Posts by Jeremy Eade
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Australian Unionism is very different, from what I hear, more powerful than ours, yet still, they have the high wages.
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Let's' not forget how this Industry works.From Bloomberg.July 15, 2009
"Tolkien’s works already have a litigation history. Peter Jackson, who directed all three “Rings” films, sued New Line in 2005, claiming the studio miscalculated his proceeds from the first movie. They settled for an undisclosed sum in 2007.
The accounting methods used by New Line Cinema, the Time Warner unit that made the movies, will face a jury’s scrutiny in October, when the heirs’ lawsuit against the New York-based media company is set for trial in Los Angeles Superior Court.
The case, if not settled by then, may provide a window into accounting practices that let Time Warner deny proceeds of the Oscar-winning films to Tolkien’s heirs. The litigation also threatens to derail two “The Hobbit” films that, if their predecessors are a guide, could generate $4 billion in sales.
“Usually it’s not outright thievery by the studios, but death by contract,” said Pierce O’Donnell, the Los Angeles- based lawyer who represented the late columnist Art Buchwald in a successful case against Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures in 1988. “It’s an esoteric world where black doesn’t mean black, and white doesn’t necessarily mean white.”
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Bloody Actors. How do we know this isn't just an act.It might be a workshop.
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I think U.S unions are not happy at seeing work going to cheap foreign labour because those jobs don't get replaced and they are union,why would they support an iniative to hire workers at below union rates.
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For the record I'd hate to lose this movie and Peter Jackson is a genuis.
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Can I be the dragon?
Fuck Yeah.
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Yeh, but they slow shit down all the time, they rip their own people off, they can movies. ...but I understand your point, big money wets itself because no one wants to own the next "Heavens Gate" .
This is a strange industry.
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Unions have always had a commitment to cross borders if needs be, they are worker conscious , not fundamentally nationalistic.
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Don't worry Andre, I've already started filming the "new" New Zealand version secretly in my backyard. It'll be out in a week.
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Our damaged union movement can compliment our damaged business sector.