Casting agents want residuals
ov...@aol.com
join the Teamsters Union and get residuals on TV shows.
The guy they interviewed was like, "The actors get residuals each time
the show airs, and so do the writers, but casting directors should get
residuals, too. Sure, the writer wrote the dialog, but we casting
directors helped make that character happen."
I don't buy it. I can see actors and writers getting residuals, but not
casting directors. Can you?
Lois
MC
"ov...@aol.com" <ov...@aol.com> wrote:
Do the Teamsters on film gigs get residuals? I mean the guys who drive
the trucks... if they don't I can't see the casting directors getting
them.
--
"You don't write because you want to say something,
you write because you've got something to say."
--F. Scott Fitzgerald
sl
asking for an executive producer credit just to get a script in front of
someone. Making a phone call call does not make a character happen, and
asking for residuals diminishes the efforts of those actually involved in
the production. Residuals? It's a big price to pay for someone to look up
a number on their PDA and make a call.
new...@virtual.com
Casting director.
Job function: Conceive/design a cast of characters to best support a
movie story at the behest of a producing team.
Pay by the job. Be done with it. One time thing. Next!
Just my .01 cent.
Doug
Just a virtual guy... in a virtual world
sl
new...@virtual.com wrote:
>
> Casting director.
>
> Job function: Conceive/design a cast of characters to best support a
> movie story at the behest of a producing team.
>
> Pay by the job. Be done with it. One time thing. Next!
Agreed, they should be done with it and move on. Granted, I don't hear of
everything, but I have yet to hear of a casting director who matches the
major roles with the primary actors (without some direction and guidance
from the Producer and Director). Casting directors work for secondary
roles, maybe - extras, all the time. Their "design" of a cast of characters
goes as far as who they know, and how they can call them. There are always
exceptions to the rule, and those exceptions are well paid.
Casting directors create every day, and then flush it.
ov...@aol.com
writer wrote the dialog." How about: the writer wrote the dialog,
created the characters, came up with the plot, etc., etc., etc.? The
writer has 10^3x more to do with the success of the show than the
casting director!
Lois
Ron
"ov...@aol.com" <ov...@aol.com> wrote:
And the writer gets residuals.
The question, from the CD's point of view, is who else gets residuals.
I mean, many casting directors get their names in the front credits. How
many other people with their names in the front credits don't get
residuals?
Jacques E. Bouchard
@reader1.panix.com:
The CD has nothing to do with the performance of the actors cast.
Director, writer, composer, etc. those are all people whose
performance/work you see *directly* every time the movie is shown.
jaybee
monkeyhawk
I think the caterers deserve residuals.
What if Bogart's tummy grumbled in the middle of his "Of all the gin
joints..." speech? But, thanks to a well-placed cupcake on the craft
service table, the line is immportal!
Do you have any idea what the presense of garlic butter on the set might
have done to "Last Tango in Paris?"
Joe Myers
"May contain nuts."
Jacques E. Bouchard
@reader1.panix.com:
> Why stop with CDs?
>
> I think the caterers deserve residuals.
I was thinking exactly the same thing.
And don't forget the girl in the ticket booth at the theater.
jaybee
RonB
> The CD has nothing to do with the performance of the actors cast.
But he/she can be instrumental in getting the right actors for the parts
-- which can make or break a movie. I'm not saying this warrants
residuals (or doesn't) -- I don't know enough about how the business
works -- but I *do* think there is more to being a Casting Director than
taking out the garbage.
--
RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"
MC
"monkeyhawk" <monke...@cox.net> wrote:
> Do you have any idea what the presense of garlic butter on the set might
> have done to "Last Tango in Paris?"
Somebody's breath would have smelled? The gerbil would have edied?
I give up.
What would it have done?
Carl Dershem
@reader1.panix.com:
I dated her - and she *did* have residuals. Or at least I think that's
what the doctor called them. :/
cd
--
The difference between immorality and immortality is "T". I like Earl
Grey.
Jacques E. Bouchard
To casting agents, the "right" actor for the role is whoever they have
available that sells right now.
jaybee
nmstevens
I'm pretty sure that nobody in the camera department -- Director of
Photography on down, gets residuals. Ditto with the editorial staff --
and I think that, at least, the D.P. and the Editor get front credits.
Line producers neither get residuals nor have profit participation --
it is strictly a paid job.
NMS
Jacques E. Bouchard
> Listened to a show on NPR yesterday about how casting directors want to
> join the Teamsters Union and get residuals on TV shows.
Lois, I tried finding that broadcast on NPR's web site. Do you have more
information about it?
jaybee
Ron
"nmstevens" <nmst...@msn.com> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure that nobody in the camera department -- Director of
> Photography on down, gets residuals. Ditto with the editorial staff --
> and I think that, at least, the D.P. and the Editor get front credits.
Okay.
In that case, allow me to laugh at casting directors asking for
residuals.
Ha ha ha. :)
-Ron
ov...@aol.com
If it wasn't on NPR, try Pulic Radio International.
Lois
ov...@aol.com
If it wasn't on NPR, try Pulic Radio International.
Lois
ov...@aol.com
> >> Lois, I tried finding that broadcast on NPR's web site. Do you have
> >> more information about it?
> >
> > If it wasn't on NPR, try Pulic Radio International.
>
> I didn't find it because I don't have any information about it. Do you have
> a guest name, title, etc.?
A Google search of "teamsters+casting+residuals" got this:
http://www.wgaeast.org/mba/2004/articleindex/2004/05/16/variety/
That should get you started.
Lois
sl
RonB wrote:
The casting director should not be confused with the actor's agent. In my
opinion the CD do little more than say to themselves "Whom might I be able
to contact that is right for this part?", and that is only after they have
what should be a lengthy conversation with the director or producer. Then
they go out and get the likes of Jar-Jar Binks.
As long as we're at it, the P.A. that does craft services should get
residuals too. They are largely responsible for the happiness of the entire
cast and crew. Have you ever seen Julia Roberts when her toast is not "just
right"? The whole project gets real ugly, real fast.