Hollywood drama: Actors join writers in striking against producers
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2023
- For the first time in 63 years, actors and writers are on strike at the same time, demanding better pay and job protection as streaming has upended film and TV production, and artificial intelligence threatens the livelihoods of writers and actors. Correspondent Tracy Smith talks with those on the frontlines of the picket lines.
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The greed of corporations is out of control nowadays, you can work for a company making billions of dollars in profits yet never see a slightly increase in your pay. If you are thinking you are safe of this greed, you are not.
The incentive structures create these issues. The owners of these billion dollar companies always have to pander to the greed of wall street, their compensation depends on stock price and financial performance of the company. There is no incentive to do the "right" thing.
It's time for companies to leave California
I'm trying to come up with reasons to care about this strike, and I'm coming up dry. I think it'll be a net positive for independent media and the country.
@@casebarreoltt5990indeed
The corporations secret motto : ARBEIT MACHT FREI...
They should get residuals no matter how much time has passed if the show is still getting shown.
Yep they should 💯
Yes. Especially if the show is still making the platforms they are shown on money via advertising.
She gets residuals in perpetuity - But not if your show is streaming...
Do all members of a production team get residuals? Like the sound engineers and janitors?
@@redrkstone Just the above the line they call them: actors, producers, director, etc.
The comment about AI likenesses was just BS. They want to offer actors a nominal amount of $ and the studios will own the likeness forever. The ceos of these companies are making hundreds of millions a year and they want to starve out writers and actors rather than share the profits
How can someone's likeness be owned by anyone other than that human being?
@@melodyeisenberg2789 that’s pretty much sag/aftra’s position but the studios want to write a contact that says they do. #supportsag #supportwga
@@melodyeisenberg2789 Corporations will do anything to pay as little as they can for a face, let alone a whole person. And they have lawyers that will ensure it's proper.
@@melanielaneActors are hired to perform a character to which may or may not be real. I can see the studios wanting to own certain rights to a franchise, however, any one studio is only a part of the creation. Who originally created the property in question. Writers are instrumental in that process. AI is a huge issue, I see it all over RUclips in the comment section of so many well know sites. Yes, you can tell it's AI, it's odd, out of sync, disjointed for lack of better term and it generates thousands of likes drawing attention. That's absurd to the public pushing us out.
@@mayaram2411 I'm not sure of that, and define proper?
As a background actor I am appalled by the fact that many productions feel the need to shut down because of unfair wages and a need to get heard by studios, I'm very tempted to fly down to L.A. and join the picketers
Does being an extra pay anything close to a livable wage? I could never do it. The idea that I'm in the background doing nothing, while the people 10 feet away are making millions and getting all the screen time, would make me mad. I heard Robin Williams was very nice to extras. Is that true?
@iwantmyslaw3967
It's been FANTASTIC since 2016. But since the lockdowns in 2019, it's been alot harder with productions trying to save money during make movies.
And most productions will want background Actors & Extras act close up to actually ACT! So it's not always 80% in the back.
I'm with ya 💯✨
@@tobiaslewis8285 on top of that many productions because they have a certain amount of money for their budgets those productions only pay background $125 for a 12 hour shoot which is decent but before it was $88 you will need to have a part time job to make ends meet. But what gets me is how many productions treat background actors as objects/props and not actual human beings, I've been on many sets we're we were treated like normal everyday people, where recently some of the sets I've been on we've only got water, a bag of chips and if we're lucky the rest of the scraps from the meal were supposed to get after an 8 hour shift, that's not right at all, along with many productions only hiring a certain amount of people for lower wage and allowing A.I./Special effects to fill in the rest because studios don't wanna pay 15 more people
The truly talented are simply ceasing union games and working for independent media.
This is honestly just a great time for all American workers to fight back against greed and the class war
That woman needing to applying for foodstamps as a TV writer demonstrates EXACATLY why things need to change. Pretty much any business where your workers are relying on assistance in this way means the government is essentially subsidizing your business model!
Send in resumes to the websites. Not all at once
Sadly this video doesn’t go near enough into the plight of writers. Their average pay of writers before streaming was easily 100k per year. Now that pay has dropped to average of 60k per year. Given the cost of living in Hollywood that isn’t that much. Also the fact that instead of making pilot episodes, writers have to hope a script they worked on gets picked up. So imagine spending 8 hours to make a script per day. So 40 hours of work each week, but only get paid for 8 hours if you are lucky. Finally you have streaming services that will pull popular shows just so the streaming services don’t have to pay residuals.
