EXCLUSIVE, updated with AMPTP statement: Regardless of whether SAG-AFTRA goes on strike this week, the studios have no intention of sitting down with the Writers Guild for several more months. “I t…
“The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,” a studio executive told Deadline.
Can someone explain why SAG-AFTRA is on strike? is is just solidarity with writers? I have a hard time giving a shit about actors not making enough money when there are people way worse off.
Because studios have suddenly become veryt reticent about guaranteeing actor's control of their own likeness with regard to AI perfornances, for one thing.
I have a hard time giving a shit about actors not making enough money when there are people way worse off.
I love the idea that you think that the majority of actors are hugely well-paid. Most are struggling. The fact that you see stars going out on strike is about - yes their own contracts- but also to protect the rights of the thousands of actors who work in in supporting roles etc.
Supply and demand. Everyone wants to be an actor, doesn't mean everyone gets to be one. Absolutely an oversupply in that industry. Same with tons of other industries, so cry me a river.
You’re looking at fees for movies with a $2m budget only. In 2022 there were a total of 449 movies released in the US in total. You are completely ignoring television, advertising and promotional and streaming production.
$125 per day for the lowest budget film possible ie lowest rate possible as an actor? Seems pretty ok to me given the ROI on a 250k budget film. It's only upwards from there. Again, I'm not sure what you expect. Wannabe actors are a dime a dozen. Supply and demand.
And this is why union busting has been a priority over the last 50 years. If everything supplying a studio came through unionized shops, the studios wouldn't get shit die to not crossing picket lines and would be stuck.
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