Friday, June 1, 2012

Musicians Union Pickets Marvel Over Runaway ‘Avengers’ Score

Blasting Marvel Studios as “unfair” for scoring megahit The Avengers non-union in Europe, members and leaders of the American Federation of Musicians, including president Ray Hair, picketed the Disney subsidiary’s Manhattan Beach facility Friday morning, handing out leaflets that ask “how many billions must your companies earn before Marvel will score its film music here at home?”
 
Details: The Hollywood Reporter.



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