Another fact is that the writers are not to blame for perceived low quality of shows and movies. They have to work within limits set by studio executives. Just like all corporate executives they tend to push DEI initiatives (which can be seen lately) as well as using low risks to try and get max profits. In the case of Hollywood it’s nostalgia and franchises that are generally lowest risk.
First of all, you talk too much.
Second of all this is the entertainment business.
I have no pity for people who take their paycheck from hollywood.
Maybe you should have learned how to swing a hammer or pull a wrench, Like people in the real world do.
Fantasy has its drawbacks, And the kind of garbage that Hollywood's been putting out the last 40 years. Is showing up in the horrendous ways we behave nowadays
Show me any eighteen year old male who has not killed ten thousand people in video games.
Now you're going to encourage me to be obese and gay.
No, just no.
It's CBS. are you shocked? Their own actors and writers are striking against them right now. You honestly think the CBS executives are gonna allow a hit piece about themselves to air on their own network?
Can you clarify what point you're trying to make by mentioning the DEI initiatives?
@@haute03 what they are saying is they are either in, or know someone in that field and that feel has a low market value right now.
The people in that field think they have a higher market value.
So they are going to stop working and see how that affects the market.
Please try not to be totally shocked when they realize that Hollywood has to compete with the internet.
Sorry Miss Nanny, this ain't the 90s anymore.
@@haute03 basically all the massive increase in putting “under represented “ actors in roles just to check a box off. Examples being the whole little mermaid controversy, having black actors play elves in lord of the rings, etc. roles that anyone could play, but purposefully choose to get “underrepresented “ races to play the roles
So sad how these CEO's and greedy upper management want to ruin the lives of so many people! We have to have enough money to survive and buy the things we need to enjoy our lives!!!!! AI will destroy this world if we don't keep it under control, look at the big picture. These actors and writers deserve a fair deal!!!!!!!!!!
I recall just 12-24 months ago, only a handful of people were talking about A.I. (like Sam Harris, and some his guest on his podcast). Now…OMG…everyone is talking about it. So, I give Sam Harris credit for his future vision.
Even the grocery clerks at Ralph’s shut down the self checkout aisle during the day because if they don’t they will have hours cut.
Technology moves forward, sometimes jobs change and go
@@redrkstone But acting and writing aren't jobs. They're art forms.
@@Madbandit77 lol obviously these are jobs, they get paid, have unions, and are striking against their employers.
I totally understand why the writers and the actors are on strike they have every right to be angry
I had an experience with Motion Capture and voice acting and have to say even though gaming industry is a colossus these days, voice over actors and mo cap performers are not fully considered 'equal' talent as traditional actors. What's really interesting right now is that the mainstream, 'regular' actors demand royalties for their digital likeness when it's used on new projects they are not technically involved with. Something MoCap actors could relate to...I guess the movie studios figured that their 'creative accounting' and sometimes cruel contracts/ NDA's would go unnoticed into this new era of streaming. They were wrong, preparation is everything and they were completely ill prepared for this new platform of entertainment. PS. You almost saw me as Leon in the new Resident Evil games :
No no. Im afraid you are wrong. Writers and actors take almost zero risk. There is no business with the same level of monetary risk as producing movies. You dont know much about it. So...
See if the members of the Screen Actors Guild and the Writers Guild of America will launch their own studios without having conjunctions with big name studios like Disney, MGM, Paramount, Universal, and Warner Bros.
@@fkutube933 That's a good point. Revenue wise, a movie needs to double it's budget to break even. Especially since we no longer live in an age of big time movie stars who could green light a film as well as guarantee a big office success. But the disparities by default between the wages of (male) actors and the rest of the film crew are excruciating. The so called 'below-the-line' workers who are not considered 'talent' and yet are essential to the whole production process. This have to be addressed at some point.
@@fkutube933 No no. I'm afraid YOU are wrong.
