Writers Guild Strike 2023

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Gravel

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They're not doing a very good job, because who the fuck even knew Drew Barrymore had a show?
 
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Goatface

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They're not doing a very good job, because who the fuck even knew Drew Barrymore had a show?
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spronk

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lol looks like the actors strike may not end soon, keeping Hollywood shut down for 2023 haha

 
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Instead of a 1% levy on all streaming revenue, the guild wanted a $1 per subscriber per year fee. The studios balked

This was an unusual first-dollar revenue share regardless of profit or any individual contributions to the success of any show, much less a company. The money would go to the guild itself rather than individual actors on any show — and the union would decide how to distribute.
 

Cybsled

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$1 per year would mean cost goes up $2. They aren’t going to eat that loss of profit
 
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Malakriss

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The offer would remove the $1 million cap on membership dues. In an effort to bring a residual system to streaming, the stars also have proposed a formula that would make the lowest names on the call sheet who most need the money the first to be paid.
Deadline revealed Tuesday that a quorum of stars including George Clooney, Emma Stone, Ben Affleck, Tyler Perry and Scarlett Johansson met with SAG leaders

‘A lot of the top earners want to be part of the solution,” the two-time Oscar winner told Deadline. “We’ve offered to remove the cap on dues, which would bring over $50 million to the union annually. Well over $150 million over the next three years. We think it’s fair for us to pay more into the union. We also are suggesting a bottom-up residual structure — meaning the top of the call sheet would be the last to collect residuals, not the first.
 

Harshaw

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The actor’s union SAG-AFTRA has announced that its members should not dress up as popular characters from struck content for Halloween.

Thus actors who are members of the union will be unable to dress up as most film or TV characters and post those images on social media – no costumes like Barbie, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Wednesday Addams or Marvel superheroes are allowed.

Instead, the guild advised its members to “choose costumes inspired by generalized characters and figures – ghost, zombie, spider, etc.” though figures from non-struck content like animated TV shows are fine.

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Fucker

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The actor’s union SAG-AFTRA has announced that its members should not dress up as popular characters from struck content for Halloween.

Thus actors who are members of the union will be unable to dress up as most film or TV characters and post those images on social media – no costumes like Barbie, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Wednesday Addams or Marvel superheroes are allowed.

Instead, the guild advised its members to “choose costumes inspired by generalized characters and figures – ghost, zombie, spider, etc.” though figures from non-struck content like animated TV shows are fine.

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This...this is what going full retard looks like.
 

Chukzombi

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The actor’s union SAG-AFTRA has announced that its members should not dress up as popular characters from struck content for Halloween.

Thus actors who are members of the union will be unable to dress up as most film or TV characters and post those images on social media – no costumes like Barbie, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Wednesday Addams or Marvel superheroes are allowed.

Instead, the guild advised its members to “choose costumes inspired by generalized characters and figures – ghost, zombie, spider, etc.” though figures from non-struck content like animated TV shows are fine.

he never smiles star trek GIF
why are they wearing costumes? arent they supposed to be picketing? because they are on strike? and going as a spider? like an actual spider?
 
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Gravel

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What a bizarre request. "Don't dress up as a character for Halloween."

What in the fuck does that have to do with the strike at all? Someone going to mistake them for being on set?
 

Deathwing

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"We told the studios we want more money to play these characters, so don't go doing it for free." Something like that. I'm not saying it's not bizarre or stupid, but that's about the only logic I could twist from it.
 
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Chukzombi

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i didnt know that she was once the SAG president.
Former SAG-AFTRA president Melissa Gilbert has blasted a SAG-AFTRA message that urged its members not to dress up as characters from struck companies this Halloween.

SAG-AFTRA published a post on its website encouraging members to “celebrate Halloween this year while also staying in solidarity.” The guild recommended striking actors “choose costumes inspired by generalized characters and figures,” including a “ghost, zombie, spider, etc.,” or “characters from non-struck content, like an animated TV show.”

Gilbert was incensed at the suggestions.
“THIS is what you guys come up with? Literally no one cares what anyone wears for Halloween,” Gilbert wrote on Instagram. “I mean, do you really think this kind of infantile stuff is going to end the strike? We look like a joke. Please tell me you’re going to make this rule go away… and go negotiate!”



Gilbert directly tagged the Instagram accounts of current SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland.

“For the love of God, people are suffering mightily and this is what you have to say… c’mon guys… This is the kind of silly bullshit that keeps us on strike. ‘Let’s enact a policy that makes us look petty and incompetent at the same time.’”

Gilbert was in charge of the actors union from 2001 to 2005.
 

Ambiturner

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why are they wearing costumes? arent they supposed to be picketing? because they are on strike? and going as a spider? like an actual spider?

Why are they wearing costumes on Halloween? How are you so old and still have no idea how any of the world works?
 
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j00t

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"We told the studios we want more money to play these characters, so don't go doing it for free." Something like that. I'm not saying it's not bizarre or stupid, but that's about the only logic I could twist from it.
i don't know exactly who said it, or where they said it, but someone speaking on behalf of sag-aftra said that the bargaining power of a strike is to not promote a studios product in ANY way and dressing up for halloween falls under that category (somehow).

i think it's pretty great that the actors are all up in arms about this, basically saying that the union's job is to negotiate in good faith, not make everyone involved look incompetent. yeah, sorry, that's what union's do.
 
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spronk

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no actor press tours for aquaman 2 and wonka will kill those movies lol
 
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