COLD MOUNTAIN SHOT IN ROMANIA -- BOYCOTT IT! By John Hays, from the Film & Television Action Committee.         Cold Mountain, the Civil War movie which KCRW has been heavily promoting of late, is the latest in a too-long line of "runaway productions" (movies, TV series and commercials shot outside their country of origin -- specifically, the U.S.).  The financiers and other above-the-line interests who are responsible for Cold Mountain chose to make this could-not-be- more-American-themed movie in ROMANIA, merely because they were too selfish and short-sighted to reconsider the hypocritical greed they were expressing, undermining their artistic expression.  By shooting in a very low-wage country, exploiting the local workforce, they displaced the myriad U.S. film craftspersons who could have and should have worked on this project.  As a film industry worker, I will be amongst those boycotting this movie.     Far too many U.S.-located and -generated productions have left the U.S., bribed away by various governments' "incentives" (tax breaks, low wages, lax worker and environmental laws, etc.).  Hollywood is far too rich to justify such taxpayer-supported subsidies, from any nation.  Canada has been the main culprit in this scam (Elf, Honey, Chicago, Paycheck, the Scooby Doo sequel, both X-Men movies, Titanic, The Score, Undercover Brother, Along Came a Spider, Shanghai Noon, Texas Rangers, Mission to Mars, Josie & the Pussycats, Snake Eyes, Reindeer Games, Get Carter, Driven, Affliction, Antitrust, Waking the Dead, Mother Night, Dick, Detroit Rock City, Lake Placid, Snow Falling on Cedars, Final Destination, most TV movies and many TV series were partly or completely shot there).  Meanwhile, Australia, New Zealand, the Czech Republic, Romania and others are catching up.     If you wish to have my support, and that of my friends, family, and colleagues in the film/TV industry, you will stop promoting Cold Mountain and instead expose it for the sham it really is.     Get Warren Olney on it!  Sincerely, John Hays --------------- Tell Us What YOU Think! -- On Our Message Board! RETURN to The Hollywood Investigator! "Hollywood Investigator" and "HollywoodInvestigator.com" trademarks are currently unregistered, but pending registration upon need for protection against improper use.  The idea of marketing these terms as a commodity is a protected idea under the Lanham Act. 15 U.S.C. s 1114(1) (1994) (defining a trademark infringement claim when the plaintiff has a registered mark); 15 U.S.C. s 1125(a) (1994) (defining an action for unfair competition in the context of trademark infringement when the plaintiff holds an unregistered mark).