Hollywood is on Strike
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On the other hand they were getting screwed by unreleased projects too. Maybe not as heavily due to different pay structures, but the credit issue is still there.
Yeah, this is having a huge impact on the California economy, and last I read at least 17,000 people were currently laid off or unemployed who'd otherwise be working.
The main people being hurt here are them, as well as middle-class actors who are more paycheque to paycheque, or even poorer actors who haven't really made it yet or found their niche. The big multi-millionaire assholes getting all the press aren't suffering one iota.
Maybe, in addition to a few other changes, the studios need to stop paying A-listers dumptrucks full of money. Less millionaires in the world hurts nobody.
The main people being hurt here are them, as well as middle-class actors who are more paycheque to paycheque, or even poorer actors who haven't really made it yet or found their niche. The big multi-millionaire assholes getting all the press aren't suffering one iota.
Maybe, in addition to a few other changes, the studios need to stop paying A-listers dumptrucks full of money. Less millionaires in the world hurts nobody.
My comment wasn't intended to be derogatory. Just an acknowledgement. It is easy to feel like there is no way someone's couple months of work can be worth $10 million (and yeah, their WORK isn't), but when a movie is going to earn hundreds of millions of dollars SOMEONE is going to get a lot of money and it might as well be actor X who a lot of those people were coming to see. When it comes down to it, the studios are the one deciding to pay all that money and they are doing it because they think it will make THEM the most money. But I also don't mind, if that money is there, if the gaffers and key grips make sure at their contract time that they are getting what they ought to before the rest gets dumped on a star.
Behind-the-scenes crew(*) have their own union, IATSE, who support the strike.
(* Except for CGI artists, which is why so many productions these days rely on cheap CGI made by a PA on a laptop rather than well-made practical effects that they'd actually have to pay for.)
(* Except for CGI artists, which is why so many productions these days rely on cheap CGI made by a PA on a laptop rather than well-made practical effects that they'd actually have to pay for.)
Millionaire actors (and millionaire athletes) honestly work more and harder than nearly anyone else who's a millionaire.
Are there overpaid stars? Sure, sometimes they put a big name in a small role but still pay them more than the actors playing the larger roles, and that is unfair (child actors in particular tend to be wildly underpaid for the roles that make them famous), and sometimes they cast big names who aren't even good for the role (especially in animated movies).
But not even the richest actor is as overpaid as the executives who primarily profit from other people's work and are largely seen as meddlers if they do try to do anything else.
Are there overpaid stars? Sure, sometimes they put a big name in a small role but still pay them more than the actors playing the larger roles, and that is unfair (child actors in particular tend to be wildly underpaid for the roles that make them famous), and sometimes they cast big names who aren't even good for the role (especially in animated movies).
But not even the richest actor is as overpaid as the executives who primarily profit from other people's work and are largely seen as meddlers if they do try to do anything else.
I honestly haven't really been missing much of the content a lot of these people were responsible for, so they can stay on strike a lot longer afaic.
Part of that is because we haven't exhausted all the content that was completed or in post-production when the strike started. We, consumers, aren't apt to really start feeling the impact until next fall, assuming the strike doesn't roll on even longer.
sorry I meant quality-wise, not just strictly based on volume of available content
The new season of survivor is 90 minute episodes. Considering the last writers strike spawned reality TV as we know it today: I fear what loathsome abomination with be birthed with this one.
Reality TV was a thing before the last strike. In fact, I'm pretty sure that it was one of the mitigating factors that led to the one back in 2007-2008.
Survivor channel+ only 9.99 a month and you can have 24 live feeds from survivor island. including survivor island food challenge cooking shows, american ninja survivor contests and survivor alumni political debates
I saw a good video of a stirker yesterday. He is an actor that calls himself a jobber, and has been in numerous tv shows and movies over the years. One show he starred in for a web series, was taken, and turned into a tv series and rebroadcast in another country and was a hit. Instead of getting paid per the 24 webisodes, he got his time compressed to 6 episodes due to that is how it was aired, and then got his pay reduced by the time he was on screen. So instead of making the $15K for starring in this hit tv show, he got a check for $90.
And honestly, the rich bitches obstructing and delaying because they think they can starve out the peons? Yeah, that jive will work against them in the long run. Eventually, all the writers, less famous actors, the tradespeople, the cooks and all them: if it gets dragged out long enough, they will move on. They'll HAVE to, if only for their own survival... But then how they were treated, how the studios literally nickled, dimed and starved them out? That will never go away. The studios will never be able to get that level of quality worker back.
In a few years: the next major blockbusters are going to be coming from small, indepedent studios, because the major studios will be pumping out literal machine written, confusing, emotionless garbage. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, but they'll have to pay millions for those prizes cause even the academy will need bigger kickbacks to even nominate their shyte.
Ryan Nemeth?
Brendan Bradley.
No offense to either of those dudes, whom I am sure are working hard and proud of their work: those are both names stan lee would have come up with.
Lol. Well, it could be a SAG name.