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In honor of “opening day” for the cowled one, here’s an article from the most recent print edition of “Below the Line:”
Dark Knight, new day: VFX Supes Nick Davis and Paul Franklin on Batman’s new minimalism
by
Mark London Williams
Neither “The Dark Knight’s” overall VFX supe, Nick Davis, nor Paul Franklin, the specific wrangler for Brit-based post [...]

Here’s a rather interesting AP article posted over at the NAB Website. Note the paragraph about FilmLA and permits, towards the end. No mention if these were for features, TV, or commercials, so it’s hard to gauge the “activity” being talked about. On the other hand, it could also be indicative of the fact that [...]

I was in the middle of, well, working on a novel, when I was “texted” with the news: AFTRA approves by 62%!
The Onion once wrote a parody article about novelists going on strike. Here in Hollywood, there are still some stakes involved. For now. But frankly, it hasn’t been a “hot streak” for unions lately, [...]

This was a reply to an earlier thread that excerpted an interview with “Battlestar Galactica” producer Ron Moore, wherein he talked about him and his crew being asked to do free “webisodes.”
His wife, Terry Dresbach Moore — herself an IA member — joined that conversation, and we thought her reply was worthy of its own [...]

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