Hollywood Fatigue...people flee California and is Hollyweird finished? Trump hits other non-Hollyweirdo movies with sanctions and 100% tariffs
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Hollywood crews are unemployed, fear LA's production decline - Los Angeles Times
By Kaitlyn Huamani | May 28, 2024, 3 AM PT
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-05-28/h
ollywood-crew-unemployed-fewer-jobs-la-production-decline
After more than two decades in the industry, Keith Dunkerley still loves nothing more than working on a set. The 47-year-old director of photography and camera operator, who’s had consistent work since he moved to Los Angeles 23 years ago, said his is “the best job in the world.”
Since the writers’ and actors’ strikes last year and the slow restart of production, though, Dunkerley said his work opportunities look quite different than in past years: He has worked only 18 days during the first five months of 2024.
“People outside the business don’t understand this is not a factory,” Dunkerley said. “It’s not like, ‘OK, the strike’s over, go back to the factory, turn the lights on and get the machines going.’ A lot of us knew it’s going to take some time to ramp things up.”
While Dunkerley supported his family through savings and odd jobs as a handyman on TaskRabbit during the strikes, the sluggish rebound has been difficult for him. He’s recently made more than 60 calls to friends and industry contacts to look for prospects.
What Dunkerley is experiencing is a part of the massive ripple effect of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes that is still affecting tens of thousands of people working in entertainment and adjacent industries. Crew members, especially, have been hit hard.
“I am currently in the worst place I’ve ever been in my entire life financially,” said Heather Fink, a boom operator and director. “The industry is in a crisis. It is not back to normal. We are in debt.”
Heather Fink, in a white tank top and headphones, holds a boom mic on set.
Heather Fink has been working in sound departments consistently for 14 years, but she said the strikes left her financially vulnerable. “There’s simply not enough work out there,” she said.
(John Ales)
FilmLA, a nonprofit that tracks on-location permitting in the city, released a report in April that revealed a slow bounceback in production after the dual strikes. Local on-location filming in the first quarter of the year was down 8.7% from the first quarter of 2023. Television production was especially impacted, with production falling 16.2% from last year.
Paul Audley, the president of FilmLA, said these findings are startling when considering that film and television production saw a “retraction” at the start of 2023 in anticipation of the looming writers’ strike.
“What we’re facing is a combination of effects of the studios, as well as the streamers, cutting back not only the number of series they produced but in some cases the number of episodes they’re producing for shows,” Audley said.
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With scarce work opportunities, many crew members are concerned about how they will maintain their health insurance, which is often directly tied to the number of hours they work. Those who have coverage with the Motion Picture Industry Pension and Health Plans must work 400 hours in a six-month period to maintain their insurance. Many veteran crew members, like hairstylist and department head Jason Orion, who’s worked on shows including “Grey’s Anatomy,” said he has never been close to losing his coverage until now.
Orion was able to keep his health insurance thanks to a job on “9-1-1.” He said because he worked down to the wire before the 2007-08 writers’ strike, he thought he’d be busy until the strikes officially began. In reality, he had “an almost nonexistent beginning of 2023.” Even the shows and films shooting in L.A. now have slashed many departments, he added, noting sets that historically employed 20 hairstylists now have just two or three.
Orion said “9-1-1” was a “very hard show,” noting that crew member Rico Priem recently died in a car accident after pulling a 14-hour overnight shift. “We were all tired,
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the media and Hollyweird trash Sound Of Freedom and movies like FNAF because the guy linked to the Game might be somewhat Conservative or Supporting Trump?
South Korea dominates, US indie movies want to win, European independent movies, India Bollywood, South Korean tv, Japan anime.
Hollywood is getting its ass kicked
studios invest in Thailand
Taklee Genesis - Warner Bros
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Hollywood crews are unemployed, fear LA's production decline - Los Angeles Times
By Kaitlyn Huamani | May 28, 2024, 3 AM PT
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-05-28/h
ollywood-crew-unemployed-fewer-jobs-la-production-decline
After more than two decades in the industry, Keith Dunkerley still loves nothing more than working on a set. The 47-year-old director of photography and camera operator, who’s had consistent work since he moved to Los Angeles 23 years ago, said his is “the best job in the world.”
Since the writers’ and actors’ strikes last year and the slow restart of production, though, Dunkerley said his work opportunities look quite different than in past years: He has worked only 18 days during the first five months of 2024.
Yup. It's not like we didn't tell you this was going to happen.
Congrats on the "win".
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
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this kinda looks funny
maybe comedy is not dead yet
The Franchise
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Dexerto entertainment news website headquartered in London
Borderlands movie loses almost $100 million in one of 2024’s biggest flops
https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/borderlands-movie-loses-almost-100-m
illion-in-one-of-2024s-biggest-flops-2899653/
and in the gaming industry, games people bought are shut down
the online room is shut down, a product they paid for doesn't work so a new petition in Europe
A new petition needs 1,000,000 signatures to stop publishers killing games
Stop Destroying Videogames wants to avoid what happened to The Crew (European Citizens’ Initiative).
https://metro.co.uk/2024/08/01/a-petition-needs-1-000-000-signatures-s
top-publishers-killing-games-21340968/?ico=metro-posts_home_whats-trending-now
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I'm normally not a fan of noisy punk but the final curtain on Hollyweird deserves a song
maybe the gaming industry and almost every other industry will go the same way
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People Are Contrasting The "Joker 2" Box Office Flop Discourse With How We Talk About Female-Led Movies
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/people-contrasting-joker-2-box-174
003083.html
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The decline of Hollywood in one chart
https://www.businessinsider.com/hollywood-losing-dominance-tv-movies-e
mployment-chart-2024-10
The news isn't great for New York, either.
The No. 2 entertainment-job market in the US (after LA) also saw its share of film and TV jobs dip. The rest of the country's portion, meanwhile, rose to 69% from 54% two years earlier, the analysis found.
Leaving Los Angeles: Why the film industry is ditching Hollywood
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/leaving-los-angeles-why-film-10030
1486.html
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Box Office: ‘Kraven the Hunter’ Aims for Weak $15 Million in Opening Weekend
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/box-office-kraven-the-hunter-openin
g-weekend-projection-1236243923/
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as LA still burns and fires spread across California, 'The Show Must Go On'
Will sometimes Chinese language films knock some Hollyweird stuff out of the top10 or Top25 in world wide earnings, don't expect froeign language films to win. British English speaking movies, Australian, Canadian, French movies, Brazilian, South Korean film, Japanese, German, China films all had trouble breaking into the US market.
can foreign produced foreign directed movies flood a market and be a major hits in the United States?
Tinsel town even cancels their own US industry, the market is not as open and free as people would like you to believe ...see how the tried to end Sound of Freedom or
Five Nights at Freddy's
in fact the market might have its own pervert thought police and the USA have its own cancel culture far worse than Socialism of Communist nations
breaking in to the market and selling high, it seems unlikely
However slowly Japan cartoonists and the guys doing South Korean tv seem to be starting to figure stuff out.
but its possible China will try to knock Hollywood films down again and gain better earnings
Detective Chinatown 1900
Animation - DEEP SEA
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