The shutdown of production was devastating to Los Angeles’ music community, just as it has been for every aspect of TV- and movie-making. But creative thinking is putting some studio musicians back to work.
John Acosta, president of Local 47 of the American Federation of Musicians, projects that lost wages due to the cancellation of live performances and studio recording dates could range from $2 million to $4 million, “just for the month of March.” Scuttled scoring dates amounted to half of that total, with last-minute cancellations of music for Fox’s “Family Guy,” Netflix’s “Umbrella Academy” and Peacock’s upcoming “Brave New World,” among others, prompting the Warner Bros., Sony and Fox scoring stages to close their doors within days of the city’s mandate that all nonessential businesses do so.
“Everything ground to a total standstill,” says composer Fil Eisler, who was gearing up to score the four remaining...
John Acosta, president of Local 47 of the American Federation of Musicians, projects that lost wages due to the cancellation of live performances and studio recording dates could range from $2 million to $4 million, “just for the month of March.” Scuttled scoring dates amounted to half of that total, with last-minute cancellations of music for Fox’s “Family Guy,” Netflix’s “Umbrella Academy” and Peacock’s upcoming “Brave New World,” among others, prompting the Warner Bros., Sony and Fox scoring stages to close their doors within days of the city’s mandate that all nonessential businesses do so.
“Everything ground to a total standstill,” says composer Fil Eisler, who was gearing up to score the four remaining...
- 4/2/2020
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
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