We’re not quite sure how this fits in with SAG rules (but we suspect it doesn’t at all). The New York Times has a post on a relatively new casting system that seems like a slightly more protected, new video-only version of VoiceBank.
Without using the words, Variety suggests that for television production, film is dead (OK, barely breathing.) Everything’s gone digital. A snippet: Of the 31 new scripted series ordered by the broadcast nets, 25 will be shot in high-def digital video, including 16 of the 20 frosh dramas. Even the two new entries from Jerry Bruckheimer [...]
OK, this is more news media side than entertainment side, but the bottom line is the same. We’re delighted to see that a major figure in the content generation world has figured out that you can’t earn revenue from “free.” That it’s a figure at News Corp., which owns Fox, makes it even better. But [...]
While many of you have been continuing the remarkable and constructive dialogue on the subject of how it would be possible to merge SAG and AFTRA, the AFL-CIO has apparently been continuing to struggle with the problem of how to continue the rebuilding of the SAG-AFTRA relationship, given the disparagement and raiding problems created by some in [...]
Variety has a followup on our report noting that moderate John Wells would challenge hardliners for the WGA presidency being vacated by Patric Verrone, facing Elias Davis. The followup quotes Davis as saying that the Writers United slate will include Tom Shulman for VP and David Weiss for secretary-treasurer. Verrone, who led the WGA on [...]
