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Call it the Hollywood-labor-organizing version of Avengers Assemble! On the heels of more than a year’s worth of damning disclosures around Marvel Studios’ systematic overworking and underpayment of visual-effects workers on its blockbuster movies and streaming series, VFX crews at Marvel have finally petitioned to demand union recognition from the studio. On Monday, a group of more than 50 on-set employees filed a petition for an election to be represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) with the National Labor Relations Board. The workers are asking for the election to be held as early as August 21.

This marks the first time visual-effects professionals have banded together to demand the same rights, wage protections, and professional watchdog oversight enjoyed by workers in almost every other segment of the entertainment industry. The supermajority of Marvel’s 52-member on-set production crew signed authorization cards to indicate they wish to be represented by the powerful labor union representing some 170,000 artisans, technicians, stagehands, and craftspeople across TV, film, and live theater in the United States and Canada.

“For almost half a century, workers in the visual-effects industry have been denied the same protections and benefits their coworkers and crewmates have relied upon since the beginning of the Hollywood film industry,” VFX organizer for IATSE Mark Patch said in a statement. “This is a historic first step for VFX workers coming together with a collective voice demanding respect for what we do.”

In an era when around 90 percent of all films in release feature varying degrees of VFX fine-tuning (and it’s not uncommon for a show like Stranger Things to showcase up to 4,400 visual-effects shots across a single season), workers within the field have remained stubbornly, confoundingly unrepresented by any professional union or guild. While fellow below-the-line workers in such divisions as costumes and wardrobe; hair and makeup; lighting, props and paint; and script supervision have been historically championed by IATSE, underappreciated VFX professionals have been unable to claim benefits such as paid overtime and health care, and have been at the mercy of pronounced labor shortages and managers’ unrealistic deadlines — despite the workers’ increasing indispensability within popular culture.

“Turnaround times don’t apply to us, protected hours don’t apply to us, and pay equity doesn’t apply to us,” said VFX coordinator Bella Huffman. “Visual effects must become a sustainable and safe department for everyone who’s suffered far too long and for all newcomers who need to know they won’t be exploited.”
 
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they got $27.9 million back for filming in the UK, so $113.4m not including post-production costs for 6 episodes.
 
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I can't wait until she tries to go into Deadpool's mind. That's gotta be some sort of montage or vaudeville show shenanigans that go on when she does that. Could be great.
 
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I can't wait until she tries to go into Deadpool's mind. That's gotta be some sort of montage or vaudeville show shenanigans that go on when she does that. Could be great.

it's gonna be akin to flash animations like Charlie the Unicorn and Retarded Animal Babies
 
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Khane

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It's gonna be strongbad dressed up as deadpool doing a teen girl squad skit
 
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she's super hot. its a sony movie (venom morbius etc) so not sure who will be allowed to show up and who is not. would tom holland show up as spidey or would they start using tobey/garfield?
 
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she's super hot. its a sony movie (venom morbius etc) so not sure who will be allowed to show up and who is not. would tom holland show up as spidey or would they start using tobey/garfield?

No Jessica Drew? Lame. I guess it makes sense here though as she eventually became the second Madame Web.
 

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“I think superhero fatigue absolutely exists,” DaCosta told Total Film magazine. “The biggest difference from the other MCU movies to date is that [‘The Marvels’ is] really wacky, and silly. The worlds we go to in this movie are worlds unlike others you’ve seen in the MCU. Bright worlds that you haven’t seen before.”

“‘The Avengers’ movies are these epic conclusions to chapters of storytelling, whereas this is a team-up within the narrative that we didn’t necessarily expect for Marvel,” producer Mary Livanos added about what makes “The Marvels” stand out. “Usually, you wait for characters to show up all together in ‘Avengers’ movies. We were excited to design a team-up featuring characters that women from all walks of life could relate to.”
 
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Kalaar kururuc

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she's super hot. its a sony movie (venom morbius etc) so not sure who will be allowed to show up and who is not. would tom holland show up as spidey or would they start using tobey/garfield?

She has massive tits but there is something odd about her face. Yes, I realise this a knees too sharp comment.

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Chukzombi

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She's probably a bit white trash looking and is plastered in makeup so thst she doesn't look too plain/ugly.
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Sydney Bernice Sweeney was born on September 12, 1997, in Spokane, Washington, to Lisa (née Mudd) and Steven Sweeney. Her mother is a former criminal defense lawyer, and her father is a hospitality professional.[4] She has a brother, Trent.[5] Sweeney was raised in northwestern Idaho[6] in the state's Panhandle region along the Washington border, at a rural lakeside home that her family has inhabited for five generations.[7] Sweeney has said she has a "religious family".[8]
 
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Malakriss

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"People don't want to see DC level of quality" so maybe Marvel should not be dropping that low if you want people to watch it.
 
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