from: Jonathan Handel, HollywoodReporter.com — The $200,000 fund will support grants up to $4,800 per person to respond to what one official called “an epic storm with devastating consequences.” The SAG Foundation and the Screen Actors Guild Motion Picture Players Welfare Fund have created a Superstorm Sandy Emergency Assistance Fund to provide financial support...
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from: Richard Verrier, LA Times — Hollywood’s largest guilds and unions are calling on their members to vote against Proposition 32, a ballot measure they maintain will sharply limit their political freedoms. The Directors Guild of America, SAG-AFTRA, IATSE, Professional Musicians Local 47, Teamsters Local 399 and IBEW Local 40 said they are actively working...
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from: ShootMoviesInCalifornia.com — Guess what? Tomorrow we are going to vote for many things besides which man is going to be President for the next 4 years. Assembly District 50 which is pictured below (where I happen to live) is the home to many people in the film industry. {West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades, Topanga, Agoura...
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from: Eriq Gardner, HollywoodReporter.com — For some in the entertainment industry looking to recover losses due to the devastating hurricane that hit the Northeast earlier this week, a broken construction crane dangling a thousand feet in the air is emblematic. The broken crane loomed for days above West 57th Street in Manhattan within proximity of Carnegie Hall....
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from: Richard Verrier, LA Times — Five soldiers dressed in camouflage and carrying machine guns took cover behind a stack of wooden pallets. One yelled “incoming” and a few seconds later a large explosion ignited behind them, setting off a ball of flame rising 30 feet high. The soldiers fell to the ground from the force of the blast, a concoction of black powder...
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from: FilmWorksLA.com — From August to November 2011, Ben Affleck’s Argofilmed in Los Angeles and spent $31,049,818. Filming locations in the Los Angeles area included a Veterans Affairs facility in North Hills (depicted as the U.S. Embassy in Tehran), a private home in Hancock Park (Canadian ambassador’s house), Ontario International Airport (Tehran...
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