looser
join:2001-02-04
La Mesa, CA
| Union Buster's
I worked on sets, both movie and Tv and I'm here to tell you that most of jobs have gone to Vancouver, B.C. as well as Australia and other areas in the last 20 yrs that I Know of, and that a lot of other set jobs has gone to outside contractors "no-union", they are called 2 gator jobs. This outsorcing of jobs was going on long before the internet was what it is now, so all you arm chair quarterbacks posting how pirate's killed the movie industry is so far off base it's unreal, unless of course you busted ass all day running crates. Then you you would know that cost cutting comes from the top down, faster cheaper sound familiar? I would say about all jobs in Americe are facing the same thing, but because of pirates I would say,ya right whatever you say there big guy. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·DSL EXTREME
| I would tend to agree... all industry will ALWAYS move to where they can make a larger profit. Southern California is WAYY to expensive for most business other than sales. As a Canadian living in So. Cal, the prices here run most businesses out of state and country.
As far as business lost... they didn't account in for the businesses that gained from this sort of thing. Security companies (tech), lawyers (and there's lots of them), and many 'outsourced' companies. |
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HiVolt
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join:2000-12-28
Toronto, ON
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·Bell Sympatico
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said by looser  :I worked on sets, both movie and Tv and I'm here to tell you that most of jobs have gone to Vancouver, B.C. as well as Australia and other areas in the last 20 yrs that I Know of I work near the movie district in Toronto, Canada, and they are getting very little work these days, all because of the exchange rate. It was cheap to make movies/shows here when our dollar was weak, now that its 90c to the US dollar, they're pulling out.
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Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
·Qwest.net
| Since the very beginning the movie industry has been a cut-throat affair. Studios screwing actors, directors, writers and craft people. Each group trying to get a bite out of each other, back stabbing, political black listing, towering egos, and crooked money. for large part of the stateside movie industry history it was run almost like organised crime, indeed in the 30's some of the studios had mobsters as executives and money people. When ever you see a 1930's and 40's RKO pictures production keep in mind the K in RKO stands for Kennedy, as in Joseph Kennedy, the Petrarch of the Kennedy family, who got rich as part of the Irish mafia bootlegging during Prohibition. Enron should have used the book keepers for the studios they have taken art of cooking the books to a advanced stage. With their help Enron would still be in business today.
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