If you are currently working on a movie in Los Angeles, how did you find the time to read this post? According to an agency that tracks on-location filming, production in LA is up 11%. Every company is in a hurry to get their movies made before the potential actors’ strike in July, because stopping production would be a ‘very expensive proposition.’

The Screen Actors Guild has been very tightlipped about the outcome of the current negotiations. Some sources say it isn’t looking good and the studios want to move on, to talk to the AFTRA (TV and radio). In a way, daring the actors to strike.

You have to question if the boost is actually because of the potential strike. Or is it because the lack of production during the earlier writers’ strike?

The strike may be over, but the dust hasn’t settled yet. In a letter sent to its members, the WGA (West and East) presidents publicly noted the 28 writers who resigned during the strike earlier this year.

“Yet among the many there were a puny few who chose to do otherwise, who consciously and selfishly decided to place their own narrow interests over the greater good,” Verrone and Winship wrote.

After the harsh words they, of course, went on praising the other members for their dedication and support.

The letter comes two weeks after the news about the WGA’s feud with George Clooney, who didn’t get credited for writing ‘Leatherheads’.

If you care for the names of the 28 Judases, you can click the link below.

While the US had a good presence at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, this year is turning out quite the opposite. Plagued by the writers’ strike, the only major Hollywood product in the competition seems to be Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut ‘Synecdoche, New York’.

Spielberg and his gang will be there to promote the new Indiana Jones and Jack Black will do some promotion for Kong Fu Panda. But both aren’t in the competition. And as mentioned earlier, the show’s closing film ‘What Just Happened?‘ isn’t expected to impress anyone either, although the word is it has been cut by 8 minutes now.