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-Blackadder- posted:Since he liked this one so much I was thinking of trying to find him more shows abut conspiracies. He loves those alien conspiracies shows. He's already seen X-Files so that's a no go, but anything else could work. I bet he'd love Fringe and Person of Interest
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Simone Magus posted:I don't wanna know anybody who watches Patriot and goes "nah" I always warn people that it takes two episodes to settle into its tone. The end of the first episode is really dark for John’s character, even though it sets up great pieces later.
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Travelers was really precious with its cast and their characters lingered on, sucking up screen time with tedious inane plots.
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May 8, 2021 08:10
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I'm happy to relay batshit PoI set stories; I have several friends who worked on it. The conditions were nightmarish and 16-18 hour days were not irregular. It was a revolving door of hirings, firings, and resignations because it was the biggest and worst game in town at the time.
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May 19, 2021 03:40
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X-O posted:Ah, origin films for characters nobody wants to see the origins of. Thanks for being you Hollywood. As long as it concludes with him changing his name to Wilford and getting really into trains, I'll be good.
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Azhais posted:Beyond all that, why the gently caress did it take 10 hours of shooting to get 90 seconds of video That's not rare for big budget TV. Stunts take a while.
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Escobarbarian posted:I like the idea that the main Netflix twitter account gets its stats from other Netflix twitter accounts. Gotta justify having 12,000 employees somehow.
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bull3964 posted:Noticed my year of Peacock was expiring July 15th so I'm powering through what meager content they have. Girls5ever was pretty enjoyable. That was something that would have been my make or break based on the cast and they landed just the right group. I fell off after four episodes when they didn't have anything hit as hard as the 9/11 joke. 30 Rock had the perfect balance between transgressive humor, rapid fire jokes, and sentimentality.
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Arist posted:Lmao, I just looked up how many episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants have aired since that show started in 1999 as a reference point. 267, only six more. Regular Show is half the running time though
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cant cook creole bream posted:Just watched the first episode of the flight attendant. It's good. Kayle Cuco is great, and I am glad that The Big Bang Theory is dead. It's good, we worked really hard on it! We had to shoot two episodes mid-pandemic!
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Open Source Idiom posted:Anything cool you've done recently (that you can talk about) ? The Ray Donovan Finale has had more fake rain than I have ever seen in a production.
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Escobarbarian posted:https://twitter.com/amcplus/status/1412152051426021382?s=21 Ugh wtf is AMC+? Can a real network please develop the next Conrad project?
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On one hand, the serial narrative was good because the cast was amazing. On the other, it was just soooooo clunky tying all those individual stories together. It's pretty on brand with what authors like Asimov and Vance had to do in spinning short stories into novels, but it left a lot on the table in terms of needing to use screen time to tie the stories into each other versus more deeply investigating the themes of each episode. e: Wow, they cancelled it two weeks before the nominations were released? Baffling. theflyingexecutive fucked around with this message at 06:51 on Jul 14, 2021 |
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Azhais posted:If you're really into t-posing watch raised by wolves first I burst out laughing the first time I saw that.
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Hughmoris posted:
Anybody seen Conrad’s new show the uhhhhhhh puppet crime musical?
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Arist posted:Hey man, they'd already built the loving stadiums, sunk cost fallacy is a hell of a thing The purpose of the stadiums is to displace affordable housing by eviction and clear the land for redevelopment. If there had been a need for a stadium, it would've existed already. That's also the reason you hear lots of stories about the stadiums/facilities being poorly built; they're already planning to tear them down to build luxury high rises.
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X-O posted:I can't believe that it took an actual pandemic to happen for that FINALLY come to realization. And it looks really good! They were shooting before Covid, not sure if they finished principal before the shutdown though.
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Rhyno posted:Then why are there so many derelict, abandoned Olympic facilities still standing? It was profitable when they planned it, profitable for the multinational contractors who built it, and less profitable years later after the Olympics came and went.