Actor here, if you want to support please consider donating to the Entertainment Community fund and also support our crews (IATSE) and Teamsters. Their solidarity means everything and they face conditions that are also exploitative. AI is very scary. I had an audition that wanted to scan my face and I said no but I have other friends who have been scanned and do not know what will become of their likeness and image. It's really scary. I see people online thinking we are all billionaires but the majority of us are not. Majority of us have survival jobs and try to make ends meet while investing in our careers with classes, workshops, headshots, etc. We love telling stories and we love doing our jobs. We strike because we have to, at this point there is no other option for us.
People don’t realize that for every big name movie star there are 100 people that are trying to make a living as a no name by getting gigs as extras or limited line roles. Those type of roles are sadly being taken over by cgi fillers.
@@matthewtaylor3347 Yup it's truly so upsetting
@@matthewtaylor3347 you can pursue a actual job.
@@brianjohnson6053facts...
@@brianjohnson6053jokes on you. I have a job in data management for a healthcare staffing company. I have no connection to the Hollywood. I’m just fascinated by the way artistic works are made. Such as how movies and tv shows are created or how props are made. That knowledge of how movies and television shows are made is base for sympathy for writers and actors.
The studios want to use ChatGPT to generate scripts and then hire writers to just “edit” the script (because most of what AI writes is nonsensical) for less money, than if the writer wrote it themselves. PLUS the studio avoids paying residuals because AI “wrote” the script, not the “editor”. It’s insidious and greedy given what studio board members make.
Have you seen content created by hollywood lately, They are nonsensical and most of these writers wrote them like the one for she hulk
@@MayankExplains was that an attempt at a joke or just pure ignorance? We’re all trying to talk about something serious and you’re making vague, lame comparisons 🤨
what does it matter, most movies coming out now anyway looks like was written by an ai
@@enderzebak2863 the worst part about a dumb, tired joke, is how many lame ppl say it 🙄
@@sirdaveysockrocker joke? who said this is a joke?
The massive greed of these CEOs knows no bounds.....its time they get shown where these boundries are.....
That's why I had a good belly laugh when the billionaires died in the sub going to see the titanic. They don't care about us.
The top ten actors make WAY more money than the top ten Hollywood CEOS - wise up. Theres no money for lower level actors because about ten actors and actresses get 95 % of it. Its America, winner take all - the rest get a few drops of trickle down. Its what Americans wanted because they though they were going to be winners too - wrong. In this country the 99% have been determined to give the 1 % everything. Now they are bitter.
Are CEO’s bonuses going to be caped too? Wattabout investors? Are they going to get a set % of winnings based on profits? No?!? Why not? That’s their offer to actors & writers
This A.i. already taken the jobs on labor works … cashier, car drive, telephone and etc.. now it’s hitting the artist world
If they were allowed to have Unions that wouldn’t be the case
What should we do?
@@ceooflonelinessinc.267 learn to prompt
@@tuckerbugeater whats that?
Town criers are no longer needed, elevator operators are no longer needed, typewriter repairmen are no longer needed, village blacksmiths are not commonly needed, switchboard operators are no longer needed, streetlight lamplighters are no longer needed. Should industries be compelled to employ people in jobs that are no longer needed? I’m sure that you might feel differently if you were a business owner dealing with ever increasing labor laws, OSHA, strikes, sick employees, pensions, salaries, poor work performance, lawsuits, sexual harassment issues, insurance costs, etc etc.
Curious why writers and actors don’t band together and start creating RUclips channels (or W Hollywood money, create their own “RUclips” w diff art genres). They can control their own content (mostly) and reap ALL the profits + sponsorship. I’m confident people don’t care where they watch so long as it’s good writing/acting.
Because you need a professional director's touch (setting up a camera, good lighting, clear sound, etc). Not all actors and writers can be directors.
and that is why you are none of those
@@Madbandit77 I am curious too. Like what if content creators like Nolan directors used youtube releases instead of "A" Studio? the answer: Only some studios can afford the scale of a Nolan production, which regularly carry price tags above $100 million and include unusually specific provisions about many things, including release plans. Disney, Paramount, Sony, and even Universal, which recently shortened the theatrical window for its movies to 17 days, may seem more appealing to a movie theater purist like Nolan. The ball appears to be in Nolan’s court.
