Posted on 09/26/2010 11:17:11 AM PDT by SMCC1
"Perhaps Bilbo Baggins' tale of wanderlust won't be leaving the Shire after all. Numerous international unions, including SAG and AFTRA, have sent out alerts advising members to ditch work on Peter Jackson's highly anticipated production of The Hobbit."
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The Indian deal for MGM has been rejected.
>They run out of scripts, and can’t bring in the talent they want to make their shows
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I will have to disagree with this Nachum. Overall, I agreed with your post but the notion that the industry is running out of scripts isn’t true. The studio execs HAVE the money to buy ANY spec script they want but they are either one, too narrow-minded and lazy to read them and 2, too cheap and dont want another WGA member bitching about their status to the studio execs. Plus the agents in Bev Hills, say CAA, are arrogant pricks.
The talent is abundant too. The problem is the system has been set up due to...politics. Liberal politics.
You’re right about that. Perhaps I should have said that they have scripts, but not the actors to perform.
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