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11-02-2007 06:39 PM |
There is no life outside of the TMZ*:winkwink:
*Studio zone (also thirty-mile zone OR TMZ) is a term used in the American entertainment industry to describe the area within a thirty-mile (50 km) radius from the intersection of Beverly Boulevard and La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. In addition, the studio zone includes the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Conejo Ranch property, although it technically lies outside of the zone's radius.
Entertainment industry unions use this area to determine rates and work rules for union workers in the entertainment industry. For instance, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes contracts state:
"Studio rates and working conditions shall prevail for all work performed within the studio zone; however, for newly-called employees and those employees notified on the previous day prior to their departure from the studio (or the zone location) to report at the zone location, work time shall begin and end at the zone location; otherwise, work time shall begin and end at the studio. Such work time includes travel time both ways between the studio and the zone location." [1]
"Studio rates" are generally lower than "distant location rates," which would need to be paid (in addition to travel time and mileage) for work outside the studio zone.
Because it is much more expensive to film outside of the studio zone, television producers prefer to film within the zone (and go to great lengths to select and dress sets appropriately) even when a show's claimed setting is just outside the zone. A famous example of this phenomenon was The OC, which was primarily filmed in the Los Angeles County Beach Cities within the zone rather than in the real Orange County, which literally sits on the zone's border.
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