{"id":71,"date":"2010-10-08T13:32:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T13:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.culverland.com\/news\/?p=71"},"modified":"2010-10-08T13:32:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T13:32:40","slug":"first-heat-then-rain-now-zohan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blank1.com\/news\/2010\/10\/08\/first-heat-then-rain-now-zohan\/","title":{"rendered":"First heat, then rain, now Zohan"},"content":{"rendered":"

A week of record-setting heat and another week of record-setting rain were simply not enough afflictions for our Job-like struggle to install “CulverLand.” \u00a0The game still had to contend with one more disaster before it’s opening.<\/p>\n

An Adam Sandler movie.<\/p>\n

Yes, that’s right. \u00a0We woke up Thursday morning to find Mr. Happy Madison himself was making a movie in Culver City. \u00a0Which is great. \u00a0But did he have to do it on the same EXACT day, and the same EXACT spot, where we were trying to finish “CulverLand?<\/p>\n

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Dozens of film crew trucks park by (and occasionally drive over) CulverLand<\/p><\/div>\n

We arrived at the game site on Thursday to do our final touch-ups on the artwork before the beginning of IndieCade. \u00a0We found a small army of film production trucks suddenly parking by and driving over our game. \u00a0There’s pretty much nothing that will tear up the temporary paint of “CulverLand” more efficiently than the tires of a 10-ton grip truck. \u00a0There were at least a dozen or more of these trucks there, as well as larger vehicles.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, the crew was mostly cooperative once we explained what was going on. \u00a0And they seemed to make an effort at avoiding any unintended demolition. \u00a0And we only had to paint over about half a dozen deep tire marks. \u00a0It just made everything THAT more difficult.<\/p>\n

Yes, “Culver City” is the home to several movies studios and is nicknamed “The Heart of Screenland.” So it’s not unexpected to have a few film crews around town. \u00a0But did they really have to set up all their gear on this day, and at this time, right next to and on top of our repeatedly abused artwork and game?<\/p>\n

The sudden appearance of this major production did not make things any easier for all the IndieCade folks trying to set up for this weekend’s festival in the nearby lot. \u00a0On the plus side, the art decorators went to town on the Culver Hotel. \u00a0Those are fake flowers in the bushes, by the way. \u00a0Those bushes don’t grow flowers.<\/p>\n

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Set decorators dress up the "Culver Hotel" for the upcoming Adam Sandler movie "Jack and Jill"<\/p><\/div>\n

The new movie is apparently called “Jack and Jill,” in which Adam Sandler plays both a man AND a woman, according to one of the film crew members. \u00a0We didn’t stick around to see which version of him \u00a0(“Jack” or “Jill”) was actually in these scenes at the Culver Hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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