Variety – “Indie producers can still make movies like “Obsession” cheaply in the U.S. by shooting nonunion.”
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Variety – “Indie producers can still make movies like “Obsession” cheaply in the U.S. by shooting nonunion.”
Posted by nyclover11
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Classic anti-union bullshit article from Variety.
The industry continues to learn the wrong lessons from success.
Interestingly, Obsession will serve as a perfect example of why unions are necessary in this business.
The people who actually made the movie got paid next to nothing for it, and they’ll never see another penny. The movie will earn hundreds of millions of dollars and *virtually all* of that money will land in the pockets of non-creatives in suits.
Get fucked.
We continue to move backwards in this country
As always, fuck Variety
One week of a union shoot is more than this films entire budget.
If not a single day pending shooting location.
Obsession is closing in on a 300 million dollar box office. Even if using union staff would have doubled the cost (It wouldn’t. Not even close) then the movie would have made a 298.5 million dollar profit instead of a 299.25 million dollar profit. Literally a rounding error. And everyone who worked on it would get fairer pay. Oh, and the creatives would be entitled to scaling bonuses based on revenue. Which would eat into executive bonuses for the guys who had one meeting where they said, “Yeah, you can have some of our pocket change to make your little creative vision or whatever, I guess.” And then their contribution ended.
UGH. I don’t begruge any film its success… but to think that the secret to success in film is a low budget and non-union workers is dumb. There is tons of $1 Million and under Indie films that are absolute trash and don’t make any money. There are other horror films with union cast and crew (Sinners) that are also great successes.
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The people profiting off this movie are not the below the line people who worked on it.
They should be rewarded with bonuses.
Weird take
God I can’t STAND Variety
Yuck
This is classic variety: always shilling for the studios…never on the side of the artist
I mean, does non union just mean “paying the workers less” in this case? It very often does, but it doesnt *always* (I have worked in union and non union roles). They could just fucking say that instead then. Its fucking ridiculous to make an article that amounts to “paying workers reduces costs” like is this satire lmao?
Unfortunately this is the popular opinion even amongst people who work in the industry – mostly men, who mostly believe they will one day end up becoming the next Curry Barker when in reality, they will remain the exploited gaffer or second AD or assistant script supervisor.
Other than Obsession being lauded as a feminist masterpiece when in reality it’s a film that barely manages to interrogate its rapist protagonist for his abhorrent actions – Sally Choi’s account of her time working on set, and Barker’s attitude about it (that recent interview spoke volumes) are reasons I will never see this movie, and I will never support any project he’s attached to. Disgusting.
Can I punch an article?