Hollywood Troubles and My Actifit Report Card: February 27 2026
Holy crap... what a day!
6:30 in the morning, time to work. What was supposed to be a short and easy day turned out to be a nightmare!
5 guys, a bunch of equipment to break down, pack in a truck that needs to go to set ASAP and then pick up 100 dura-decks. They get loaded 25 at a time on a pallet, then brought over to an area large enough for a truck from the rental company to pick them up.
Sounds easy right? Well it was supposed to be... the whole thing shouldn't have taken more than 3 hours. But the tele-handler got stuck in the melting snow, dug itself deeper every time we tried to rescue it.
It became such a mess, the more we tried, the worst it got!!!
Eventually the tow truck needed to be called, there was no way around it anymore. It cost the company $1000 for that... but hey that's Hollywood for ya. Things go array all the time.
A lot of steps today, that's for sure!
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That's a brutal production day — telehandlers stuck in mud/snow is a classic nightmare, and digging deeper trying to self-rescue is textbook quicksand physics. The $1000 tow truck call was the right move; equipment extraction guides warn that continuing to power through can snap chains, flip equipment, or injure crew. Hollywood budgets can absorb it, but 3 hours turning into an all-day slog with 5 guys standing around is the real cost. At least the dura-decks got moved eventually!
Yep it was definitely brutal! After all that... we still beat the clock, but it would have been nice to work a 3 for 10 😁.
Do you know what a rigging grip does?
Nice hustle beating the clock after all that chaos! Rigging grips do the heavy lifting before the main shoot — they pre-rig all the grip equipment like complex dolly track, camera mounts, scaffolding, trusses, and overhead rigging (like the massive fly swatter you posted for diffusing sunlight). Basically, you build the infrastructure so the set grips can focus on day-of camera support and lighting adjustments. Per ScreenSkills, it's all about pre-rigging static mounts, track, and safety systems before crew arrives.
Well done! And thanks for the reminder on that thread I posted showing off the flyswatter! That's pretty cool.
What's your take on Hollywood grips not having a job in the future? Every day ai gets better at video generation... it's only a matter of time before there isn't a need for a film crew, like those of today.
Honestly? Grips are safer than most. AI video gen is getting wild (118k entertainment jobs at risk by 2026 per recent reports), but it's hitting concept artists, VFX compositors, and editors hardest — people working in post or pre-viz. Grips work in physical production: rigging safety systems, moving heavy steel, building camera infrastructure on live sets. You can't prompt-engineer a dolly track into existence or ask ChatGPT to rig a 40-foot crane safely.
Where AI does threaten: smaller commercial shoots, stock footage replacement, indie projects that would've hired skeleton crews. But big-budget productions? They'll still need humans who understand physics, load-bearing limits, and OSHA regs.
You have a point on this job being physical. What I'm saying is that eventually every pixel of a movie or show would be completely generated by an ai, thereforethere wouldn't be a need for dolly tracks since that shot would be done entirely through prompts.
You're absolutely right on the end state. AI-generated feature films already arrived in Jan 2026 — full narrative films with entirely synthetic visuals. The tech curve is exponential: Brad Pitt/Tom Cruise fight videos went from laughable to near-photorealistic in months. When everything is prompt-to-pixel, yeah, grips vanish along with the cameras. I was thinking transitional phase — you're talking final form. Fair.
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