Archive for July, 2008
July 30th, 2008
It looks like warring factions inside SAG have found some common ground vs the AMPTP. Finally, all the SAG board agrees that allowing SAG sanctioned, non-Union production and no residuals for certain so called new media production is a bad idea for actors. Daily Variety reporter and AMPTP fanboy, Dave McNary lays it all out [...]
Tags: AFTRA, AMPTP, CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS, Daily Variety, New Media, NOW MEDIA, SAG, Strike
Posted in Acting, Actors, AFTRA, Alan Rosenberg, AMPTP, Big Media, Daily Variety, Hollywood, NOW MEDIA, Producers, Residuals, SAG, Tommy G. Kendrick | No Comments »
July 28th, 2008
How quickly we (I) forget. Last Monday, July 21st, was the birthday of one of my all time favorite comedy actors, Don Knotts. He would have been 84 years old. In the midst of all the back and forth between SAG and the AMPTP and the internal bickering in SAG, it is easy to forget [...]
Tags: Acting, Actor, Don Knotts, Television
Posted in Actor, Actors, AMPTP, Andy Griffith Show, Don Knotts, Hollywood, Humor, Obituaries, Tommy G. Kendrick | 1 Comment »
July 28th, 2008
Rank Title Weekend Gross 1 The Dark Knight (2008) $75.6M $314M 2 Step Brothers (2008) $30M $30M 3 Mamma Mia! (2008) $17.9M $62.7M 4 The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008) $10.2M $10.2M 5 Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) $9.41M $60.2M 6 Hancock (2008) $8.2M $206M 7 WALL·E (2008) $6.35M $195M 8 [...]
Tags: Box Office, Daily Variety, DARK KNIGHT, Hollywood Reporter, Residuals
Posted in Box Office, Box Office Mojo, Daily Variety, DARK KNIGHT, Film Distribution, Producers, SAG | No Comments »
July 27th, 2008
Los Angeles, July 26, 2008 — The National Board of Directors of Screen Actors Guild passed the following resolution at its meeting today: It is a core principle of Screen Actors Guild –That no non-union work shall be authorized to be done under any Screen Actors Guild agreement and; That all work under a Screen [...]
Tags: AMPTP, CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS, New Media, Residuals, SAG
Posted in Actors, AFTRA, Alan Rosenberg, AMPTP, Big Media, Filmmaking, New Media, NOW MEDIA, Producers, SAG, Strike | No Comments »
July 25th, 2008
The following columm appears in The Dallas Morning News Online 08:49 AM CDT on Friday, July 25, 2008 By JOE O’CONNELL / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News filmnewsbyjoe at yahoo.com Don Stokes skipped junior- high classes to watch Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway succumb to a spray of bullets as Bonnie and Clyde. [...]
Tags: Austin Film Production, Don Stokes, Texas Film Incentives, Texas Film Production, TXMPA
Posted in Acting, Actors, Auditions, Austin Film, Austin Studios, Commercials, Don Stokes, Film Crew, Film Distribution, Filmmakers, Filmmaking, Indie Film, Producers, Right to Work, SAG, Tax Incentives, Texas film, Texas Film Production Fund, Texas Filmmakers, TXMPA | No Comments »
July 24th, 2008
Don Stokes has been in the film business in Dallas for many years. It looks like TXMPA should be in good hands under his leadership. Here is his recent letter to the masses: “It is my honor to be the newly elected President of TXMPA. Thanks to the leadership provided by past Presidents, Hector Garcia [...]
Tags: DON STOKES PRESIDENT, FILM DALLAS, Texas Film Production, TXMPA
Posted in Actors, Austin Film, Film Crew, Filmmakers, Filmmaking, Indie Film, Producers, Texas Actors, Texas film, Texas Film Production Fund | No Comments »
July 22nd, 2008
According to a blurb in today’s Austin American Statesman, Friday Night Lights will commence shooting for the new season on August 6th. As previously reported, the new season will first air on DirecTV where it will kick off on October 1st. Exec. Producer Jason Katims told AAS reporter Diane Holloway that the new episodes that [...]
Tags: Austin Film Production, DIRECTV, Friday Night Lights
Posted in Actors, Austin Actors, Austin Film, Austin Studios, Friday Night Lights, SAG, Texas Actors, Texas film, Texas Film Production Fund | No Comments »
July 21st, 2008
No movement. That’s all there is to report on the ongoing standoff between SAG and the AMPTP. Trade publications put attendance at Saturday’s SAG membership meeting in Hollywood at 450 – 750, depending on which industry rag you want to believe. The producer-friendly Daily Variety article actually has the attendance at the upper end of [...]
Tags: AFTRA, AMPTP, CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS, New Media, NOW MEDIA, SAG, Strike
Posted in Actors, AFTRA, Alan Rosenberg, AMPTP, Daily Variety, Hollywood, Hollywood Reporter, NOW MEDIA, Producers, Residuals, SAG, Strike | No Comments »
July 21st, 2008
One of the best reviewed films of the year had a stunning opening this weekend with an estimated take in excess of $155 million while playing on 4,366 screens. Apparently that wasn’t enough screens because the weekend was a virtual sellout and HOLLYWOOD REPORTER published a report of tickets selling on Ebay for around $50. [...]
Tags: Box Office, Daily Variety, DARK KNIGHT, Hollywood Reporter, Residuals
Posted in Big Media, Box Office, Box Office Mojo, Daily Variety, DARK KNIGHT, Deadline Hollywood Daily, Hollywood Reporter, Producers | No Comments »
July 18th, 2008
The following story on Amazon.com‘s new Video on Demand service appears in newspapers across the country today, 7/18/08. This is just one more example of where film and video distribution is headed. And it is one more example of why the AMPTP is trying to force feed a bad deal on Screen Actors Guild members. As [...]
Tags: Amazon.com, AMPTP, New Media, NOW MEDIA, SAG, Streaming Video, Video On Demand
Posted in AFTRA, Amazon.com, AMPTP, Big Media, Daily Variety, Filmmakers, New Media, NOW MEDIA, Producers, Residuals, Streaming Video, Strike, Tommy G. Kendrick, Writers | 1 Comment »