The production team working on #Constellation TV series for #appletvplus has not paid 1 million € worth of local services employed (catering, fuel, equipment rental, local actor wages) in Ivalo and Inari regions in Finnish #Lapland.
These local companies are rather small and definitely don’t have the muscle to fight large corporations. The bills have been unpaid for over 6 months now and threaten the continuity of these small businesses.
The people in the area were elated when the production decided to film there, and we really excited to help with the largest production ever. In the media the production team has been praising the support and the arrangements. The people who actually made it all happen have not been paid.
It is unclear how this could happen. The production company Turbine Studios seems to blame the local partner Film Service Finland for overrunning the budget. FSF on the other hand claims that they have not been paid fully by Turbine Studios. As a result FSF is in serious financial difficulties. In the end the subcontractors are likely to never see their money and many of them will go out of business. The impact this will have for future of film and TV productions in Finland is unknown, but it’s unlikely to be positive one.
Here's a new one of the Ring Nebula -- a planetary nebula (what is expected to happen to the Sun at the end of its life) located the #constellation Lyra!
Happy birthday to American #astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921) who set the scale of our Universe. In her day, women scientists were regularly hired to do menial chores like counting images on photographic plates as a "computer". In studying these plates, in 1908 she was able to deduce a ground-breaking theory, which allowed Hubble's later insight about the age and expansion of the universe.
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This is a composite image of the classical nova remnant GK Persei located 1,530 LY away in the #constellation Perseus (which we'll be covering in the upcoming season 2 of our podcast).