How Texas Can Save Its Film Industry

POSTED BY txactor on Oct 31 under Acting, Actors, Auditions, Austin Actors, Austin Film, Austin Studios, Film Crew, Filmmaking, Friday Night Lights, Louisiana Film Production, New Mexico Film Production, TXMPA, Texas Actors, Texas Filmmakers, Texas film, Tommy G. Kendrick

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 scrambles to […]

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Friday Night Lights, Alliance Austin Meeting and Web Site Woes

POSTED BY txactor on Oct 29 under Acting, Acting Coaches, Actors, Agent, Auditions, Austin Actors, Austin Film, Casting Notices, Film Distribution, Filmmakers, Filmmaking, Friday Night Lights, Producers, SAG, SAG Membership, TXMPA, Texas Filmmakers, Texas film, Tommy G. Kendrick

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 […]

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SAG Film Production List - Texas And Louisiana

POSTED BY txactor on Oct 10 under Acting, Actor, Actors, Austin Actors, Austin Film, Casting Notices, Filmmakers, Filmmaking, Indie Film, Producers, SAG, TXMPA, Tax Incentives, Texas Actors, Texas Film Production Fund, Texas Filmmakers, Texas film, Tommy G. Kendrick

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 […]

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Mysterious Site Interuption - Sorry

POSTED BY txactor on Oct 9 under Actor, Tommy G. Kendrick

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 online.
Thanks […]

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

POSTED BY txactor on Oct 6 under Tyler Perry, WGA, Writers

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 […]

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

POSTED BY txactor on Oct 2 under AFTRA, AMPTP, Actors, SAG, SAG Membership, Strike

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 mutually-acceptable […]

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