Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Tech Tussle: Vfx unionization
Variety: "At last week's Academy visual effects bakeoff, Acad governor Bill Taylor introduced the evening by noting that the seven films still in the Oscar race earned more than $3.3 billion in box office and employed 2,800 artists on six continents.
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It's interesting that IATSE and the Teamsters are both driving for the VFX artists to unionize. I think it's really odd though for VFX to fall under their umbrella rather than IATSE. Then you have the issues of unionizing driving away business to other countries and basically killing VFX in the states.
If I had to guess, I would figure that VFX will fall under IATSE within 10 years after things cool off.
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