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Just make a White Lotus thread please
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Escobarbarian posted:I know nobody watched this except for me but Betty got cancelled and I am VERY SAD ABOUT IT Awwww that was one of the jobs I was most proud to have worked on (S1). Really great crew. Ask me about leaving a party at 3am to shoot half of the Williamsburg Bridge scene at 4 
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:It should also be noted that Cruise doing his own stunts is “good for the production” because it means they don’t have to pay stunt doubles and it’s actually kind of lovely for Cruise to be stealing their work. Film crew member checking in: 1. They absolutely have one or more stunt doubles on the clock in full HMUW for exigent circumstances. From my personal experiences, Chris Meloni did 95% of his own stunts and fights on Happy, but there was a double there ready to go every single day in a bald cap and Happy had maybe 1% of the budget of a M:I. 2. There's absolutely a huge stunt rigging team for safety and setup of the stunts themselves 3. Those doubles, coordinators, and riggers absolutely were present for Cruise's stunt training and rehearsals, for which there were probably more prep days than would be had filming traditionally with doubles. 4. The stunt team absolutely had to be bigger because it was Cruise himself doing the stunts and the margin of safety had to be greater than if it were an anonymous, replaceable stuntie doing it. Tldr: Cruise doing his own stunts let that department buy a lot of houses.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Like I said, I think she's great -- though in two of those shows she was hampered by poor writing. Rose Leslie had to emotionally justify the main villain's motives in a single episode of Utopia, she was awesome.
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What I would give for some of my favorite shows to have had even 21 episodes, much less 121. It's easy to remember the terrible parts of Lost, then the really fun parts, but boy oh boy was there so much filler.
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Open Source Idiom posted:They just started filming. Lol at spelling "principal" wrong
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swickles posted:I don't know if seats like that have the character name or the actor name normally, but it made me think it was a picture of a set on the show, that they are goijg to make an Avenue 5 movie/documentary to fund a rescue effort or something like that. It’s character name for the principals and then just “CAST” for the dayplayers.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:john Mulaney does the same thing and people are cool with him apparently, Hollywood is a land of contrasts Mulaney had been separated from his wife for over a year; the tabloids just made it seem like he'd been cheating or planning.
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Cojawfee posted:Doing a fall and spring 26 episode season is easier to do when you've got a sitcom with a couple major sets and it's just situation of the week stuff. Nowadays, every major show has a bunch of special effects even if you don't realize it. A regular drama show might have a crazy green screen shot where they replace the background with a bustling city background. I still have no idea how the hell they made 26 episode Star Trek seasons in the 90s. Some network jobs (even ones with vfx) have postpro delivery as slim as a week or two. Narrative TV is only limited by how quickly writers can pump out scripts and how many shooting hours (i.e. number and complexity of camera setups and locations) the studio wants to give a director. soap operas shoot an episode a day or more. (Network TV is 8-10 days of shooting per hour)
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Iron Crowned posted:I seem to remember some article I read in the 90's about TNG, because I was that nerd, and they were working on 3 episodes at a time. One in pre-production, one in production, and one in post-production. This is standard for network shows. There are two teams consisting of a director, two assistant directors, and a director of photography: one for even episodes and one for odd episodes. Let's say an even episode starts shooting, so the odd team (and a producer) will go out on a director's scout, where the director will pick which locations they want to film in and the ADs and DP will roughly compute how much time each scene will take given the locations and script requirements. After this, you'll get some script revisions where things like "EXT NYC ALLEY" become "EXT NYC SIDEWALK" because Manhattan has a grand total of 4 alleys. A couple days later, when the locations are mostly chosen and booked, the odd team and the department heads (art, props, grip, electric, transpo, etc) will go on a tech scout and determine what is needed in terms of manpower, background, and extra equipment. This is where the director and DP will roughly frame in what shots they want to do for the ADs to schedule. Then a couple days later, the even episode wraps and the teams flip between shoot and prep. The even director will leave to oversee editing and post, the odd director will shoot, and the even ADs and DP will start prep with a new director. Now that's the network standard. But when you have streaming where a whole season is dropped at once or a shorter season with more cinematic qualities (read: expensive), this changes. Many jobs choose to block shoot, where the teams will take two or three episodes to shoot at a time (especially in half hour shows). I just worked on a wild HBO job where they shot all ten episodes like a movie with the same directorial team at the same time.
