{"id":34215,"date":"2013-02-22T22:44:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T05:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=34215"},"modified":"2013-02-22T22:44:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T05:44:31","slug":"hollywood-reporter-vfx-community-planning-protest-during-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/02\/22\/hollywood-reporter-vfx-community-planning-protest-during-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Reporter: VFX Community Planning Protest During Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The visual-effects community is planning a demonstration during Sunday&#8217;s Academy Awards to force the film industry to focus on the economic problems threatening Hollywood&#8217;s visual-effects houses. <\/p>\n<p>Many in that VFX world argue that effects houses are struggling because of a business model that doesn&#8217;t work, and they point to Rhythm &#038; Hues Studios &#8212; the VFX house behind the CG tiger in Oscar-nominated Life of Pi &#8212; and the fact that it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Feb. 13 as the latest evidence.<\/p>\n<p>A small plane with a banner that reads &#8220;Box Office + Bankrupt = Visual Effects vfxunion.com&#8221; will fly over the red carpet on Sunday, according to the demonstration&#8217;s organizers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/vfx-community-planning-protest-oscars-423610\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for the full story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The visual-effects community is planning a demonstration during Sunday&#8217;s Academy Awards to force the film industry to focus on the economic problems threatening Hollywood&#8217;s visual-effects houses. Many in that VFX world argue that effects houses are struggling because of a business model that doesn&#8217;t work, and they point to Rhythm &#038; Hues Studios &#8212; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34216,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34215\/revisions\/34216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}