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Bollywood Shuts Down Indefinitely as Workers Go on Strike

2008-10-01 12:59:42 by Sean in Film Junk
 
...workers went out on strike in India today, as a protest to irregular wages and the failure of producers to follow an agreement that was signed a year and a half ago. All shoots have been shut down for the time being while talks continue to resolve the situation India produces about 1,000 films a year, which means that theres really no time to...
 
Tags: movie, indias movie industry, movie ticket sales, strike, american movie industry, bollywood, india produces, india, talks continue
 
 
 
 
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Cancelled Golden Globes Costs LA Workers $80 Million

2008-01-10 23:12:14 by John Campea in The Movie Blog
 
...workers are normally busy this week preparing elaborate floral arrangements that studios ship to the hotel rooms of Globe nominees. Even more elaborate displays are readied for the eventual winners. Not this year. I would say it will probably affect us to the extent that well be down about 40 to 50 percent, said owner George Woods So far, it...
 
Tags: globes, million, wga, wga leaders pat, globes night, wga decision, decision, lost, eighty million dollars
 
 
 
 
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'Front of the Class' needs construction workers

2008-09-15 14:17:00 by Alexandyr Kent in Louisiana Movies: Glamour, Geeks and Gumbo
 
The Hallmark movie "Front of the Class" is currently shooting in The Shreve. Glorioso Casting needs extras to play construction workers Saturday. Call Andrei or Kate if you can work: 318.603.4560
 
Tags: hallmark movie, front, call andrei, class, extras, glorioso, shreve
 
 
 
 
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Metropolis: A Film Far Ahead of its Time

2007-12-20 11:59:54 by Gautam in Broken Projector
 
...workers labour in 10-hour shifts repeatedly to survive while the upper-class citizens called the Thinkers lead a life of luxury and endless entertainment. The city is run by Johann Joh Frederson, who also designed it The workers are planning a revolt against Frederson but they are convinced by Maria, an evangelical figure, that they must...
 
Tags: film, metropolis, workers move, workers, science fiction film, gigantic silent film, workers labour, workers city, conversation freder throws
 
 
 
 
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Strike Fever Hits Bollywood

2008-10-02 13:01:26 by Sam Sloan in Slice of SciFi
 
...workers from 22 different unions walked out on Wednesday literally shutting down Indias film industry completely. The workers included extras, background singers and frontline dancers, as well as technical crews ranging from props, lighting and camera operations Bollywood had about 40 films in production this week and each have shut down...
 
Tags: workers, film workers demands, strike, strike fever, workers voted, wait, wait 3-months, reduce on-the-job injuries, months
 
 
 
 
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The Letter (1940)

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2008-03-03 13:13:00 by Campaspe in Self-Styled Siren
...workers stir, then the camera moves in toward the plantation house and shows a man who clutches himself as he staggers down the steps, Bette Davis in pursuit as she empties her revolver into him, her face an impassive executioner's mask that each viewer must spend the rest of the movie interpreting But that's the socko finale to the...
 
Tags: davis, davis wears, bette davis, letter, leslie, meal leslie cooks, leslie wait, poor bette davis, leslie unsheaths
 
 
 
 
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8/11: British Sounds

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2008-08-11 22:08:00 by Ed Howard in Only The Cinema
...workers discussing working conditions and the possibility of socialism; some Maoist students trying to rewrite Beatles songs with more revolutionary lyrics; a bloody hand in the snow reaching for a red flag These images are simple in every sense. Each image communicates a single idea or documents a single situation, and the aesthetics with...
 
Tags: film, revolutionary film, british, revolutionary purpose, purpose, sounds, film passion, british sounds, film remains
 
 
 
 
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Polish Documentaries: Place of Residence (1957)

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2008-09-30 23:06:13 by Michael Brooke in Kinoblog
...workers being eulogised as heroic exemplars of Peoples Poland - and, to no-ones surprise, uncovers what after three years of the black series is an all too familiar chasm between official rhetoric and observed reality We first see a group of men heading to what appears to be some kind of employment office - a nearby tannoy is broadcasting...
 
Tags: black series, black, fellow workers, workers, workers accommodation, black series documentaries, nearby tannoy, tannoy, 1950s
 
 
 
 
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Bollywood Strike Over

2008-10-05 08:58:53 by Sam Sloan in Slice of SciFi
 
...Workers returned to work on at least 40 films and a bevy of television shows currently in production on Saturday Studio producers will now pay workers within two weeks after a project is completed instead of the standard 3-months that use to be common practice. Workers also got their work-day cut down to 12-hrs from 18. One other detail that...
 
Tags: strike, workers, producers, bollywood strike, studio producers, friday night, film employees, friday, union
 
 
 
 
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Kurosawa Blog-a-Thon: All Work and No Play...

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2007-11-22 08:19:05 by Thom in Film of the Year
...workers relocated to Tokyo to make optical instruments for military aircraft in the latter days of World War II. Think of it as a tragic spin on Rosie the Riveter propaganda Japanese style. At the onset, these dedicated factory women are charged with increasing productivity 50%, and desperate to overcome tedium, illness, injury and separation...