Posts by Sacha
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Uh, wouldn't that one be about residuals?
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All good. Asyncronous editing is still easier to follow here than threads elsewhere where later comments appear all over the place.
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Oi. My snap was to David's *original* comment about how to embed Youtube clips.
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I have also failed to go to the beach.
Writers are like that.Except on a storm-tossed night
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My mother had some interesting thoughts about this yesterday. She opined that perhaps PJ stirred up some stuff so that he could get the Gummint to pay for more of his film.
Marty at Te Standard agrees with her.
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Some missing points in coverage coming through now. Carefully worded NZPA story about retraction of blacklist, with quote from Helen Kelly:
"On Sunday October 17 Actors Equity advised the Screen Actors Guild to lift any international action that could impact on The Hobbit. Actors Equity has also confirmed that there will be no future action by actors which will impact on production of The Hobbit in New Zealand," she said.
"This statement has been made necessary because of continuing misconceptions in the media that this dispute remains unresolved.
"I sincerely hope Warners accept that assurance."
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A series of emails between Warner Bros and the American union the Screen Actors' Guild (SAG), sighted by NZPA, showed the two parties were discussing the wording of a press release announcing the settlement of the dispute from as early as Monday, US time.Despite this, another of the film's backers, New Line Cinema, said in a subsequent statement that reports the boycott of The Hobbit was lifted by unions a number of days ago and that Warner Bros asked to delay this announcement were false.
In separate story, Kelly apologises.
"I personally regret calling Peter Jackson a brat. That was not helpful," said Kelly. "I shouldn't have said that, because he is not a brat. He is clearly deeply hurt ... and it's not my style to usually get so personal."
However, she believed most New Zealanders supported the right to collectively bargain.
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Green MP Keith Locke expresses a union-oriented perspective on events most concisely.
To listen to some of the players involved in the Hobbit dispute over the last day you would think the actor’s union representatives had committed treason.
Actually, they were just trying to get a film company to talk about standardising conditions for actors. It wasn’t easy to get to the table, even with support from actor colleagues around the world, who put off signing up to the movie.
Eventually Actors Equity, with the support of the CTU, did make progress with the NZ industry body SPADA resulting in an MOU on how to work out standard terms and conditions for actors on productions like the Hobbit.
This eased the way for union assurances on a smooth Hobbit production, and an end to the international ban on actor recruitment.
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Am I right in reading that Commerce Act stuff above as being solely about price? Where do conditions fit in?