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Movies loomed large for Jan Pascale. As a child she took over her parents’ basement where she created a world of make belief by building little sets to go along with her stories, so in a way her storied career started very early. She just didn’t know it at the time. If you watched “Dracula: Dead and Loving It”, ‘The Flinstones in Viva Rock Vegas”, “Boston Public”, “Training Day...
We caught up with the Construction Department at Crimson Studios in Chatsworth and Construction Coordinator Randy Childs who walked us through the sets. We bumped into General Forman Dan Colegrove and the Propmaker crew along the way. Childs estimated that he and his crew built over fifty sets for the season including all the miscellaneous sets. His favorite was at Blue Cloud Ranch – “We had the...
January 22, 2021The County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health has recently updated the Protocol for Music, Television and film Production: Appendix J.Click here to view the January 22, 2021 updated version.
December 23, 2020COVID‐19 (Coronavirus) news is changing rapidly, almost hour by hour. The purpose of this email is to inform you of the steps MPI has taken to help Participants and dependents deal with this current health crisis. Feel free to share the following with your members.No‐Cost COBRA for a Certain Benefit PeriodOver the past few months, Participants who meet certain conditions have...
December 23, 2020COVID‐19 (Coronavirus) news is changing rapidly, almost hour by hour. The purpose of this email is to inform you of the steps MPI has taken to help Participants and dependents deal with this current health crisis. Feel free to share the following with your members.No‐Cost COBRA for a Certain Benefit PeriodOver the past few months, Participants who meet certain conditions have...
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Dear Local 44 Sisters and Brothers,After months of difficult and complicated negotiations, the Joint Unions (IATSE, DGA, Teamsters), and the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP), have announced the finalization of the highly anticipated COVID-19 Commercial Production Safety and Testing Protocol Agreement. We have combined both the summary as well as the full contractual language...