While guild members would love to get back to work, the one thing they’re not going to do after months on the picket lines, whatever the studio’s strategic game plan when the strike began, is roll over and play dead.
Hollywood glamour doesn't pay the rent. Many of the people who actually make the movies and television shows we love so much — whose hard work creates stories, sound stages, spectacular costumes, and so much more — are barely scraping by.
The unions raised the need for antitrust enforcement, and the Biden administration’s top antitrust cops paid attention. The one-two punch of simultaneous WGA and SAG strikes, for the first time in 60 years, has stalled out virtually all productions.
Women Talking is about the struggle to unearth language capable of describing profound desires for freedom and safety.
One film can’t do it all, but I can’t help feeling that the retelling of this story, as it stands, is a missed opportunity.
‘Oppenheimer’ and the anguish of creative destruction
Extras - they fear the general public thinks all actors get paid handsomely and are doing it for the love of the craft, almost as a hobby. Yet in most cases, it's their only job, and they need to qualify for health insurance, pay rent or a mortgage,
Media past, present and future
"The Nanny" speaks on land barons, new business models and why she is the right person for the job. “I think that the whole world is looking at us right now, because human beings in all different walks of life are being replaced by robots.”
160,000 actors, members of SAG-AFTRA, are shutting down all industry filming and voice-over production at midnight tonight. They are joining the 11,000 writers, members of the Writers Guild, who have been on strike since May 2.
Spread the word