Rippintare -- Around here, picture cars used as background (not "hero cars" -- the vehicles shown being driven by the actors in scenes) get $300/day. We've never been a hero car so I don't know what that pays. I think it depends on how the vehicle is used. I just thought it was weird that the background vehicles get the same amount, no matter what it is (i.e., no sliding scale for the cost of getting the rig on set). For example, in our movie (Flags of Our Fathers -- Iwo Jima Monument dedication scenes), the big '54 GMC transit bus that figures prominently in the scene (and sucked a lot of gas coming down from Baltimore that morning) got paid the same $300 we got and our truck barely is visible in one scene for about 10 seconds. Still -- $300 for 10 seconds of screen time... No wonder movies are so expensive to make.
Glenn is right -- it *IS* horribly boring. And the show time is usually the butt crack of dawn. The glamour of being on a movie set lasts about 15 minutes. The crew catering was fantastic on our set, though.
And I have a crew badge that's a great souvenir.
I think it's pretty cool that we have so many Bolters who have been in movies. Last winter, Jarge up in Winnipeg had his 2-ton '46 used in a production, too. Maybe it would be cool to compile a list of Bolters who are in movies (what the movie/TV show or commercial is and what truck was used).
Regards,
John
