discussion SAG strike | SAG-AFTRA Reaches Tentative Agreement With Studios

[Sexyzinger]

4 hours ago, dabunique said:

Legend is also a former Miss Teen USA and top 6 finalist at Miss USA

[harwee]

On 7/11/2023 at 4:11 PM, Sexyzinger said:

Will this affect the Mortal Kombat 1 videogame panel featuring the voice actors from the game? Kelly Hu is one of the panelists and she is both a film actress & voice actress. 

 

As of today I think that's still on.

[Sexyzinger]

Just now, harwee said:

 

As of today I think that's still on.

Ok great, thank you!!

[JoJo]

3 hours ago, X~MoviePoP said:

Soooo will they go shoot everything in canada then

No. If SAG strikes that means any production that has SAG actors will come to a halt, including international productions.

[harwee]

2 minutes ago, Sexyzinger said:

Ok great, thank you!!

****, sorry I meant as of yesterday.

 

They also did say its tentative due to the strike and to be confirmed on Friday. 

Sign up on the con newsletter but its all going to come out on Friday.

 

 

[Brunette Ambition]

There hasn’t been one good movie script that came out of Hollywood in 10 years. They might as well be replaced with AI 

[X~MoviePoP]

22 minutes ago, JoJo said:

No. If SAG strikes that means any production that has SAG actors will come to a halt, including international productions.

Yes but they can use Canadian actors since actors in canada have their own union

[Chiidish]

1 hour ago, Brunette Ambition said:

There hasn’t been one good movie script that came out of Hollywood in 10 years. They might as well be replaced with AI 

Me when I have no taste in anything 

[publikcitizen]

so i guess the strike is actually going to happen

[publikcitizen]

One more hour right? 

[publikcitizen]

The deadline expired so I guess they’re officially on strike 

[Uncatena]

6 hours ago, Brunette Ambition said:

There hasn’t been one good movie script that came out of Hollywood in 10 years.

a genuinely insane thing to say btw

[mystery]

[Right Now]

This is iconic.

[Hephaestus]

Get 'em! 

[Uncatena]

wow, incredible

[Blade Runner]

Hopefully the writers will get that they DESERVE and these nasty studios will burn in hell.

 

Edited July 13, 2023 by Blade Runner

[Bubble Tea]

Finally some peace & quiet. 

[Brunette Ambition]

5 hours ago, Chiidish said:

Me when I have no taste in anything 

What are these good scripts?  Any examples, as you seem to have good taste?
 

 

[Hurem]

[Hephaestus]

OPEN. YOUR. WALLETS.

 

[Bloodflowers.]

Can someone explain what is going on and what do actors demand? I know about writers strike, but this is new

[mystery]

DEADLINE: SAG-AFTRA Contract Talks Fail To Reach Deal; National Board Meeting Thursday Morning To Launch Strike; Sides Issue Statements
 

It will be the first actors strike against the film and television industry since 1980 and the first time that actors and writers have been on strike at the same time since 1960, when Ronald Reagan was president of the Screen Actors Guild. Picketing is set to begin Friday morning.

 

Here is the full statement from SAG-AFTRA:

SAG-AFTRA’s Television/Theatrical/Streaming contracts have expired without a successor agreement. After more than four weeks of bargaining, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) — the entity that represents major studios and streamers, including Amazon, Apple, Disney, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Paramount, Sony and Warner Bros. Discovery — remains unwilling to offer a fair deal on the key issues that are essential to SAG-AFTRA members. 

In the face of the AMPTP’s intransigence and delay tactics, SAG-AFTRA’s negotiating committee voted unanimously to recommend to the National Board a strike of the Producers-SAG-AFTRA TV/Theatrical/Streaming Contracts which expired July 12, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. PT. SAG-AFTRA’s National Board will vote Thursday morning on whether to strike. The union will hold a press conference today, Thursday, July 13, at 12 noon PT at SAG-AFTRA Plaza in Los Angeles, following the conclusion of the National Board vote.
 

The AMPTP issued this statement shortly after 1 a.m. PT:

“We are deeply disappointed that SAG-AFTRA has decided to walk away from negotiations. This is the Union’s choice, not ours. In doing so, it has dismissed our offer of historic pay and residual increases, substantially higher caps on pension and health contributions, audition protections, shortened series option periods, a groundbreaking AI proposal that protects actors’ digital likenesses, and more. Rather than continuing to negotiate, SAG-AFTRA has put us on a course that will deepen the financial hardship for thousands who depend on the industry for their livelihoods.”

 

The Writers Guild’s strike, meanwhile, is now entering its 73rd day with no end in sight. Many striking writers, however, have been rooting for SAG-AFTRA to go on strike alongside them in a show of union solidarity that will force the studios to return to the bargaining table and recognize their demands for a bigger share of the profits their work creates. The guild’s contract had originally been set to expire on June 30 but was extended until July 12 to allow bargaining to continue.
 

The strike will shut down films and scripted TV shows that employ SAG-AFTRA members not just in the United States but around the world. Soap operas, which fall under a separate contract, are exempted. Under the guild’s Global Rule One: “No member shall render any services or make an agreement to perform services for any employer who has not executed a basic minimum agreement with the union, which is in full force and effect, in any jurisdiction in which there is a SAG-AFTRA national collective bargaining agreement in place. This provision applies worldwide.”
 

Blindsided by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers’ eleventh-hour proposal for federal mediation and insisting that it would not agree to another contract extension, the guild said “the AMPTP has abused our trust and damaged the respect we have for them in this process. We will not be manipulated by this cynical ploy to engineer an extension when the companies have had more than enough time to make a fair deal.”
 

On June 5, the guild’s members voted 98% in favor of authorizing a strike if a fair deal couldn’t be reached. The decision to strike comes nearly three weeks after members of the Directors Guild overwhelmingly ratified their own new contract, and against the backdrop of a grassroots campaign that urged SAG-AFTRA to stand strong at the bargaining table and “join the WGA on the picket lines” if a major “realignment in our industry” can’t be achieved. More than 1,700 actors, including many prominent SAG-AFTRA members, recently signed a letter to guild leaders saying that they “would rather go on strike” and “join the WGA on the picket lines” than compromise on key issues.
 

As for residuals, the guild said: “While new business models mean that more and more SAG-AFTRA content is monetized around the globe, residuals payments are failing to reflect the economic value of this exhibition. SAG-AFTRA is committed to ensuring residual payments both reflect the economic value of our members’ contribution and serve as a meaningful source of performer earnings.
 

With respect to AI, the guild has said that “artificial intelligence has already proven to be a real and immediate threat to the work of our members and can mimic members’ voices, likenesses and performances. We must get agreement around acceptable uses, bargain protections against misuse, and ensure consent and fair compensation for the use of your work to train AI systems and create new performances. In their public statements and policy work, the companies have not shown a desire to take our members’ basic rights to our own voices and likenesses seriously.”

 

Self-taped auditions, meanwhile, “are unregulated and out of control,” the guild said. “Too many pages, too little time and unreasonable requirements have made self-taping auditions a massive, daily, uncompensated burden on the lives of performers. Reasonable rules and limitations, and access to other casting formats, are sorely needed to ensure fair access to work opportunities and protect performers against exploitation.”

The guild also said that “Many other important issues, including those specific to particular careers and categories, will be on the table as well.”

[kimberly]

“The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,” a studio executive tells Deadline.

 

whoever said this deserves guillotine

[mystery]

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