This is a great article explaining how SAG day rate and residuals work. For a show like 'Friends' that airs on network, day rate was $500/day and residuals for a person that appeared on one episode in a speaking part could be as much as 50k a year.
Orange is the new black paid $900 a day (SAG minimum for streaming), and a person that did 7 days of work for a three episode ark. That person recieved a quarterly streaming royalty check of $27.30.
Apple’s Tim Cook is not doing the right things. A shame to see them wasting so much opportunity to thrive even more then they have by not mistreating employees.
Listen, and understand. That Iger is out there, it can't be bargained with [because it refuses to talk to writers or actors], it can't be reasoned with, it doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear, and it absolutely will not stop… EVER, until you are dead [and broke]!
"'I think one fundamental thing, they [traditional studios/networks] should certainly get out of the room with their deepest fiercest and almost conclusive enemy, Netflix, and probably with Apple and Amazon, because Netflix is in one business and they are the rulers of the business,' Diller said."
An anonymous Apple executive says out loud what we all suspected: they won’t deal because then they’d have to pay everyone what they’re worth for the work they do, and DGA’s proposed deal leaves them unprotected from replacement.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT. Disney scanned every background actor in WandaVision without giving them any explanation of how it may be used, asking them to make various facial expressions like “surprised” and “scared”.
Say no to A.I. art and writing.This is uncreative.Uses no imagination.And it takes jobs away.It takes away from good people who are writers.That work hard to feed there families.It takes away from those who make art for companies.Companies want to use A.I. to save money.Right now the writers and actors strike is at the front fighting this.We should not have computers and machines take our jobs away.We need to draw a line and say NO TO A.I. #Sagaftramembers#SAGAFTRAstrike#SAGAFTRAstrong
Netflix's "new" section is a throwback to retro content; CEOs got a compensation cut due to shareholder-imposed pay reductions. Iger and Disney face multiple lawsuits from various investor groups. 1/4
We need contractual, legislative & judicial safeguards in place to keep things more fair for everyone on all sides of every deal. We must own & control our likenesses & voices. Full stop.
Laws, courts & contracts will have to make things work better.
So Kate Bond had questions about the AI provisions in the SAG-AFTRA tentative agreement, and wisely asked Jeff Bennett, SAG-AFTRA general council about them.
Now they have shared the replies here, and it’s worth clicking through and swiping through the images to see the questions and answers if you too have questions about this: