![]() ![]() The last time screen actors and writers struck simultaneously, in 1960, the guilds established royalty (later residual) payments for replays of films and TV episodes, among other landmark protections. Until this gets resolved, this issue will keep coming up.” ![]() “So naturally, they’re complaining, ‘We need our fair share.’ But how do you decide what’s a fair share? There has to be a transparency about where the money is coming from and where it’s going. With streaming, the whole business got disrupted,” says Telang. “What is happening right now was bound to happen. Rahul Telang, a Carnegie Mellon University professor and co-author of the book “Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment,” says an entire era of change was condensed into two years. Subscriber growth became the top priority. A digital land rush to streaming ensued, as studios, in many cases, hurried to craft their Netflix competitors. Though many of the demands of SAG-AFTRA and the WGA are longstanding, much of the current dispute gathered force in the helter-skelter days of the pandemic. “This is the worst time in the world to add to that disruption.” It’s not completely back,” Disney CEO Bob Iger said Thursday. “We’ve talked about disruptive forces on this business and all the challenges we’re facing, the recovery from COVID which is ongoing. Box office remains about 20-25% off the pre-pandemic pace. And as its big-but-not-blockbuster opening showed, some of pre-pandemic Hollywood still just hasn’t returned. Over the weekend, one of the first major film productions shut down by the pandemic - “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” - only just reached theaters. “Moving around furniture on the Titanic?”ĭisaster also loomed in Hollywood when COVID-19 in March 2020 shuttered movie theaters, emptied TV studios and shut down all production. “We’re not going to keep doing incremental changes on a contract that no longer honors what is happening right now with this business model that was foisted upon us. “You cannot change the business model as much as it has changed and not expect the contract to change, too,” said Fran Drescher, SAG-AFTRA president, in a fiery press conference announcing the strike. When tens of thousands Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists hit the picket lines last week, joining 11,000 Writers Guild of America screenwriters who have been on strike since May, a smaller clash went nuclear just in time for the release of “Oppenheimer.” As striking actors and writers mobilized to mob studio lots and streamer headquarters, Puck’s Matthew Belloni wrote, “The town is burning to the ground.” ![]() Having weathered plague, Hollywood is now fully at war in its own “Apocalypse Now” double feature. ![]() This time, though, the industry is engaged in a bitter battle over how streaming - after advancing rapidly during the pandemic - has upended the economics of entertainment. Three years after the pandemic brought Hollywood to a standstill, the film and TV industry has again ground to a halt. “There’s a lot of ways to lose your house.” “Listen to me, mother-(expletive),” Perlman said. Perlman, the hulking, gravel-voiced actor of “Hellboy,” leaned into the camera in a since-deleted Instagram live video to vent his anger. NEW YORK (AP) - To get a sense of just how much animosity is flying around Hollywood these days, watch how Ron Perlman responded to a report that the studios aimed to prolong a strike long enough for writers to lose their homes. ![]()
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