The union representing Hollywood actors announced its plans to strike Thursday, joining TV and film writers, who have been striking since May. Here’s what we know about the historic industry-halting strike so far, from film critic Nina_Metz.
show ‘Industry’ operates under Equity rules and sources close to production say both shows are moving forward as planned.”quoting an unnamed source weighing in on the writers strike: “‘The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,’ a studio executive told Deadline. Acknowledging the cold-as-ice approach, several other sources reiterated the statement. One insider called it ‘a cruel but necessary evil.
Meanwhile, a number of the AMPTP’s media moguls are attending the annual Sun Valley Conference, the so-called summer camp for billionaires in Idaho. Just to drive home the disparities that much further.on CNBC, Disney CEO Bob Iger called the expectations of Hollywood writers and actors “unrealistic,” which he found “very disturbing.
He’s right, there’s an entire economy built around show business. And it’s shrinking in terms of what most people are paid for their labor, and ballooning when it comes to executive compensation, mergers, monopolies and cynicism.As more than one person has pointed out, if studio executives were genuinely concerned about the effects of a prolonged strike on the local economy, they probably wouldn’t be so recalcitrant about the issues at hand.Artificial intelligence.
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