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Hollywood reporter: as of 9:35PM ET SAG, AMPTP still talking Hours of negotiations could be sign deal is near By Leslie Simmons Hope for an early bombshell development in the standoff between SAG and the studios melted in the afternoon heat Thursday, as the two sides remained sequestered after more than four hours of meeting. The potential for a breakthrough development -- either SAG agreeing to take the studios' "final offer" to its membership for a vote or the guild flatly refusing it -- remained a possibility as the talks continued into their fifth hour. SAG officials delivered a roughly 30-minute formal response to the studios offer, an insider reported…
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Here's an ironic twist from The Hollywood Reporter: AFTRA pact brings hope in Toronto But local producers worry productions will leave town By Etan Vlessing TORONTO -- News of a deal between AFTRA and the major studios has fed optimism here that Hollywood producers will once again be greenlighting projects for production in Canada. "I think this is a very major move that clearly paints the way to SAG ending up with a deal that looks like the others that have been ratified," Toronto Film Studios president Ken Ferguson said Wednesday. Canadian studios, burnt by a Canadian actors strike and the Hollywood writers strike earlier this year, have been unnerved by …
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This just in from from Variety: Studios sweeten SAG offer August 15 deadline set by majors By Dave McNary In a bid to nudge SAG toward cutting a deal, the majors have added a sweetener to their final offer on the condition that the guild ratify the deal by Aug. 15. Insiders say the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers has told SAG leaders that the pay increases offered in the deal would be retroactive to July 1 -- the date SAG's previous feature-primetime deal expired -- if the guild can get it ratified by its 120,000 members by Aug. 15. News of the sweetener emerged Wednesday, a day before the Screen Actors Guild's set to officially respond t…
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BREAKING: VARIETY AFTRA accepts deal Members of the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists have ratified the union's primetime deal, spurning SAG's avid campaigning to vote down the contract. AFTRA said 62% of those voting supported the deal. Announcement came Tuesday evening following a month of bitter battling between the thesp unions. The ratification was not a surprise due to the faltering economy and the lingering impact of the 100-day WGA strike. Terms in the AFTRA pact mirror those in the contracts signed by the WGA and DGA, along with the majors' final offer to SAG. The results represent a slap to SAG leadership, which has held out for a b…
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From Daily Variety: SAG to respond to offer by Thursday Voting results for AFTRA expected tonight By Dave McNary While Hollywood waiting anxiously for the results of AFTRA's ratification vote, SAG's agreed to deliver its official response Thursday afternoon to the majors' final offer to the guild. AFTRA's expected to announce the voting on its deal as early as this evening. SAG's campaigned vigorously against the AFTRA pact, which contains terms matching the congloms' final offer to SAG. SAG's hoping that a defeat of the AFTRA deal will give it the increased leverage it needs to obtain better terms. Ballots went out to all 70,000 AFTRA members, including 44,000 …
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Daily Variety's Dave McNary writes: Guild, AMPTP remain at loggerheads for now With the town remaining unsettled over a potential strike, the stalemate between SAG and the major studios will stay in place until next week. The two sides met for four hours Wednesday afternoon in a session set up for SAG to ask questions about the congloms' final offer, two days after the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers pulled the plug on further negotiations. "SAG asked for more time to study our final offer and indicated it will contact the producers on Monday." the AMPTP said. "We remain hopeful that SAG will advise that it is accepting our final offer. No fur…
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Happy July 4th to all! I just heard from Scott Wood of Digidesign, in Beijing who tells me: "I've been the principle workflow designer and will be on site testing and training their staff on "camera to digital cinema master" workflow training at the massive new 1.3M square foot China Film Group facility North of Beijing, which opens later this month. Think “digital filmâ€� meets “Chinese manufacturingâ€� meets “massive funding.â€� It is likely now the largest media workflow center in the world, designed to put out 80 feature films and 200 TV movies each year. These guys seriously invested in file based workflow, from acquisition to delivery." Here is what C…
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latest word from AP: SAG leader calls strike talk 'a distraction' 3 hours ago LOS ANGELES (AP) — The leader of the Screen Actors Guild said Sunday the union remains committed to negotiating a new deal with Hollywood producers as contract expiration looms and is not calling for a strike. Anxiety has been growing in Hollywood that actors might walk off the job or that studios could lock out performers on the heels of the Writers Guild of America strike that devastated production from November through February. The SAG contract runs out at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday. "We have taken no steps to initiate a strike authorization vote by the members of Screen Actors Guild…
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I have read on the fostex site that 8cm disks in the square caddy from maxell are no longer being made. They were suggesting owners of pd-6 to buying bulk disks and square caddies. Dos anyone know where to purchase the 8cm doublesided or (singlesided for that matter) disks? I would appreciate the information. It would be nice to have and they would hopefully be cheaper.
