Good News, the woke Hollywood Writer Strike is still on! The Deal's off between the unions and producers! | ClownfishTV
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Yes. Most production does take place in LA, unless specifically shifted to Canada or the UK or Atlanta. If they stay within X miles of Hollywood, they don’t have to rent hotels an do a bunch of other shit for the crew. The majority of things you see on TV are written, filmed and edited within a small radius of Hollywood in order to save money. Netflix, Amazon, Disney, and all of the studios have their media centers in Burbank or Hollywood. This is for a reason. So they can do everything within 50 miles and no one has to be paid for hotels and travel.
If anyone is ignorant, it’s you. Research the unions and how typical Hollywood production works and you will see why everything from The Office to Escape from New York was filmed in LA. Even when movies are filmed in the UK, every single other portion of the process done in LA to keep production costs down.
The sooner the entire industry dies the better. And it’s well on its way.
I am an IATSE card carrying member, friend. I can assure you that while what you are saying is true, the idea that it is isolated to one area is false. Hollywood unions have “Locals” which are situated in major cities all over the country. It doesn’t all happen in LA. What you are describing is our contract structure. You are literally describing the “basic agreement”. Any production that films a certain amount of miles away from that Local’s union hall is responsible for hotel costs. They apply it in Georgia, New Mexico, Las Vegas, New York, Chicago, etc. This is a country wide deal friend. So you’re suggesting that Sopranos was shot in LA? I suppose all of the years of work I did in Steiner, Silvercup, Kaufman, York, Gold Coast, Grumman, and Broadway Stages, were all an illusion and I was really in LA when I was working? All my paystubs, that’s all bullshit? Lots of productions moved to New York to take advantage of our outrageous film tax credit: to save money. What are you trying to win here? I don’t disagree that the higher ups are corrupt and something needs to be done.