I am sorry I can not gift this hot mess of a corporate-media drama article (there is no such option) but I think it will become available to all readers at some point.) It reads like real-life Succession minus the national politics. No wonder what is happening across the industry is so effed up. Don't give them your money.
"We are designing the game to be as platform agnostic as possible, so that we can certainly explore ensuring a version of the game is available natively on Linux (among other platforms)" ~Mat / Studio Director
The plot? "100,000 citizens into space where they hope to begin a journey to find a new and habitable home. The rest of Earth’s population will perish".
A look at some photo studios in Singapore who kept working during the Japanese occupation.
"Some of the prewar photo studios that had serviced people wanting to mark significant events in their lives were able to reopen their businesses. It was not business as usual though."
Rome's Cinecittà Studios embraces a new golden age.
Rome's legendary studios have regained the effervescence of the 1950s and 1960s, after decades of hardship during which they were almost transformed into an amusement park.
Inch by inch, bit by bit (very punny*), #SAGAFTRA and #AMPTP#strike negotiations continue on, with meetings scheduled for Wednesday, and SAG-AFTRA asking members to congregate picketing outside #Disney#studios as that studio enters the first day it can begin negotiations with #Comcast regarding ownership of #Hulu.
*#AI may be the largest obstacle, though #compensation is also not fully resolved.
"I don’t mind a parasite. I object to a cut-rate one."
Those #AMPTP parasites need to put a fair offer on the table, finally.
There's more than enough money for the #studios and #streamers to stay obscenely wealthy while paying and treating everyone else in the business fairly.
Background #actors and others need to realize that the way the #AMPTP#studios and #streamers will use #AI, if not restricted, will mean that nearly all of them will have literally one or two more jobs, ever, as actors.
The #SAGAFTRA#union continues to highlight AI as a key ongoing sticking point to resolving the #strike.
With so many issues raised by the use of #AI, and the rapid changes in this still new #technology, the #AMPTP need to drop their demands on this and end the #strike.
It's only three years until the next contract negotiations, and by then we should all have a much better sense of how best to use AI in ways that #SAGAFTRA, et al. can protect all of the members of its #union.
#IATSE's #contract expires next summer, and if the issue of #residuals for the "#creatives" is resolved fairly, that could help the "below the line" workers when it's their time to negotiate with the #studios.
The Writers Guild of America said it will meet with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on Friday to discuss resuming negotiations.
There are many large and #serious#problems in the world. Many people are victimized by the #system in a thousand different ways. This is not their story; it is not about their problems, but this should not be seen as minimizing them.
I'd like to talk about something a little closer to home: #employee#abuse in the #tech field. I've been in this field for <mumble> years and worked for tiny companies, medium consulting companies, large orgs, and as a one-man independent contractor.
💯 Studios could have focused on producing film and TV to sell to tech companies like Netflix to fill their libraries.
Instead they decided to compete with Netflix and launch their own streaming services, and became unwitting tech companies.
Turns out running a tech company sucks.
NBC could have sold The Office syndication rights to Netflix for $500m and instead launched Peacock, a service nobody wants to use and needed $500m in subs just to break even.
@rodhilton they even early made Netflix into competition by pulling their content off of Netflix using sunset clauses. Netflix never needed to go into original programming until studios and networks did that.
Sure, the studios and networks didn’t want Netflix to horizontally integrate distribution and then dictate terms, it instead found a likely more destructive option: where we are now.
When we consider the #WGA#strike we might think it's big bad studios & their greedy leaders being unwilling to given even an inch to the lowly #writers. There's a lot of truth in that, but there's also the fundamental nature of the situation. In other words, it's #ClassStruggle. #Capitalists (those who own the #studios & control the money) want to profit off the #labor of others. It's not just about some people being bad, it's also structural & ideological, like any other capitalist system.
Microsoft would buy Valve 'if opportunity arises,' said Phil Spencer in leaked email (www.pcgamer.com)
But its prime target was Nintendo, according to a 2020 email leaked during the FTC v Microsoft trial.
Writers Guild and studios agree to talks three months after strike began (www.latimes.com)
The Writers Guild of America said it will meet with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on Friday to discuss resuming negotiations.