@@cre8tion26 A movie may cost a 100 million dollars or more, but it also will cost a 100 million dollars to market it. You can make the greatest movie ever, but if people aren't aware of it, it will fail. Studios have the money to not only make movies but make sure the public is aware of it with marketing, even if it's a bad movie. Furthermore many studios have their own streaming service, and if a film doesn't do well on theatrical release they have tools like writing down a film in their taxes, and they can recoup the costs of a movie in streaming and DVD sales because the studios will be around a long time to turn that negative profit movie into something profitable. Nolan could start his own studio, but he'd not have all that and if he made say 4 great films, and then released a 5th one that didn't do great financially, it could tank his studio.
Fran Drescher should be Time's person of the year. She is doing a great job articulating the position of SAG. I want to see more big stars coming out to support publicly and on the picket lines!
What has fran done in the last 20 years
Person of the year? Really? Depressing how that criteria has slipped.
Time is as irrelevant as hollywood though?
Support actors and writers!!! 🌟🖊 👊
Nope, don’t care for the woke crap they produce.
Nope.
Hey everyone, @rnettles6241 thinks people should work for free!!!
@rnettles6241 doesn't care about ANY hard working people. The one percent nettles sees are surviving! Record high man lover here! Sick of the b.s alright @rnettles6241!!! 🌟🖊👊
Do not support @rnettles6241!!!
Interesting how these studios CEO pay rate isn’t brought up at all.
Ah yes of course it's the CEOs that are the problem not the overpaid actors.
@@xvx4848Not every actor is a Dwayne Johnson or Gal Gadot. Many are backstage actors who barely make living wages. Many of the actors aren’t doing this out of greed.
@@jaredthomas4663maybe these a list actors should stop demanding such atrocious fees or better it is how hollywood work. More popular a celebrity is the more money they pull from audience hence more money they get paid, do you think backstage actors pull any audience to make money? No. They get paid just like any other average worker does and totally deserving at it
@@xvx4848 exactly...not one of them wants to call out the wage gap of actors....which is the real problem
@@jaredthomas4663 should have pay caps for all like the president gets a standard salary
Hi! I’m in Sag and they have already AI captured my image in a very coercive way!! Therefore without the protections we strike! Thanks for the support
Support actors and writers!!! . Keep fighting, especially the writers! Writers are everything!!!!.
And this is why NEW writers are hesitant to share ideas, stories. It’s easier to edit, steal original works than write one. It ticks me off to see our sayings, writings, colloquialisms, ideas just stolen. And produced for the masses, to make a few wealthier while the authors starve.
The words to “have a creative idea” is not new. Now with AI, it’ll become routine practice. Our collective words written online, in text, spoken in our private times and recorded by APPS, makes it seamless.
It occurs with every voice recognition, recording OUR pattern of speech, regional, cultural dictation.
This is going to be constant battle. We’re being watched and recorded in so many ways.
And then they want to question why we’re flipping off cameras, and refusing face, fingerprint, or voice recognition software?!? Let US pray, and continue to be the watchdogs! Because writers reflect the societal worries, fears, nightmares, joy, hope and stories of the common man, not the profiteers. - ShanSol 71823
Instead of A.I. actors, how about A.I. CEO's?
how about just no CEO, and have the masses steer the boat
Keep fighting, especially the writers! Writers are everything!!!!
Should we all be cancelling our Netflix, Disney+, etc. subscriptions as a show of solidarity? Would that hit the billionaires where it hurts? Or would it hurt writers and actors?
We should be hunting the rich.
The guilds have not called for a boycott yet, so streaming is ok
@@leighpeters1110 haha
noone will cancel anything...lotta hoo haa and no action
everyone should cancel the industry and start going old school make believe to create their own version of entertainment. GET OFF YOUR DEVICES ERA
With the ceo pay checks being what they are the studios have no leg to stand on and now the actors have to deal with A.I.
I dnt like calling this hollywood DRAMA. I think it attaches a negative connotation like "drama queen". This is no drama, this is real people fighting for real lives and their very real life needs.
I had an experience with Motion Capture and voice acting and have to say even though gaming industry is a colossus these days, voice over actors and mo cap performers are not fully considered 'equal' talent as traditional actors. What's really interesting right now is that the mainstream, 'regular' actors demand royalties for their digital likeness when it's used on new projects they are not technically involved with. Something MoCap actors could relate to...I guess the movie studios figured that their 'creative accounting' and sometimes cruel contracts/ NDA's would go unnoticed into this new era of streaming. They were wrong, preparation is everything and they were completely ill prepared for this new platform of entertainment. PS. You almost saw me as Leon in the new Resident Evil games
Let's not compare motion capture to AI. I'm an animator and never worked with motion capture, but I know many animators that have. It requires a collaboration between artists and actors to work. AI will work on its own and replace both jobs. It needs to be regulated.
