davidaugust, to money
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davidaugust, to Netflix
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Here’s an idea: fair deals for everyone everywhere who makes film and TV. While we’re at it, fair deals for everyone everywhere who works. Full stop.

davidaugust, to workersrights
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davidaugust, to random
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Perhaps it was never about the money, it is about exerting the power, making others break, and inflicting pain.

As brilliant screenwriter, David Slack can make a simple image tell a clear story below.

davidaugust, to random
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Did you know that the CEO of General Motors, Mary T. Barra, is also on the board of The Walt Disney Company?

They are, and the UAW are quite literally up against the same people SAG-AFTRA and WGA are up against. Their fight is our fight.

Maybe concentrating wealth and power in only a few hands was a bad idea.

JoParkerBear, to random

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”.

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/02/1190605685/movie-extras-worry-theyll-be-replaced-by-ai-hollywood-is-already-doing-body-scan

davidaugust, to random
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davidaugust, to tv
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Are shareholders really ok with this foolishness?

Is the audience?

davidaugust, to random
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There are 160,000 members of SAG-AFTRA, with at least 87% unable to meet the minimum for healthcare eligibility. Actors are usually working-class, without achieving million-dollar earnings or attending red carpet awards ceremonies. to make things better.

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I was at the picket line outside WB Discovery on 19th St yesterday and the energy was huge and powerful and positive. Then I came home and ran into my UPS guy on the block and he said WE WON OUR BATTLE YOU WILL WIN YOURS

A crowd of strikers on a picket line with SAG-AFTRA ON STRIKE signs.

davidaugust, (edited ) to random
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Please join a picket this week in New York and Los Angeles ✊🪧

The actors want your help.

All supporters welcome, you don’t have to be a member to join.

Please share this with everyone you think is interested.

details: https://www.sagaftrastrike.org/picket-schedule-locations

JeriLRyan, to random
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Back from France and on the picket line this morning… ✊🏼

https://universeodon.com/@Brentodders/110817320274688270

davidaugust, to random
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It would be a shame if someone posted the article that apparently GQ pulled shortly after publication about David Zaslav.

Even worse if it were an easy to save single image and could be re-shared.

$wbd
h/t Matt Zoller Seitz & @Prex4

davidaugust, to random
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The New York Times wrote up WGA StrikeShirts and the cause. Nice work, @jessicaroy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/21/style/wga-sag-strike-merch.html

The shirts are all union printed and all net proceeds go to the Entertainment Community Fund to help support those impacted by the strikes. I’ve been happy to help them with some SAG-AFTRA designs.

Get them here: https://wgastrikeshirts.com/collections/sag-aftra


cc @deadbat @neilhimself

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Burbank's Dark Delicacies bookstore are comrades

ChristyLeeHughes, to random

There’s noise from people who don’t get it + shouldn’t be talking because they have no facts. Proud to be SAG-AFTRA but 87% don’t qualify for health insurance as we don’t make $26,000 a year. I work 2 jobs to make ends meet. What we’re asking for is absolute peanuts. It’s bare minimum scraps + billionaires have the audacity to say we’re unrealistic. We deserve so much more than what we’re asking for, but they’d rather replace us with robots. Stand up for us

davidaugust, to workersrights
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Abusive behavior is never needed, always wasteful and should change.

davidaugust, to random
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Assistance for writers and actors on strike is out there.

Sometimes food support frees up funds for other things there may not be support for (like your cell phone bill).

(the Entertainment Community Fund may be a good starting point to seek other options too)

paulkatz, to random

The SAG-AFTRA strike has been called.

We are in the middle of a massive paradigm shift. The entertainment "game" is about to change - for the better - for all artists, if not labor in general

The era of the "mogul," at least in terms of an "old Hollywood" definition, is over.

davidaugust, to ai
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US Copyright Office wants to hear what people think about AI and copyright:
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/29/23851126/us-copyright-office-ai-public-comments

You can submit your comments to the US Copyright Office on their site at:
https://copyright.gov/policy/artificial-intelligence/

h/t Chewie Darsow

davidaugust, to random
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Today #wgastrikeshirts made another donation of its proceeds to support those impacted by #ActorsStrike & #WritersStrike.

Get their union printed shirts, support the Entertainment Community Fund & wear an expression of your support of #SAGAFTRAstrong & #WGAstrong at: https://wgastrikeshirts.com/collections/sag-aftra

davidaugust, to tv
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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.

Apple: the wealthiest company on earth.

https://allyourscreens.com/en/component/k2/item/3731-exclusive-an-apple-tv-executive-talks-streaming-the-strike-global-television

Q: Where does the DGA fit into all of this? Why do you think they agreed to a contract with AMPTP? A: I can't speak to where their head is at on that. I do think that directors tend to think they can't be replaced in the entertainment assembly line and that perspective has only gotten stronger in the era of mini-rooms, where the director becomes even more important when they might be the only person who is there for the entire process. Especially now that writers are often not able to be on set or stay on as the production continues. What they don't get is that they can be replaced. The golden ticket for every major streamer is to be able to produce a show that looks like it was produced in the U.S. But that was shot overseas with non-union crews and only a handful of American actors. Despite all of their other issues, American writers are tough to replace. We've found - and I think Netflix has had the same experience - that writing is a very culturally specific thing. It has a vibe…

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