‘“San Andreas,” which despite being about an earthquake in California was filmed mostly in Australia.’
Also wasn’t all that good.
"That is bad news for people like Josh Viers, a concept artist for more than 25 years. He said he latched on to three major movie projects in the past six months but was cut prematurely on each one when the productions moved to England, Australia and Hungary.“I more or less have given my career, my life, to this industry,” said Viers, a 48-year-old father of two whose family lost its house in Altadena, Calif., during this year’s wildfires. “It just really hurts.”
One budget document viewed by The New York Times showed the cost of a seven-person set operations team — positions known as “grips” — to be roughly $59,000 for a 30-day shoot in Budapest…Because of health care, pension and other expenses, it costs about $53,000 to employ just one senior-level grip in Los Angeles for the same time frame…
“It’s criminal what California and L.A. have let happen — it’s criminal,” Lowe, the host of “The Floor,” recently quipped on his podcast. “Everybody should be fired.”
San Andreas… Alexandra Daddario!