Hollywood directors and filmmakers argue that actors’ movie trailers are ruining the film industry.
Did you know that Will Smith owns a $2.5 million, two-story movie trailer? According to a business Insider report, the actor has a one-of-a-kind, two -story trailer nicknamed “The Heat.”
The 1,200-square-foot trailer is basically a mobile home sitting on 22 wheels, features 14 TV screens, has $30,000 worth of leather, and $100,000 – $125,000 worth of technology. While, every actor has their own trailer on set. Very few compare to Will Smith’s personal movie trailer.
Typically, the trailer is the only area that allows for actors to relax and prepare between scenes but, several popular directors are now complaining about actor’s and their personal trailers.
Wes Anderson has had a long history in the filmmaking business. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Royal Tenenbaums in 2001, Moonrise Kingdom in 2012 and The Grand Budapest Hotel in 2014, as well as the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature forFantastic Mr. Fox in 2009. He received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Director and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for The Grand Budapest Hotel in 2014.
According to Page Six, independent filmmaker Wes Anderson answered questions with friend Noah Baumbach after a Directors Guild of America screening of Baumbach’s latest, “Mistress America,” this week in Midtown.
The two indie film directors agreed that they both dislike actors having trailers on sets. Calling the practice “inefficient,” they argued that it “takes too long for each actor to see if the others are ready” to emerge for a scene, a spy said.
Wes Anderson’s latest film, The Grand Budapest Hotel , featured Ralph Fiennes, Jude Law, F. Murray Abraham, and Saoirse Ronan, including Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, and Jason Schwartzman.
The Grand Budapest Hotel is set in the 1930s, and followed the adventures of M. Gustave, the hotel’s concierge, making “a marvelous mockery of history, turning its horrors into a series of graceful jokes and mischievous gestures”, according to The New York Times.
The film represented one of Anderson’s greatest critical and commercial successes, grossing nearly $175 million worldwide and earning dozens of award nominations including nine Oscar nominations with four wins.
