While writers like me struggle to make ends meet, Hollywood studios get rich off the content we create.
While the methods of production and distribution have transformed several times over, every industry-wide strike since 1950 has been about residuals. Residuals have historically been the most hard-fought battles. Now there is streaming, and AI.
Kelvin Harrison Jr. shines as master violinist and champion fencer Joseph Bologne in a film that explores the trap of Black excellence and the sacrifices needed to achieve success in a white supremacist society.
Last week's Oscar's ceremony was groundbreaking and historic, let's look at the origins of the awards 95 years ago. It started when the original Hollywood titans wanted an industry free of unions, of residuals, union benefits, well you get the idea.
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This is a story about industrial corruption and the control of workers in that time… the late 19th century was an extraordinary period for the birth of the Union Movement and of people standing up for their rights.
The French director did more than transform the aesthetic and the practice of filmmaking—he turned the cinema into the central art form of his time.
“Latinx” may be necessary. But does it fit in the Spanish language?
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