Rip-Off Films May Leave - Boo Effing Hoo
Kirk Shaw is full of it.
And Yvonne Zacharias tells only half the story.
Mr. Shaw, the President of the hysterically Over-Named Insight Films, has threatened to close down his movie making Maple Ridge shop and move it to Hungary or somewhere if the IATSE union keeps trying to sign up members who work on his dreadful movies.
Bye, Kirk.
Ms. Zacharias has written a wonderfully slanted piece in today's paper.
What she has forgotten to tell the uninformed reader is that a) Mr. Shaw's movies are unwatchable (I've been in several lately and tried to watch...yikes! Kill the DVD and go back to Deal or No Deal), and b) that he has been making a personal fortune for years by getting away with paying starving and desperate actors minus 25% of scale wages to drive out to badly made sets and freezing trailers in Maple Ridge at 6 in the morning, and c) even his casting people are incompetent amateurs. (Last week, a girl hired to read with me in an audition started in the middle of the scene. Last month, the camera operator started fixing her pony tale in the middle of a scene.)
The movie business is all smoke and mirrors. That a reporter for a major newspaper would not see through the obvious bull is a crying shame and an indicator of somethingorother.
Kirk, baby...have a nice trip and watch out for the potatoes and cole slaw...they'll mess with your digestion.
1 comment:
As a location scout in the film biz, I have gone to places that had an Insight show film there and all they could say were extremely bad things. And I've had to spend time putting out these fires on behalf of the film industry so we don't lose the location.
He is cheap and he has a history of burning locations and not paying his bills.
Even though he has brought in a lot of low budget shows in the last couple of years, I really wouldn't mind if he went to Hungary or where ever. Good luck finding good Directors and Actors that will go there, let alone finding an experienced crew.
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