Yeah, I don't know the answer either ... but runaway production is real, and it not just hammering Hollywood anymore as more and more shows head offshore chasing bribes and lower labor costs. An old friend of mine, now a big-time rigging gaffer (he works on a lot of Marvel crap and "Jurassic Park" level tentpoles) was on a show in Atlanta a few months ago. Ordinarily, those gigs have him telling tales of woe about the unmotivated local work force down there who routinely made his job twice as hard ... but his time he was chirping like a Robin who'd just eaten a dozen worms. "It's the easiest job I've ever done down here," he told me ... and bear in mind that he'd been getting so much work there over the past ten years that he bought a condo to stay in during the shoots, and to rent to other film workers when he was on location. This job was easy because it was the only show in town, so he had all the best local juicers on his crew -- guys who know what they're doing and are motivated to do the job right. After so many years of being the beneficiary of productions fleeing Hollywood for the financial perks of shooting in Georgia, it seems that many productions that might have been done in Atlanta are now heading overseas.
It's not just Hollywood's problem anymore.
That said, I don't see how tRump's plan -- such as it is -- to tariff movies made elsewhere would work. I guess we'll find out...
I suspect/hope this is one of those "Art of the Deal" things, where he says something crazy just to see how people react, and then pulls back to a (hopefully) better position.
Yeah, I don't know the answer either ... but runaway production is real, and it not just hammering Hollywood anymore as more and more shows head offshore chasing bribes and lower labor costs. An old friend of mine, now a big-time rigging gaffer (he works on a lot of Marvel crap and "Jurassic Park" level tentpoles) was on a show in Atlanta a few months ago. Ordinarily, those gigs have him telling tales of woe about the unmotivated local work force down there who routinely made his job twice as hard ... but his time he was chirping like a Robin who'd just eaten a dozen worms. "It's the easiest job I've ever done down here," he told me ... and bear in mind that he'd been getting so much work there over the past ten years that he bought a condo to stay in during the shoots, and to rent to other film workers when he was on location. This job was easy because it was the only show in town, so he had all the best local juicers on his crew -- guys who know what they're doing and are motivated to do the job right. After so many years of being the beneficiary of productions fleeing Hollywood for the financial perks of shooting in Georgia, it seems that many productions that might have been done in Atlanta are now heading overseas.
It's not just Hollywood's problem anymore.
That said, I don't see how tRump's plan -- such as it is -- to tariff movies made elsewhere would work. I guess we'll find out...
I suspect/hope this is one of those "Art of the Deal" things, where he says something crazy just to see how people react, and then pulls back to a (hopefully) better position.