Posts by Craig Ranapia
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And Union 101: if you want your POV in the media or to negotiate in good faith, return people's fucking calls.
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MEAA (Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance New Zealand Incorporated) is a registered union in New Zealand.
Except when it wasn't, and folks like Russell were being called liars for checking the Register of Incorporated Societies, the list of registered union on the DoL website and... Oh, why am I bothering? This is turning into trying to rationally engage with Master Baiter on Kiwibog.
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“Helen Kelly said NZ Performers want the movie made here as much as anyone, but let’s get all the facts on the table about taxes, subsidies, and other issues – rather than just blaming the union for asking to meet on basic terms and conditions”.
How about blaming the union for their own mixed messages, truthiness and general incoherence?
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Bloody Actors. How do we know this isn't just an act.It might be a workshop.
Site specific improvisational performance art!
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just a small thing, but the Kelly quote I saw refered to a lynch mob mood, not an actual lynch mob.
dunno if amping up such comments is particularly helpful.
Point taken, but FFS... what "mood" was that? Who was calling for making Kelly, Ward-Lealand and Simon Whipp dance from the nearest lamp post?
Sorry, Alan, but "lynch mob" was a pretty inflammatory and far from constructive term for Kelly to use, no matter how it was qualified or hedged around. As I said on the other thread, if Ann Tolley refused to meet teachers because she felt unsafe around people "wound up" by their union leadership and uppity principals and boards into a "lynch mob mood", Kelly would be the first person calling bullshit. And rightly so.
ETA: Something else - isn't Kelly supposed to be a professional advocate and communicator. I have to wonder.
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It's also generally not a good sign for a union leader, as Kelly did, to refer to the 1000-plus working people who met and marched in Wellington last night, most of them members of their own guilds and unions, as a "lynch mob".
Indeed - also not a good look to say people are refusing to engage in good faith, then calling them liars in the next breath. I'm sure plenty will beg to differ, but Kelly's performance on Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan was neither woman's finest hour.
If you're lurking, Helen, could you post a high-res scan of the press release Warner Brothers has been sitting on while you were gagged?
And do you think you might owe a public apology to Richard Taylor and the "lynch mob" he supposedly "wound-up" into a murderous frenzy?
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I'd say if you're the outfit contracting to produce the films, industrial relations stability would be a concern shared with its financial backers at the studios.
Well, yes. Especially when the highest profile actor in the cast is more likely to pray away his gay than commit career suicide by breaking a do not work order the union he's belonged to for over forty years is a party to.
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even though the union block was lifted over a week ago
Um, even Kelly isn't being that definitive. There was a "recommendation" made a week ago, which seems rather different from the do not work order being lifted. And if anyone -- including you, Helen -- could post a link to the text of the do not work order being lifted I'd be grateful.
Or since Kelly has already broken the gag Warner Brothers supposedly put on her and NZ Equity, how about a high quality scan of this press release?
If I'm force-fed any more fudge, I'm going to end up in a diabetic coma.
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Well if he was all about the money, he wouldn't have even tried to keep the film here.
If Jackson was "all about the money", he'd have moved into Roger Donaldson's spare room in La-La-Land long ago... I'll also take Jane Campion at face value when she says that if could have made a viable career in New Zealand, she'd have cheerfully done so.
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That said, I/S is also right that in the end it will have been Ireland's eagerness to offer even more incentives that is the endgame.
Really - and the existing infrastructure (I believe there's a lot of studio space just vacated by Harry Potter), favourable exchange rates and so forth are irrelevant? Do I think the tax breaks (which I've been highly critical of, FWIW) hurt? No, but I also think Jackson convincing New Line he could deliver three insanely ambitious, FX-heavy films on schedule and to a (comparatively) modest budget had something to do with it too.
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