And City Councilmember

Sorry, said city auditor. It’s LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia — who, by definition, is our auditor but that’s not his title.

There’s an update to the story. The city auditor is looking into the tree trimming because it was not sanctioned (the trees are under city control.) The trimming was more severe than it has ever been and the wrong time of year. There is no required permit on file to do it privately and the city itself did not do it.

It is NOT operating the same as it always was. Do you know anyone who works at SpaceX? Musk is an attention whore and likes to be the face of the company but the company, behind the scenes, is led by others and up until recently, Musk stayed out of it. He was much more distracted/involved in Tesla — which is how…

Musk’s own engineers told him that they needed to build this years ago.

Plenty of studios (in recent years) have closed/shuttered/sold under the best of circumstances. If studios thought they could survive/thrive under current supply/legacy content, they would. It’s pure capitalism.

Jim Jordan ignored a subpoena from Congress. Everyone else should get the same rights. Meta should tell him to Fk off.

They weren’t allowed in 2007. And that bargaining closed some loopholes the WGA could see coming. But the way the WGA won out of that is they broke the AMPTP solidarity and made deals. So then some studios (Weinsteins, MRC, Paramount) could continue to work while others were still under strike.

They are allowed to truncate scenes and omit lines (or even words.) They cannot add lines/words.

It isn’t, really. It’s part of the agreement. And everyone knows in the industry that breaking these rules could end your production company. Only way for these contracts to have any teeth. Otherwise I’m sure all the studios would flagrantly violate the agreed upon contracts. (All union members also have outreach…

Even the US collective bargaining of the different production unions prevent union solidarity. It’s not government mandated but it is in each of the collective bargains. The only way this is happening now is because of an overlap of negotiations (which could have included the DGA the cowards.) I, as an IATSE member,…

Oppenheimer wasn’t under Equity rules/contracts. It was SAG-AFTRA. So the actors followed the promotional rules (also, the studio knew which is why them moved up the time table on promotion.)

There’s a hold/lien put against the production. There is a stiff fine paid out to the guild/union and there will be negations for release. If the conditions aren’t met, ALL productions with the company will be put on hold (indefinitely.) Even post-strike. No one can work for them. It becomes an official work-stoppage.…

NO. It is part of the studios’ collective bargaining. It applies to anyone at all. No changes. Even Equity. Writers can’t do writing but also Producers and Actors are not allowed. (In fact, if a producer, under normal situations, makes a change, he/she has to join the guild. I have a film where this has happened and…

They cannot. No one can. The scripts are frozen. No actor can change it and no director can suggest a line change. That is part of the collective bargaining. There can be no straying from the script made (now) 75 days ago. Something not working... no change.

UK Production doesn’t make the WGA strike less relevant. Equity doesn’t represent writers — only UK actors. Ryan Condal, Sara Hess, and George RR Martin are all WGA members for House of Dragons. WGA rules apply. For Dune Sisterhood, Diane Ademu-John, Kevin Anderson, and Brian Herbert are all WGA members. They are all…

The writers are still on strike. And writers on set are necessary (zero script changes and no ad-libbing are allowed during a strike.) I feel both productions are/are going to violate that.

It’s called “business class” because businesses pay for those seats. They also don’t pay full rate. The passenger can earn miles from that travel and, as would be expected, use that for their own flights — often at business or first levels. My job (actually my industry) has a required minimum travel-level of business…

The sponsors have no influence on the programming (I know the festival’s programmer.) It’s blind funding.

Guarantee WB didn’t change its mind. It’s probably being screened under the festival license (which allows you to do stuff like this.)