EXCLUSIVE: While there isn’t any WGA picketing going on over here on the Croisette before the black-tie clad motion picture industry, the guild is sending shockwaves by staying home: Good Fortune, the Aziz Ansari feature directorial debut which is being sold by Lionsgate here at Cannes, saw its physical production paused last night by WGA protestors.
We’re told that the production only shuttered for one day. The movie which stars Seth Rogen and Keanu Reeves is shooting on location in LA’s Koreatown.
Picketers arrived to a restaurant location yesterday where the pic was shooting at 9AM. IATSE and teamsters arrived to pre-grip the location at around 11 30AM, however, refused to cross the picket line.
Ansari’s call time, we hear, was at 5pm which is the time producers were hoping picketers would leave. But they did not. Picketers did not observe Ansari arriving to set.
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