Studios, stages and the people who keep them running.
More than a year after the strikes ended, the grips, gaffers and drivers who keep productions running say the work has not come back the way they expected, and some are looking at other states.
Digital shooting nearly ended photochemical processing a decade ago. A small Hollywood lab survives on the directors who still want film, and this year even that thin stream has run thinner.
At a trade gathering in Hollywood, studio executives dismissed the little screen as a passing fad and, a sentence later, confessed they were frightened of what it was doing to the box office.
