Vanity Fair: Global Warming hitting Film Industry Hard – ‘How Extreme Weather Is Melting Hollywood’s Winter Shoots’
Hateful Eight producer Harvey Weinstein further confirmed rumors about the film’s fraught weather conditions, saying, “Anyone who doesn’t believe in climate control or climate change should be on our set.”
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Film productions starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Channing Tatum, Jennifer Lawrence, and Jake Gyllenhaal were recently besieged by unpredictable and expensive weather obstacles.
Eric Holthaus, a meteorologist who works for Slate, says climate change may affect Hollywood in several ways: The frequency of extreme weather makes it harder to predict which areas of the world may have snow, rain, or sunny days during any given month. And Hollywood may not be able to rely on “locations that are nearby and cheap to film, where it has filmed for decades,” as its home state grows drier. Ironically, this means productions may have to resort to the biggest environmental sin of them all—wanton air travel—to find better locations.
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