Ironically, Fran ran on the SAG slate that has opposed stronger bargaining with corporate Hollywood for decades, directly resulting in the current sad state of affairs for actors. Until very recently, Fran was part of the problem.
The GREED from the bigheads at the studios need to MAKE LESS money and PAY THE UNIONS WHAT THEY DESERVE!! I stand with the UNIONS!
The top ten actors make WAY more money than the top ten Hollywood CEOS - wise up. Theres no money for lower level actors because about ten actors and actresses get 95 % of it. Its America, winner take all - the rest get a few drops of trickle down. Its what Americans wanted because they though they were going to be winners too - wrong. In this country the 99% have been determined to give the 1 % everything. Now they are bitter.
They're doomed. AI spits out scripts in 10 minutes and CGI fills in the action and talent. Can't stop progress.
I will support the writers and actors! Because those corporations and studios has been greedy including CEOs
It’s tougher than ever to find good content. The entertainment industry has suffered too much the last couple years. I’m more worried about movies than cable TV
After seeing what the CEO’s make, I stand with the Actors.
Agree!!!
It makes no sense that these studios and ceos are this greedy none.
Unfortunately, to them, it makes perfect sense.
big picture... studios are spending way too much for things like The Rings of Power ! Movies like MISSION IMPOSSIBLE have enormously ridic budgets... spread it out so better movies like EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE get dibs
The question isn't "how could the writers and actors want more" (easy - wages these days barely pay the bills!), it's why do people like Bob Iger have massive bonuses written into their salary arrangements etc (500% bonus based on Disney stock? Excuse me????) What gives them the right? These obscenely rich people are having their "let them eat cake" moment and that's UNSUSTAINABLE.
If you fire the CEO the company will have a lot of money to spread around and no leadership to steer the boat... nobody wants that big of a responsibility to hold ... that's why pay incentives
I wish I knew the best way to support these strikers/unions. For now, I am cancelling my streaming subscriptions. Will be READING a lot more ... until the union folks prevail.
Trying to remember, did I stop listening to music when the music industry went thru a huge overhaul. Unfortunately, this pretty much guarantees higher costs for subscriptions which as a consumer makes logical sense. Crazy how Blockbuster used to only have a finite # of copies to watch something in a limited time. Or that TV shows used to have a specific time of day to watch that one ep and waiting time until the next one came out. Humanity in hindsight realizes what should be valued was taken for granted. Time is money folks~!
It's actually a misnomer to say actors and writers are striking against producers. Producers actually support the strike. The Producers Guild recently issued a letter of solidarity. The strike is against the studios and networks and even people at the studios don't want this. The creative execs want to be creative. The people behind this are the people at the very very very top of each studio or network. The number crunchers. The non creatives. Those making millions and millions of dollars a year, living off the creatives. It's a bit rich hearing a CEO making 27 million a year saying it's unrealistic for actors to want to make a living wage. I guess that kind of privilige numbs a person to the needs of people who are just trying to live.
Imagine.......
No more childhood dreams of marring your favorite Actor or Actress...... Because AI is exatly that.... Artificial, No such person.
No more crowds of people yelling and screaming for autographs.... Or book signings.... No more watching the Oscars because you cant get Artificial Actors or Actresses to get on stage.... And forget about the actual AI writer attending, unless you set up the computer on stage before hand.
No more Fan clubs, no more t-shirts or coffee cups, showing your favorite movie star.....
This whole AI sh$t sounds sooooo UNREAL!!!!!!
I find it crazy that the Black Mirror episode Joan Is Awful talks about this
Greedy CEOs. Pay them! Pay the writers and actors and everyone involved.
Writers and actors should just “learn how to code”
@@kaseyc5078That’s not funny, man 🫤
@@kaseyc5078 How about YOU should learn to code instead of watching RUclips videos all day.
