Archive for October, 2008

How Texas Can Save Its Film Industry

October 31st, 2008

Chris Garcia’s article in today’s AAS, comes across as a pretty negative assessment of the current state of affairs for Texas film production. All is not lost, but we’re at a critical juncture where we must have more help from the legislature. Click Here for Garcia’s Full Article in the American Statesman As movie production [...]

Friday Night Lights, Alliance Austin Meeting and Web Site Woes

October 29th, 2008

First…sorry for the outage today. My bandwidth has spiked and I outgrew my old hosting plan. In an effort to get things back up ASAP I’m afraid I probably made things worse and lengthened the process. With much thanks to the great support staff at Hostpc.com, I’m back online…for better or worse. FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS….SEASON 3 [...]

SAG Film Production List – Texas And Louisiana

October 10th, 2008

This is a partial list of signatory productions and productions that have begun but not completed the SAG signatory process. There are some productions missing from this list: ALABAMA MOON which is prepping to shoot in the New Orleans area (Covington) and is being directed by Tim McCanlies, is not on this list. Nor is [...]

Mysterious Site Interuption – Sorry

October 9th, 2008

Imagine my surprise when I found my site suspended this morning. Checked the billing…up to date. DOS? Who knows. A quick support ticket to HostPC and a fairly quick response had me back online with a ‘sorry for the inconvenience’ message from support. So…sorry for any inconvenience to visitors. For better or worse, txactor.com is back [...]

WGA Pickets Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta – House of (Writers) Pain

October 6th, 2008

No mainstream media outlets — People, CNN — even mentioned the WGA protest. And Barack Obama, though invited, did not attend the gala Atlanta event at Tyler Perry Studios. Here’s who did: Will Smith, Oprah Winfrey, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Cicely Tyson, Louis Gossett Jr, Holly Robinson Peete, Tracey Edmonds, music mogul L.A. Reid, singer [...]

SAG TO AMPTP: YOU WON’T TALK, WE’RE TAKING A STRIKE VOTE

October 2nd, 2008

Los Angeles, CA (October 1, 2008) – The National TV/Theatrical Negotiating Committee of Screen Actors Guild today passed the following advisory motion to the National Board: “Whereas, Screen Actors Guild has been and remains willing and able to continue formal and continuous negotiations with the AMPTP and the employers, with the intention of reaching a [...]