Even in the final stretch of filming in Columbia, “Nailed” can’t catch a break.
Filming was supposed to finish this weekend on the comedy starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Biel, but shoot was shut down for a fourth time.
The International Alliance of Theatrical & Stage Employees ordered members to avoid the set on Friday because movie crews had not been paid — again, Variety and L.A. Weekly reported.
Filming was expected to start again today, a source told Variety. The S.C. Film Commission said it did not know if shooting had resumed. Attempts to reach the production company of “Nailed” was unsuccessful today.
The independent movie’s backer, Capitol Films, received financing this month to get filming restarted after the last stoppage by crew members that began on May 22 and lasted nearly two weeks.
The financing was supposed to be enough to get through the shooting and pay union penalties, sources told The Hollywood Reporter this month.
Still, the sources said at the time they don’t know if there’s enough money to last through post-production. “One more shutdown will kill the movie,” a film executive told by The Hollywood Reporter this month.
The shoot around Columbia, which started in mid-April, was supposed to end Sunday.
Work on the movie was stopped three times during two weeks in May — twice by the union representing movie crews after members were not paid and once by the actors union because not enough money was put into accounts used to pay its members.
“Nailed” is a political satire co-written by Kristin Gore, the former vice president’s daughter, and the film’s director David O. Russell.
Biel plays an uninsured receptionist who becomes sex-crazed after a maintenance worker accidentally shoots a nail into her head. She goes to Washington to fight for the rights of “bizarrely injured” people where she meets a congressman, played by Gyllenhaal, who takes advantage of her sex drive.
Columbia was chosen for filming, in part, because the State House could double for the U.S. Capitol.
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