I did learn how to code. I just wasn’t interested to take it on as a job. That’s how many actors feel. Sorry 😐
learn how to farm
The viewers should also support the writers by not watching such mediocre content and cancelling their subscriptions if need be. As a viewer, I don't want to just watch the events unfold while I make my popcorn at night. I fully want to backup the writers,actors, and all the people who are demanding their just rights!
The absolute gutter trash morals of the CEO's aka handlers of these artists is uncanny.
Talented people like writes , actors, singers, videographers, instrumentalist, photo editors and photographers like
myself have ALWAYS been on demand for generations yet are the LEAST paid though we are very much NEEDED in every industry.
I’m shocked how many elderly people in small town America say to me ‘people don’t want to work’. That’s rubbish. Rich fat cat corporate executives don’t want to pay a living wage. Wake up! America has changed.
I live in a big city and it's no different. Every supermarket is starved for help (which traditionally was a fall back job that anyone could get) and they refuse to hire full time, no bennies and $12 per hour. Then management wonders why people aren't lining up to apply. This is exactly why people don't want to work. It's not a job, it's just being taken advantage of.
corporate behavior from the studios and they're using the same argument as pols against raising the minimum wage to above surviveable. smh
Wow! this made me so emotional watching this especially as a Creative. You just want to simply follow your dreams AND be able to survive. How can something so simple come to all of this while the Networks are swimming in millions!? I stand with them. Prayers to everyone effected by this 😢
The AI issue will likely end up before the Supreme Court, where the decussion will be about 'Personhood'. This will present the Court with an in your face look at their own hypocrispy.
Producers and Streaming apps get sooo much money and only make 6 episodes per show like wth is that??! Give a show at least 16 episodes so writers can have a steadier job and we can have better shows. And theres no way AI can make great shows so forget it
and who told you that they are making so much money?
They used to call it a cartel when corporations got together to control labor across an industry.
This is not a essential industry
The great irony is that AI needs artists more than artists need AI. If you train AI continuously on AI generated content, it degrades and becomes rubbish. See Futurism’s article “AI Loses Its Mind After Being Trained on AI-Generates Data” and The Independent’s “Scientists warn of threat to Internet from AI-Trained AIs.” The original creators of the data that is used to train AI add the greatest value or, in economic jargon, provide the greatest value added. Yet Big Tech would like to pretend otherwise. So not only is this unethical, it’s shortsighted and could have disastrous consequences. It turns out doing the right thing (ensuring you get consent, giving credit where it’s due, and fairly compensating artists) would have also been the smart thing. AI companies need real visual artists, musicians, writers, actors, voice actors, etc. While most of us would be more than happy to go on without them. Furthermore, the majority of people do not want AI. It’s most fervent supporters are, predictably, the tech corporations ripping off artists and the public to take and profit from our data, which is all that makes AI valuable. The AI hype is just that-hype. It takes from the hard and excellent work of humans to generate lookalike or soundalike work. Nothing transformative about it.
True, as a common person who admire artists, I refuse to consume anything made by AI
We are drowning in entertainment. This is a great chance to take a break. There is plenty made years ago that you missed.
When every show costs $4.99/hour + tax + various nebulous charges, will anyone actually pay to watch AI written shows, starring AI generated actors?
🤔
Not as long as the those greedy CEOs are still in command 😠
They don't have to use AI. They can make shows in other countries.
@@jaredthomas4663 the boards control the CEOs... the CEOs are hired by the board
"Human made, human certified" will be a thing soon.
these GREEDY companies need to know UNTIL THEY DO THE RIGHT THING WE STAND WITH THE ACTORS
The double-stike will also have a major impact on the industry related businesses... retail, restaurants, etc., creating a domino effect in LA and NY, as it all shuts down.
Additionally, if it drags on for a period of time, the public could turn off the TV, causing major losses in network ad revenues! 🤔
Without an actor or a script how do the studios plan to create the next "Mission Impossible" or "Batman/Superman" Summer blockbuster sequel? With AI greenscreen wanbabees and regurgitated script?
🤮 🍿🥤
The studios can move on with making movies and shows with talent from other countries, or non-SAG talent.
@RajDeelish
That's true, maybe a Japanese Tom Cruise for the next "Mission Impossible," and hopefully NOBODY will notice?!
🤔🤣😂
@@christophermyers3758 Squid Games, All Quiet on the Western Front, Crouching Tiger, Life is Beautiful, etc.
