Posts by Neil Morrison
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from the Herald -
This was about the shooting of just two films.
just two films?? Two of the most expensive films every to be made.
There's been a hell of a lot of very poorly informed opinion about the flim industry.
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I've found Helen Kelly's actions the most depressing out of all of this. Labour have for a while gone for short term expediency but Kelly had a reasonable reputation. Unions will never win on not knowing what they're talking about.
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Philippa Boyens is already going through the script changing elvish bread to Mainland cheddar.
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I also think there's a very positive side to all of this...
It could work out better for NZ. A co-ordinated approach to leveraging NZ promotion off the back of the movies could be worth more than the extra we are now paying.
Unintended consequences.
Note to unions: get mandates, pick fights on behalf of workers not The Workers.
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well the alternative is to lose the film and the $500m which isn't going to help teachers or artists either. Some of the film workers will have children and now an income, some might spend that money on education and on the arts.
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So part of the deal is Jackson and Warners produce promotional material for NZ.
I have every confidence he'll do much better than Luhrmann who did much the same off the back of Australia and produced complete crap.
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Key off overseas, has to be good news or he'd have to stay and face the music.
or it's bad news and doesn't want to face the music
just covering the bases.
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It's not like Warners were going to suddenly expect contracts signed the next day.
Boycott lifted 20th, Martin Freeman confirmed 21st.
Every day that they couldn't sign actors was critical. They're trying to tie down a bunch of actors for up to 1 1/2 years, actors who have other opportunities and can't keep waiting for something that might not happen.
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I still think they got caught...
a far a I can tell what happened was that the studios were saying the boycott was still on during the few days between the unions' decision to lift it and when it was actually lifted. Specifically the SAG boycott.
it my appear to be a minor point but SAG actors cannot sign up until the boycott is lifted. Just the decision to lift does not grant them the legal right to sign without fear of disciplinary action.
But perhaps the studios were just heavy-handedly making sure the unions did do what they said they would and given how they have behaved that might be justified.
I'm not sure the studios were concerned with the unions claiming victory when it was a complete backdown and that Whipp and the MEAA would just make things up anyway. Or maybe they were worried about that. I don't know.
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I think the studios are quite happy to deal with a strong union - they do it all the time, what the don't want is to deal with a union that doesn't know what they're doing, acts in an impulsive manner and is being used as a vehicle for Whipp's ambitions.