While Southern California’s entertainment community continues to adjust to the latest shifts in the always-evolving production landscape, one constant bedrock has been Disney Studiosin Burbank. There, Local 40 crews are at full capacity managing a slate of planned and in-progress projects ahead. “We just finished Team Disney. We had a full street shut down on…
Matt Gruber helped restore power to two Palisades fire stations in the thick of disaster Two days after the Los Angeles area erupted in flames and fires still raged across the region, including the Pacific Palisades, IBEW Local 40 member Matt Gruber got a call. It was from his friend and colleague James Adcock, who…
What’s commonly referred to as the Lower Lot at Universal Studios is where the magic happens. The Upper Lot has fun rides and thrilling shows, a glitzy attraction for tourists and locals alike, but it’s the production work on the Lower Lot where programming is created to fill screens, big and small. The Universal campus…