I recently rented a pair of dewat 50 cals, cradles and two ammo boxes of dummy rounds to a movie for $800 for one days shooting. My friend, who is in the business, rented them his M939 as a background vehicle to block out the background. That earned him $1K for the day. But in the same breath, he rented them a gutted HMMWV that they could roll over, and they sliced the tarp on him. They paid for the tarp, but didn't ask to do it.
So a mixed bag. Netflix has said it will spend $400 million in Canada on productions for the next while....kind of nice to get a piece of the pie while not subjecting our cherished posessions to undue abuse.
There was a low budget CBC film being done in Manitoba quite some time back. They wanted to rent a friends M135 deuce. He would have to bring it to the far southwest corner of Manitoba, likely take a while day off work, all for the princely sum of $250. He declined.
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