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The day I never thought I'd see:
On AICN, the headline is, "Battle In Seattle Trailer Now Online!" And the trailer itself has a *gasp* INSIGHT logo on it!
How could this be? Insight in theatres?! Kirk Shaw a legitimate producer?! Anybody giving a flying fuck about Battle In Seattle?!
This completely shatters all illusions I might still pretend to have about the film industry. Bad enough Juno was accidentally good (we don't make good films in Vancouver; it's against union rules). Bad enough I actually worked on the new Day The Earth Stood Still, and AICN posted a (bad) review of the script yesterday, falsely claiming the film was being shot here (we wrapped a while ago). But now that horrible film I worked on a year and a half ago, for Insight (basically a grindhouse production facility), is getting a legitimate release.
You know, I've been to Seattle. It doesn't actually look very much like Vancouver. I don't see why they keep filming "Seattle" productions here. Last week, I worked on a pilot for Jerry Bruckheimer, Eleventh Hour (starring Rufus Sewell and Marley Shelton), and they shot the Seattle PD scenes at Main and Hastings.
Vancouver passes for New York in some shows. We shoot anything and everything here. Yet, film companies seem to think that if it's shot in Vancouver, it should take place in Seattle.
And they also insist on always making it look like it's just rained. Because the streets of Vancouver and Seattle are *never* dry, and they have to hire water trucks to prove it.
On AICN, the headline is, "Battle In Seattle Trailer Now Online!" And the trailer itself has a *gasp* INSIGHT logo on it!
How could this be? Insight in theatres?! Kirk Shaw a legitimate producer?! Anybody giving a flying fuck about Battle In Seattle?!
This completely shatters all illusions I might still pretend to have about the film industry. Bad enough Juno was accidentally good (we don't make good films in Vancouver; it's against union rules). Bad enough I actually worked on the new Day The Earth Stood Still, and AICN posted a (bad) review of the script yesterday, falsely claiming the film was being shot here (we wrapped a while ago). But now that horrible film I worked on a year and a half ago, for Insight (basically a grindhouse production facility), is getting a legitimate release.
You know, I've been to Seattle. It doesn't actually look very much like Vancouver. I don't see why they keep filming "Seattle" productions here. Last week, I worked on a pilot for Jerry Bruckheimer, Eleventh Hour (starring Rufus Sewell and Marley Shelton), and they shot the Seattle PD scenes at Main and Hastings.
Vancouver passes for New York in some shows. We shoot anything and everything here. Yet, film companies seem to think that if it's shot in Vancouver, it should take place in Seattle.
And they also insist on always making it look like it's just rained. Because the streets of Vancouver and Seattle are *never* dry, and they have to hire water trucks to prove it.