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DaveKap posted:If you can find some cast interviews on YouTube, you'll hear every once in a while that they'd work 18 hour days. Unions kinda make TNG an impossibility nowadays. Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah And IATSE was founded in the 19th century. Check out @ia_stories on IG if you want to know why I laughed so hard. An 18 hour day is very unusual for an actor though, unless you have 3 hours of prosthetic MU pre call and an hour and a half of removal after wrap theflyingexecutive fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Oct 1, 2021 |
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And production assistants! Fun fact: The Directors Guild of America encompasses not only directors and assistant directors (the two most different jobs in the entire industry), but also Unit Production Managers, which is one step below Line Producer (and sometimes the LP is the UPM). Guess which role has a fundamental, built-in opposition to paying PAs a living wage and enforcing the DGA guild regulations (i.e. making it so that PAs don't perform AD duties).
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Gaius Marius posted:Strikes are great and all, but this isn't gonna effect better call Saul is it? 
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Khanstant posted:They should just give into the demands and avoid the strike, seems easy and makes everyone happy. But we simply have no idea if streaming video, sorry, "New Media" can be successful or profitable and the unions need to take a pay cut until we can get this all sorted out.
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Aardvark! posted:first time rewatching 30 Rock after first watching it 2 years ago and oh my god there's so many jokes I never noticed the first time through She said she had to take a spa week at Canyon Ranch before my dad broke it in half. I'm not supposed to hear that. I'm a child!
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AceOfFlames posted:I had never heard of options on actors before. Am I correct in saying that you are essentially paying for the rights to use an actor during a certain period…but you’re not paying them directly? Who are you paying then, their agent? Wouldn’t it be simpler to pay them even if they are not working (insert late capitalist mouth foaming). This sounds asinine. No, the actors are getting paid and the agents get their 10% out of that For TV, the studio wants to make sure they have the actors for as long as the script calls for them, so they set a deal where for year one, the lead gets $1m, then year two, they get $1.5m and so on for however many years and however many principals. No matter how many scenes they’re actually in, they’re held to that contract and can’t go shoot something with a conflicting schedule until they’re released. Because the schedule is yearly and escalates, and due to the delays, FX has paid out two years already and had no idea if paying out a third year would have been worth it because only a handful of episodes have aired so far. Selling the show to another studio lets them recoup their investment and releases them from risk of ballooning cast contracts in the face of a potentially unpopular show. $3m for cast options sounds very low to my production budget brain, but either way, HBO Max or whomever can renegotiate the options based on their risk analysis. Side note: options contracts are what are currently loving up working conditions on set and why IATSE threatened to strike. Because bigger actors are limited to working on other jobs outside of their contractual obligations, agents negotiate shorter windows for other jobs, so you end up with ridiculous poo poo like a job having to shoot 45 script pages with x actor in four weeks because they have to go back to their optioned job in a month. Because that deadline is so strict, you either have to cut script or shoot 16 hour days to do it. theflyingexecutive fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Oct 19, 2021 |
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dorium posted:https://www.gq.com/story/inside-amazons-wheel-of-time I’ve had the very very sad experience of watching a showrunner I like deflate in real time under the weight of studio pressure, going from very sparkly and bubbly on his first showrunner job to husk-like by season wrap.
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Hughmoris posted:Disclaimer: I've never seen the original Spike seems pretty old and world-weary in the series; I think it fits the character better than whatever anime age he’s supposed to be. E: 27 lol theflyingexecutive fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Oct 20, 2021 |
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:In the 80s/90s (and itt, I guess), anyone over the age of 29 is basically dead already... Anime is full of 13yo protagonists saving the world, 20 is aarp eligible.
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