Actors will join screenwriters in a combined strike that will have huge consequences for Hollywood. Leaders of SAG-AFTRA, the union that represents the actors, voted Thursday to strike after contract talks collapsed with the studios and streaming service
What does streaming have to do with the actors strike? Actors also want to make up for what the union has called an erosion in residuals payments — pay that performers get when a movie or TV episode they appear on re-airs, which in previous decades has supplied steady incomes to actors...
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The end of the actors strike played out differently from that of the writers strike, which also took place this past summer. The Writers Guild of America reached their tentative deal with the AMPTP on September 24, and it was ratified about two weeks later. SAG-AFTRA's deal has been under...
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What makes the industrial action so historic is that, for the first time in 63 years, both SAG-AFTRA and WGA (the Writers Guild of America) will be on strike at the same time. Members of the WGAhave been striking for the last two monthsand that has already ...
Video game actors are going on strike after contract talks fail over AI terms July 25, 2024 “We’re not going to consent to a contract that allows companies to abuse AI to the detriment of our members,” SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher said in a statement Thursday. “Enough ...
Starting July 27, the union also allowed actors to “audition and/or engage in negotiations regarding casting for” certain productions, but actors are not yet allowed to “travel, rehearse, or otherwise begin rendering services for the production” under strike rules. Those productions are not...
Actors’ Strike: SAG-AFTRA Releases List of Proposals and Studios’ Counterproposals Actors’ union has released a detailed list of their proposals and the AMPTP’s counteroffers, revealing just how far off the two sides are NOT CLOSE
“If this strike wasn’t happening now, then AI could’ve become something that spiraled out of control,” Lindell said. “But given the reaction that we have right now, I think it’s something that can be used to benefit everybody rather than to hurt people.” ...