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For anyone else who would like to join us A few of us are meeting in the hotel bar at my hotel around 5:00pm Sunday June 29th they have some happy hour specials till 7:00pm and plenty of space hope to me meet some of you here is the address Tower Beverly Hills 1224 Beverwil Dr Los Angeles, CA 90035 Hope to meet some of you any questions give me a call I also have Tuesday off as well if anyone is free then I would love to put some names with faces Whitney Ince 561.212.1443
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http://www.studiodaily.com/filmandvideo/currentissue/9610.html good read.. -Richard
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Just to plug this shop I visited today: http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.filmtontechnik.de%2F&lp=de_en&btnTrUrl=Translate Loose translation of their website. I found that they stock most needed items, especially the German gear. Surprised to find Lectro gear, but then not that surprised! Their english is passible. Good Luck Eric Lamontagne
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Just found out that my friend and fellow mixer Mike Tromer passed away 3 months ago. Mike was a unique character tobe sure. His credits include the tv series "Miami Vice". Mike retired from the business about 3 years ago. Gonna miss you Mike. Eric
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George Carlin, the acerbic, Grammy-winning comedian whose career spanned more than 50 years, died of heart failure Sunday evening after being admitted to the hospital complaining of chest pains, his spokesman said. He was 71. This is really sad... one of the most unique and talented people ever ... his take on our language (and not just the 7 dirty words), our society and what it means to be a human being. I will really miss him. - Jeff Wexler
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I follow this forum even if I haven't posted in a long time, and it occurred to me that some people might find this interesting: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/business/media/16cnd-schwartz.html
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This is a real bummer.. A true creative master has passed away! http://www.aintitcool.com/node/37106 I grew up with a lot of these creatures haunting my childhood. -Richard
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A guy I know started a new blog called Production War Stories, for anonymous recounting of our more "interesting" gigs. His rules: Email your production horror/adventure/comedies, but please bear this in mind: Production, overall, is a small community, and this is no forum to blast anyone in. So PLEASE… 1.) Don't include names. 2.) Don't tell me what the brand was/is. 3.) If you wish to change your name, please do so IN THE EMAIL YOU SEND. Could be a fun place to vent/commiserate: http://productionwarstories.blogspot.com/ -Christian
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The original post was from Mac Ruth on RAMPS. Here it is from the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7450321.stm RL
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http://www.macrumorslive.com/
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Alton Kelley was one of the founders of the 1960s psychedelic rock scene. He was the creator, along with artistic partner Stanley Mouse, of hundreds of classic psychedelic rock posters. Truly one of the greats. - Jeff Wexler
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Not to shabby but, and there's always a "but", the individual threads on the main board are a bit too small. The "Icon Homage" to Apple is cute if not a bit commercial. Glad the computer company was not named "Asparagus". Eric
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If I do change the theme of this forum once again, everyone online at the time will probably have to reload the site with their browser or possibly even log out and log in. Hopefully everyone remembers their login name and password (or your browser remembers it for you). I am also considering changing the default theme to something I like but if others do not like it I will make it possible for each user to choose their own theme. Regards, Jeff Wexler
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Great test and info, compliments of Jon Tatooles of Sound Devices http://www.sounddevices.com/notes/cameras/red-one/ RL
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I just read this news ... I didn't even know he was ill. Very sad. (obit, in part, posted below) By Adam Bernstein Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, May 27, 2008; Page B06 Sydney Pollack, 73, a director and producer of popular Hollywood movies for nearly four decades, including the comedy "Tootsie," and who won Academy Awards for "Out of Africa," died May 26 at his home in Los Angeles. He had cancer. Mr. Pollack, who called himself "Mr. Mainstream," was wildly successful at moviemaking with mass appeal but drew mixed reviews during a prolific career. His best-remembered work could be provocative, timely and sensitively crafted: "Tootsie" (1982) was hil…
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In case anyone wonders what happened this morning with this forum, Lunarpages had a meltdown that affected the server. Everything is back now. From Lunarpages: "Dear Customers, At 7:40am this morning, one of our air conditioning units failed in the cage at the One Wilshire building, the building's maintenance department dispatched an engineer to attend to their unit, which is now fully operational. Unfortunately as a result of this, some of our servers in the One Wilshire building were in danger of overheating and were shut down as a precautionary measure. All servers are either up or in the process of being up at this moment. We greatly apologize for the incon…
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