While Filming Starts Around The World California Sits Idly By – When Will Hollywood Open?

Will Hollywood ever open up, or will production companies have to flee the state’s strict rules and governor in order to get the cameras rolling?

In an industry used to calling out, “Action” before every scene the frustration mounts in California as Governor Gavin Newsom mandates inaction for film sets.

Why is California Governor Gavin Newsom refusing to reopen one of the state’s biggest economic moneymakers?

California’s shut down of production sets remains a hot button topic as other states and countries have already begun getting back to work.

South Korea, Australia, Sweden, and New Zealand have gotten back to filming while the Movie Capitol of the World remains idle as if on a long staycation, content to lap up the sun and watch the economy tank.

Why? As the Australian soap Neighbours proves, it’s a challenge but not impossible to get back to work with smaller crews, social distancing, regular testing, and gobs of hand sanitizer.

As the world gets busy California sits on its Idly By

Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom dawdles, seemingly content to let his state self-implode from the weight of out of work actors, producers, hairstylists, makeup artists, set designers, etc.

What is he actually doing? He reportedly is “talking” to people in the labor and industry sectors and maybe, just maybe, will release protocols for production shoots this week. Don’t count on it.

The unions are mimicking Newsom’s seeming lack of interest in getting starving actors (who must be emaciated by now) back to work. It is said that actors and set employees unions including SAG-AFTRA, IATSE, and the Directors Guild of America, are reportedly in communication with “experts” from Harvard and the University of California to help them create safe guidelines for returning to work.

Why is California Governor Gavin Newsom letting business flee California?

Maybe they should talk to uber-successful and obviously industrious writer-director Tyler Perry instead.

There’s a reason he can buy up mansions and let people like Prince Harry and Meghan Markle squat in them—his brains and work ethic.

Tyler isn’t waiting for the apathetic person some call Gruesome Newsom to tell him when he can do what he does best. Tyler plans to begin shooting two BET television series at his studio complex in Atlanta as early as July 8.

And he’s doing it within safety precaution guidelines, the kind that California apparently is waiting for an expert to fill them in on.

Perry is using a “village of staff, medical doctors, epidemiologists, lawyers, union reps, talent and their reps, crew members, insurers, and a lot of other great thinkers,” to develop safeguards.

One expert is Carlos del Rio, an infectious diseases expert at Emory University, who told Perry the cast and crew need to be tested at the start and at least once during the two weeks they remain sequestered for a shoot, as well as made recommendations on hygiene and other protections, though he noted nothing offers a 100% guarantee.

According to del Rio, “I think it’s also not feasible to say we’re going to wait until the virus goes away, or we have a vaccine, because then we might as well not work for the next two years.” Except that Gruesome Newsom and the unions seem to want it that way.

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