Posts tagged Movies
WGA Strike Closes Production of ‘The Office’ Down :(
04 years ago
by Erin
The one thing I was afraid of happening happened: production of The Office has stopped because Steve Carrell refuses to cross the picket lines:
After a 7am call time with a 9am crew call, after standing around for 7 hours at our location waiting for the studio to make a decision once it was realized that Steve Carell would, once again, not be crossing the picket line of the Writer’s Guild picketers, our producer called the entire crew into the set of Michael’s condo and announced that The Office is officially shutting down.
For how long? That’s really up to the producers and studio, I guess. I feel the writers have a valid claim. They want residuals for all content written and produced for “new media” (i.e. internet, itunes,cell phones, etc.) and they absolutely should fight for it because all media will be streamed this way in the future. Truth be told, the writers picketing right now aren’t gonna gain anything. They’re losing so much money by not working right now that any residuals they garner from this new media will never cover it. But that’s not really the point…
So, it sucks for us little people, but I’m not all that annoyed. I fully support the WGA, and the writers of The Office specifically. I wish them luck in their quest.
As for me, it’s back to the unemplyment line and the dayplayer world. Personally, I’m kinda excited. As long as I can keep busy, I’ll be aok and I can meet new people, catch up with old friends and still pay my rent every month.
Until this whole thing blows over anyhow.
That is all.
Thanks for the support and if you need a dayplayer, you best call me. I’m pretty awesome.
-Dan
From the Myspace blog of Dan Beals, a PA for the Office.
Hopefully they can get all of this sorted out soon 
Writer’s Strike
04 years ago
by Erin
I don’t know if it’s the same everywhere else in the world, but today in LA the big story is the Writer’s Guild of America strike. For now it will only affect somewhat live shows, most of our beloved sitcoms and scripted TV shows (probably) have enough episodes written ahead of time to weather the storm. Movie studios have plenty of scripts waiting to be produced. Honestly, I’m not a big fan of most of the late night talk shows (well, not enough to watch them regularly) and the like, so I don’t think this will affect me. But hopefully it doesn’t last long enough to prevent new episodes of my beloved The Office from airing! 
The New Chronicles of Narnia Movie!
04 years ago
by Erin
The new Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian movie debuted a little ditty at Comic-Con with some inside looks at the new story. I’m really excited for the new one! I loved the first one. Too bad that Caspian is a bit on the ugly side :3
Everyone who attended Comic-Con this past weekend was treated to a surprise introduction of Ben Barnes, live via satellite. Now, for the first time ever, check out footage from the film, including the big reveal of Ben as Prince Caspian! Listen to Ben discuss his role, and see Caspian in action!
**edit** urgh. The WP doesn’t like me embedding video. Click here to see the video.
