SAG rally at Fox Studios tomorrow

Scott Wilson talks about tomorrow’s SAG rally at Fox Studios.

Join Scott and members of the other unions as SAG members fight for residuals and your pension!

Sony screwing SAG actors

DHD has this report on how Sony is messing with day players by paying them something called 1/2 scale for a half days work.

Awesome!

Since SAG has zero (yes, ZERO) power, the studio is finding fun and irritating ways to screw with the union and its members. Of course, they would never do this to Tom Hanks or George Clooney.

Sony’s Columbia Pictures have sent some SAG actors on Day Player contracts only 1/2 scale payments for their work on Judd Apatow’s The Year One feature. Not only were the payments a month late. But “there is no such thing as 1/2 scale day rate,” one of my insiders says. “Theyre just playing games with actors’ paychecks. Perhaps to keep more money in the bank. Or to show that SAG has no leverage.”

Read it here. It’ll make you want to hit a wall.

This months cover of Vanity Fair

This picture makes me laugh. Vanity Fair has Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel and Jonah Hill on the cover of this months magazine. It’s a knock off of a previous cover with Scarlett Johansson, Keira Knightley and Tom Ford.

Send Your Stuff! Pilot "The Beautiful Life"

The Beautiful Life is a pilot for the CW. I’m not sure if it’s AFTRA or SAG.

The casting directors are Jeff Meshel and Robin Lippin. The associate is Lisa Ystrom.

Synopsis: Two aspiring midwestern models are new to NYC. Can they hold onto their sweetness and idealism, or will they be corrupted by their highpressure, hyper-competitive and exotic new world?

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David Lawrence does the residual math

David Lawrence is back with his take on how the studios are making little to no money on the web right now.

It’s a little long at 9 minutes but very interesting to watch. I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Jackie Earle Haley on acting inside a mask

I used to love Jackie Earle Haley when I was a kid. I loved him as Kelly Leak in the Bad News Bears series and agains Mooch in Breaking Away. He was  perfect in those roles.

It’s good to see him back. He was brilliantly creepy in Little Children and I have no doubt he’s going to be equally creepy as Rorschach in this Watchmen.

Here, he talks about the challenge of acting inside a mask for 90% of a movie.

Haley spends much of the film in Rorschach’s costume, which consists of a trench coat, a fedora and a white mask with shifting black blots that resemble the ink blots in the Rorschach test of classic psychology. Though visual effects make the blots shift, it fell to Haley to imbue Rorschach with an inner life.

“It’s an interesting challenge,” he said, “because you have to think about it from the inside, but also from the outside. You can’t help but wonder what’s reading and how it’s reading, where usually you don’t think about it because it’s happening here.”

Haley gestures toward his face, zeroing in on his eyes.

“If you do it internally,” he said, “it’ll just happen here. Sometimes you just have to look at the monitor to see how things are coming across, if I’m animating the costume correctly, if there’s something more I can do to get this point and this emotion across.

“We’ve left the eyes open, so we’re recording everything and they can see my eyebrows, my eyes and what’s going on to maybe help motivate the blots a tad. The blots are going to look like the blots, but it’d be neat if they could find a real subtle nuance for some sort of emotional connection to what’s going on.

Here is the full article

How I Met Your Mother & Knight Rider

MONDAY Kimberly Pfeffer How I Met Your Mother CBS March 2nd @ 8:30pm

WEDNESDAY Matt Reidy Knight Rider NBC March 4th @ 8pm

THURSDAY Carla Vila ER NBC March 5th @ 10pm

Clips from "I Love You, Man"

Here are two clips from the new Paul Rudd, Jason Segel film, I Love You, Man.

It’s restricted so you need to put in your name and age but the clip entitled Boat Race is well worth the hassle. From the looks of it, I’m going to love this movie.

Check out the clips here

And if you haven’t seen it, here is the clean version of the trailer after the jump.
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