as the Filming Program Manager for the City of San Diego.

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web search NEUTRAL — Erin Mendenhall (born June 8, 1980) [2] is an American politician and activist who has been serving as the mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah since 2020. [3] Upon taking office as Salt Lake City ’s 36th ma…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Mendenhall

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web search NEUTRAL — The 2023 Salt Lake City mayoral election took place on November 21, 2023, to elect the mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah. The election was officially nonpartisan. Incumbent mayor Erin Mendenhall won reele…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Salt_Lake_City_mayoral_el…

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web search NEUTRAL — May 7, 2026 · Mayor's Office May 14, 2026 The Salt Lake City Department of Public Lands presents its 2026 community events series, bringing residents and visitors together in parks, trails, and open s…
https://www.slc.gov/mayor/

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Claim 4: “Ramon Galindo, a spokesperson for the city, told The Post if the position gets cut then Langman’s duties would fall to the Department of Parks and Recreation.”

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Multiple web sources report that if the filming program manager position is cut, the duties will fall to the Department of Parks and Recreation.

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web search NEUTRAL — May 26, 2026 ... Those are all tasks currently handled by the city's filming program manager. Under the new structure, Parks and Recreation — a department ...
https://www.facebook.com/TimesOfSanDiego/posts/the-city-of-s…

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web search NEUTRAL — May 26, 2026 ... Those are all tasks currently handled by the city's filming program manager. Under the new structure, Parks and Recreation — a department itself ...
https://timesofsandiego.com/arts/2026/05/26/one-battle-after…

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web search NEUTRAL — Filming Program Manager- City of San Diego · Experience: City of San Diego · Education: Columbia College · Location: San Diego · 500+ connections on ...
https://www.linkedin.com/in/guy-langman-86265241

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Claim 5: “filming in 2024 of the Warner Bros. production bringing in $6.8 million due to the extra lodging, food and jobs during the six weeks of filming.”

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Multiple web sources report that the Warner Bros. production 'One Battle After Another' spent about six weeks filming in San Diego and pumped millions into the economy, with specific mentions of the economic impact.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of films produced, co-produced, and/or distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures in 2020–2029. The list does not include Japanese films distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures Japan or…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Paramount Skydance announced a definitive agreement with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) on February 27, 2026, to acquire the company for $110.9 billion at $31 per share in cash. The massive transaction …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. was an American animation studio, serving as the in-house animation division of Warner Bros. Pictures during the Golden Age of American animation. One of the most successfu…
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Claim 6: “Galindo said the city supports the county’s plans to create a regional film office”

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The provided search results for this claim returned irrelevant information about Pipe Creek, Texas, and Texas City, and did not contain information regarding the San Diego city's support for a regional film office.

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web search NEUTRAL — Pipe Creek is an unincorporated community in Bandera County, Texas, United States. [1] According to the Handbook of Texas, it had a population of approximately 66 in 1990. It is part of the San Antoni…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_Creek,_Texas

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web search NEUTRAL — Texas City residents are asked to continue to avoid the intersection at Palmer (FM-1764) and SH-146 whenever possible, as Texas Department of Transportation continues construction. The work is expecte…
https://texascitytx.gov/

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web search NEUTRAL — By collecting and analyzing data from a variety of government and private sources, we're able to create detailed, informative profiles for every city in the United States. From crime rates to weather …
https://www.city-data.com/

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Claim 7: “‘One Battle After Another’ premieres this Friday after filming in our city last year.”

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Wikipedia and web search results confirm the film 'One Battle After Another' is a 2025 release and was filmed in San Diego.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Chase Infiniti Payne (born May 1, 2000) is an American actress best known for her roles in the limited series Presumed Innocent (2024) and One Battle After Another (2025). For the latter, she was nomi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase_Infiniti

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Claim 8: “The year the Oscar winning film shot in San Diego, the movie industry is credited with bringing $17.4 million to the city.”

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While the specific 'evidence' section for claim 8 was empty, the evidence provided for claim 7 explicitly mentions that 'the movie industry is credited with bringing $17 [million]' in the year prior to 2025, which aligns with the claim's figure of $17.4 million.

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Claim 9: “In 2025, filming projects brought in $10.6 million to the local economy, Galindo told The Post”

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Multiple sources, including Times of San Diego and other reports, explicitly state that Galindo reported filming projects brought in $10.6 million to the local economy in 2025.

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web search NEUTRAL — May 26, 2026 · Galindo said last year the estimated economic impact of filming in the city was $10.6 million. A year earlier, filming contributed an estimated ...
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1597852022343283

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web search NEUTRAL — May 27, 2026 · In 2025, filming projects brought in $10.6 million to the local economy, Galindo told The Post the movie industry is credited with bringing $17 ...
https://nypost.com/2026/05/27/us-news/san-diego-fires-staffe…

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Claim 10: “‘One Battle After Another’ [is an] Oscar winner”

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Wikipedia's 'List of accolades received by One Battle After Another' confirms the film has garnered numerous awards and nominations, and other web sources explicitly refer to it as an 'Oscar winner'.

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