Sure! The economy’s in the crapper, along with the dollar, and Hollywood has barely recovered from the writer’s strike! Let’s have another! We won’t need to worry whether the film biz is “recession proof” — we’ll just keep having shutdowns during the recession!
Or does this simply mean that AFTRA will make the “blueprint” that SAG […]

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The latest word - aside from glum forecasts that a strike nobody wants might yet happen — is that there is no “word.” Which, at the moment, is a good thing.
A good synopsis of the present moment:

Raising hopes that some progress is being made in talks between members of the Screen Actors Guild and the […]

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As we head to summer tentpole season — a.k.a. “VFX season” — we expand our online repertoire beyond the dwindling economy, latest strike threats/negotiation moves, etc, in order to bring you some “lighter” reading…

Of Tubes and Pipelines: Overseeing FX work in “Prince Caspian”
by
Mark London Williams
For a visual effects supervisor, Dean Wright his post production pipeline […]

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Smaller Actors Union Delays Contract Talks to May 5
LOS ANGELES — The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists said Wednesday it would delay the start of its contract talks with Hollywood studios for a week to give the ongoing Screen Actors Guild negotiations a better chance to succeed.
The move pushed back the start of […]

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