LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The de facto walk out in Hollywood may be slowly advent to an end, with several high-ticket studio projects starting production despite the stalemate in the Screen Actors Guild's contract negotiation.
Director Roland Emmerich began motion-picture photography his in style disaster mental picture "2012" in Vancouver this week. The Sony design, which testament feature heavy special personal effects, comes with a contingency plan in case of an actors walkout or strike.
On Wednesday, Walt Disney Co. CEO Robert Iger told investors, "We suffer decided to move forward with a number of our productions and address any issues later as they bob up." Disney's "Persia," which has begun motion-picture photography, also has some wiggle room since the studio has shifted the film's planned press release date by a year to May 2010.
A Universal executive aforementioned the studio has the Judd Apatow project "Funny People" and "Lost for Words" scheduled to shoot in September.
The studios, fearful of industrial military action, had lesion down production ahead of the June 30 termination of SAG's contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). On that date, the AMPTP presented its final offer to SAG, and some impatient members are forthwith demanding that SAG assign that offer up for ratification.
But on that point is a growing signified that the stalemate will extend through September, when the guild's leadership will be up for reelection. The election is likely to become a referendum on the bargaining committee's efforts to achieve a contract.
"Everyone is working under the assumption that aught will pass off until thither is an election and the results are known," said a source close to the AMPTP. "I think SAG thought, 'Let's drag this into July and August; let's force the studios to make a mistake. Maybe they'll impose, perchance they'll lock us out, and that will galvanise the members and then we'll
