Hollywood’s Covid-19 protocols, which added hundreds of millions of dollars to the cost of making movies and TV shows over the course of the pandemic, officially end today, concurrent with the date…
, Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399, IBEW Local 40, Laborers Local 724, Plasterers and Cement Masons Local 755, and Plumbers Local 78. The WGA was the only guild not directly involved.
The Film Commission estimated that in 2021, feature films with budgets greater than $20 million that had qualified for the state’s tax incentives program would spend between 5% and 6.5% of their total budgets on Covid-related costs, while low-budget films and television series would spend about 4.25% of their total budgets on Covid-related costs.
Film and TV projects shot in New York, Georgia, New Mexico, Arizona, and elsewhere in the country were also subject to the industry’s return-to-work protocols, and their Covid-related costs could run to over a hundred million dollars as well.
The protocol’s vaccination mandates, which were added to the protocols in July 2021, were far and away the most controversial of the rules, giving producers “the option to implement mandatory vaccination policies for casts and crew in Zone A on a production-by-production basis.” Zone A, where unmasked actors work, was the most restrictive of the safe work zones on sets.
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