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Film, TV production to resume as Hollywood unions announce pandemic agreement
AP ^ | 09 22 2020 | Staff

Posted on 09/22/2020 11:33:13 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

Hollywood’s unions have announced that they have reached an agreement on pandemic protocols with major studios that will allow the broad resumption of production of films and television after six months of stagnant sets and widespread unemployment.

The Directors Guild of America, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the Basic Crafts unions and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists on Monday jointly announced the deal reached with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers after months of planning and negotiating.

The deal includes mandatory and comprehensive use of personal protective gear and testing of cast and crew members, and a dedicated coronavirus supervisor to oversee it all.

It requires the use of a “zone system” that strictly limits interactions between people on sets based on their job’s requirements. Those who must deal with more people will be tested more frequently and have more strict protective equipment and spacing requirements. Actors will be tested especially often because their on-camera work won’t allow for many protective measures.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid19; hollywood; pandemic; unions
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Hollywood decides they're going to reopen during a pandemic.

Will the governor shut them down?

Maybe this could be a national model. Every industry decides they're going to reopen.

1 posted on 09/22/2020 11:33:13 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

The virus is smart.

Will kill you dead in church or a voting booth.

In a mostly peaceful BLM riot, playing NBA or making movies...it will just ignore you.


2 posted on 09/22/2020 11:35:49 AM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: yesthatjallen

We need to return to Medieval Guilds so that each industry can establish rules for their members. In the time of Great Plague such things just make good sense. My barber, Theodoric of York said so.


3 posted on 09/22/2020 11:36:31 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: yesthatjallen

How will they do the casting?


4 posted on 09/22/2020 11:37:30 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (evience)
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To: yesthatjallen
Too darn bad.
I was hoping the Hollyweirdos would stay closed forever.
5 posted on 09/22/2020 11:41:52 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: yesthatjallen

All wearing masks?


6 posted on 09/22/2020 11:42:26 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT The NFL, MLB, NBA & NASCAR! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Oh good.

They’ll finally be able to make that “Catwoman Licks Supergirl” movie.


7 posted on 09/22/2020 11:43:31 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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Sooooo....

Are all the feature films and TV series going to be made with properly worn masks and all the actors keeping adequate social distancing?

How many story lines are going to be fitted into those limitations? I don’t see many depictions of how a a love scene might be shown, or any close encounter in a brawl scene.


8 posted on 09/22/2020 11:46:33 AM PDT by alloysteel ("The Best Is Yet to Come "- theme of 2020 RNC)
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To: yesthatjallen

Yes, have they cleared this with their Democrat Dictators?


9 posted on 09/22/2020 11:47:09 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: yesthatjallen

Please, no more “Clutch Cargo” cartoon episodes of live action dramas.


10 posted on 09/22/2020 11:51:29 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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“I don’t see many depictions of how a a love scene might be shown”

Bold and the Beautiful took care of this issue in June.

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/06/18/The-Bold-and-the-Beautiful-employs-blow-up-doll-for-love-scenes/6551592508243/#:~:text=June%2018%20(UPI)%20—%20The,amid%20the%20COVID-19%20pandemic.&text=The%20show%20is%20resuming%20filming,the%20coronavirus%20outbreak%20in%20March.


11 posted on 09/22/2020 11:53:18 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: colorado tanker
Yes, have they cleared this with their Democrat Dictators?

Will anyone stop them?

Will Hollywood be deemed 'an essential service'?

Why can't every industry decide to reopen with their own precautions?

Will Hollywood get a special pass while every other industry is forced to remain closed?

12 posted on 09/22/2020 11:56:27 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Just blow up dolls? That’s old school these days no?


13 posted on 09/22/2020 11:59:17 AM PDT by xp38
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To: yesthatjallen

Darn.


14 posted on 09/22/2020 12:13:06 PM PDT by KittyKares (Drain the Swamp)
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To: 2banana

I guess instead of wearing G strings, they will now wear P strings (for pandemic).


15 posted on 09/22/2020 12:26:15 PM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media.)
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I take it then, that celebrities will stop doing abominations like this:

Celebrities sing beautiful 'Imagine' cover amid coronavirus crisis

This 'Imagine' Cover Is No Heaven - The New York Times

16 posted on 09/22/2020 12:39:19 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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just in time to implement the new oscar dicta regarding the necessary inclusion of large numbers of people of color, LBGTQWERTs, and the like in all movies ..


17 posted on 09/22/2020 12:47:42 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: yesthatjallen

bookmark


18 posted on 09/22/2020 1:30:42 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: xp38

Viewers allege that they did it well. :-)


19 posted on 09/22/2020 1:50:34 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: treetopsandroofs

Just a guess but the lenses must have been smeared with vaseline or something. Low lighting as well. :)


20 posted on 09/22/2020 1:53:00 PM PDT by xp38
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