Local radio is saying it broke out on a sound stage, over 100 firefighters on the scene. The film vault is on fire.

wha?

Wile E. Coyote trying to take out the competition again.

SmackLT: Local radio is saying it broke out on a sound stage, over 100 firefighters on the scene. The film vault is on fire.

Hopefully this well mean less remakes. Let the son of a biatch burn! fark the history.

CheetahOlivetti: wins.

Try this:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en_US&ncl=http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ie Kl EB60J43hDZ39AB9VmsPZ72sgD911A12O0

Wow the film vault? That's cool and sad. Cool because well, it may mean a change in the film industry. It will be sad because it may mean some original tapes to the classic movies are gone.

SmackLT: The film vault is on fire.

Ooh. That's not good.

Linky thing (new window)


/not subby

saw it on the TV. excellent graphics. done way better than the New York hoax a few years ago.

Courtesy of the BBC: Fire raging at Universal Studios (new window), it has a video of scene.

This wasn't greenlight and was posted first.. This link works


CNN (new window)

Try here

Unconfirmed reports of filming in progress in the area on fire.

/Coulf be worse, Cyclone ride could have been in operation
//Still bad

http://www.tmz.com/2007/03/30/fire-threatens-universal-and-warner-bros-studios/

LEAD: Universal Studios received a bomb threat only 30 minutes before a fire leveled a block of movie sets and caused an estimated $2.5 million damage Friday night, the authorities said.

Universal Studios received a bomb threat only 30 minutes before a fire leveled a block of movie sets and caused an estimated $2.5 million damage Friday night, the authorities said.

The blaze forced the evacuation of the studio's European Street set, where about 200 people were watching the taping of a new television series. There were no injuries.

'We are trying to figure out whether there was or was not a bomb,' said Sgt. John Andrews of the Los Angeles County sheriff's department.

http://www.geocities.com/roo_two/StarlingWar.html

Link fixed

Holy cow!! I just read this, then looked out the window and noticed a huge plume of smoke. There's several copters out there, too.

/lives less than a mile from Universal
//figures I'd left my camera at work this weekend -_-

Failed for me and then I clicked again and it worked.

Hope the place doesn't go up in flames, would ruin a lot of kid's days.

The vault, the vault, the vault is on fire..

We dont give a damn, let the motherfarker burn!

(repeat as needed)

I just hope they can put out the film vault :(

Looks like one of those ACME bombs finally worked.

Crappiest special effect ever.


MSNBC just said one of the film vaults is on fire.
If that is true that sucks.

Here is a link to the story.
CNN Story

Narf

2nd try

CNN (new window)

That's a pretty serious looking fire. Film vault? I wonder if this is going to ruin any current productions?

I'm going to bid for the film rights

SmackLT: The film vault is on fire.

That's very bad news - but haven't they heard of off-site storage? And if they're storing celluloid you'd think they'd have an extremely good fire suppressant system.

nekom: That's a pretty serious looking fire. Film vault? I wonder if this is going to ruin any current productions?

Maybe Battlefield Earth will be perminantly lost.

I was all set to laugh at the headline until reading the bit about the film vault... no sir, that is not good, not good at all.

SharkUW: The film vault is on fire.

Don't worry, Pirate Bay has all of it as backup.

Supposedly this is a video of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm9qygHP92U

nekom: That's a pretty serious looking fire. Film vault? I wonder if this is going to ruin any current productions?

Mean they have an easy excuse for REMAKING EVERY MOVIE EVER MADE.

\remember 6-1-08

They'll fix it in post.

tripps: Wow the film vault? That's cool and sad. Cool because well, it may mean a change in the film industry. It will be sad because it may mean some original tapes to the classic movies are gone.

Don't be so naive. It'll mean a change in fire safety measures. If you think this is the end of the likes of "Dude, Where's My Car?" or "Indiana Jones and the Lame CG-Laden Movie for mo' Cash-Cash," then you are obviously delusional. Expect more garbage superhero movies and "National Treasure VIII" to help pay for the reconstruction.

The fire is farking huge! Watching it live on the news - jeebus.

if it is the film vault, it will only be recent movies or television shows ...

All the Classics are safe and sound far below the state of Kansas:

Going underground began decades ago. Film and television studios recognized that our uniquely cool and dry atmosphere, the distance from natural disaster and metropolitan exposure, and our location 58 floors below ground, were ideal for long term archiving of movie films. We eliminated high warehouse lease rates as well as reduced labor and utility costs. Our film vaults are void of anything that challenges asset protection at surface level, including seismic activity, fires, and intrusion.

Kansas salt mines (new window)

Rosebud!

Just sad to see something go up in flames. For a moment there, I thought it was an alien space ship reeking havoc onto Los Angeles, but that was a scenario from Sim City 2000. I wonder if Babs is alright?

Burn Hollywood, Burn.

Kyosuke: Mean they have an easy excuse for REMAKING EVERY MOVIE EVER MADE.

MY GOD, it's worse than I could have ever imagined. God help us all!

Ewww. Universal has rights to a LOT of stuff, and at least a decent portion of it is not in distribution nor has it been for quite some time. We could actually be looking at a serious permanent loss of certain works.

/Universal is dumb as hell if they don't have backups stored offsite.
//But they wouldn't be the first, last, or only corporation to do something stupid to save money.

hardinparamedic: nekom: That's a pretty serious looking fire. Film vault? I wonder if this is going to ruin any current productions?

Maybe Battlefield Earth will be perminantly lost.

No, they said film vault

vicejay: hardinparamedic: nekom: That's a pretty serious looking fire. Film vault? I wonder if this is going to ruin any current productions?

Maybe Battlefield Earth will be perminantly lost.

No, they said film vault

Oh, so it's not the Secret Government Warehouse

sarahsarah: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm9qygHP92U

Whoever made that video is chock full o'FAIL.

You'd think some of these idiots could take a film school class on camerawork. Maybe the fire is ironic. Only folks that look like they knew what they were doing is the BBC.

it seems to me like I remember a big fire back in the early 80's, mostly a brush fire on the lot, but they lost a lot of stuff back then too, one of them being the original Psycho house.

Didn't see anything about it on Wiki though.

/damn I'm feeling old

nekom: MY GOD, it's worse than I could have ever imagined. God help us all!

No worries. They're actually just shooting the burning of Atlanta for the remake of GWTW.

OMG! Backdraft!

On the case

Fortunately, everyone ran out of the building and hit the ground just as it exploded.