"Filming of big-budget movies has ground to a virtual halt across the city and much of the county, a slowdown partly driven by scheduling decisions studios made a year ago to prepare for a possible actors strike."
"Filming of big-budget movies has ground to a virtual halt across the city and much of the county, a slowdown partly driven by scheduling decisions studios made a year ago to prepare for a possible actors strike."
3 comments:
Well it seems to me that the best way to get everyone working again is to make a new contract with the actors guild. Until then everyone is going to be too on their toes to work. It seems that in this case the threat of a strike is almost as effective as the real thing.
It seems to me like they really need California to get tax break laws passed to reduce the productions budgets for the films. The larger the production, the higher the budget, the more stuff to buy, and the farther 42% really gets you. I know if i was a PM/Set Designer/Etc i would SO want to be filming on location in the cheaper state. Yes the threat of a strike is impacting California immediately, but the whole tax thing, I believe, will hurt them in the long run more.
Yes the tax breaks are a large chunk of the problem but not the whole. In other countries you can get materials, labor, locations, etc.. for cheaper. It's become it seems that if your location doesn't demand it, it's a lot cheaper to shoot outta country for many reasons, since you can always bring your material for editing here in the states for huge post-production base in la.
The actor strike scare has been going on since after the writers did their thing.
To expand on elize's comment, the threat of a strike is almost like the real thing because it scrambles people to do what ever they can to survive a dry spell of work if one actually comes. Not just actors and technicians, but craft services (caterers), vehicle rental companies, etc.
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