@@RajDeelish thank you KDRAMAS
If anyone wants to help speed this process we can always cancel all our streaming subscriptions and when they ask why they want to cancel, we can tell them how we support the SAG and WGA. We can also tell them that we will only revise our subscription if the negotiate and come to terms with the actors and writers. I already shut off all my subs and I had so many. I am going to save almost $200 a month now lol.
OMG Please Stop This Actors Writers Strike Give Them The Right Amount Deal Payment So Everyone Can Go Back Work On There Projects !
Yeah!
What happened to the music industry years ago is finally catching up to TV and movies. So sad
yep. a band was replaced on stage by a guy with a laptop
0:47 Is that the XXI lobby in Gandaria City?
Why not mention what deal Reagan negotiated regarding the residuals in 1960? Past is prologue.
This is normal.. 60’s considering the time change in the movie world … motion pictures are now on tv repeating and launch without residual .. 80’s tv movies into DVD and syndicated sitcoms without residuals which was established after a strike and now live streaming without a contract. Keep going with the repeating protest for this new generation and time!!
all the problems we have in this country, homeless , hungry etc and these people want more money
This is a tense time in the entertainment industry and it feels long overdue. I can’t believe that these studios are so unwilling to give these creative people the proper compensation for their work. Not to mention that AI is not the answer for the industry. The root of this issue is greed. There is no such thing as enough for these Hollywood executives, and sadly, it’s the people who truly make this industry flow that are struggling. May we see that greed is no way to live life.
We’re going to have to smash the machine.
What about others who aren’t making a fair wage! Those actors and writers make bank. Teachers to name many who have been receiving low pay forever and nobody cares!
That's why unions are needed in every industry. All the labourers deserve fair payment and treatment. And this strike being so public certainly sends a message out there to workers who may also want to fight for better working conditions and not let corporate greed be tolerated. You are wrong about actors and writers making bank. Over 90% do not make a living wage. The ones you see in the tabloids are the 1% percent, nor representing many thousands of artists working several jobs simultaneously to survive.
myth: most actors & writers don't make bank. only 1% (famous ones) of that working force does. background actors, employeed writers, fill-ins, often get very little cuts of a show. prior to streaming, the cut was good enough to live off. Now with streaming, they do not get residual income for reruns either. They are seeing drastic decreases to their pay because the current contract doesn't cover streaming residuals. (only covers TV)
The rest of writers & actors are middle to low income workers. Yes, we all agree, Teachers also deserve better. EVERYONE deserve better. Wage stagnation is happening in every industry. Everyone SHOULD be striking. SAG & WGA are just bringing the issue to the forefront because they know they have the influence and power to do so. Dont come blaming the folks who is trying to help the rest of the working class.
@@ApricusInarosgo to a communist country if you wanna bich about not getting fair pay
Can someone state some numbers here? Share some salary numbers of what we're actually talking about here?
Do they think we give a hoot about their strike !? They get paid millions while we are working real jobs..we can't afford to go on strike..get a life!!!
Well to be honest only the top actors get paid millions.
It’s kinda scary how much AI will improve through the coming years.
The writers on those shows are friends. Now the wealthy friends have to pay for the working friends salaries. Producers have friends of their own that write just as well.
i was not born the last time this happened
I’m backing the writers and actors they need to make a living like everybody else
Consumers love to binge watch their favorite shows, so yes studios should share their wealth.
Says the woman who lives on the beach in Malibu…Fran Drescher
Time for new career then. They can go independent and make money that way. Or go back to school and obtain a new career. Or they can just move to another state where it's much cheaper. That's what normal people do. All industries are corrupt and only want money. It's America people, we are the most capitalistic and competitive country in the World. I don't know why this has come as a shock to so many people.
if only the strike would've happened before the final season of Game of Thrones.
NO Ai
Greed has gotten so out of control in this world. Millionaire now want to be Billionaires and Billionaires are racing to see who becomes the first Trillionaire. Crazy.
Truth!!!!
Well, we as viewers can help with demanding contents that are derivative products of AI to be labeled as such, and we consumers have to right to be aware of that and choose to not consume such content. I think it will add to the pressure.
I work in the industry it’s messed up. #unionstrong
creatives have a passion and humanity sure knows how to exploit passion
Now you guys are feeling what others have been. And are going through you are being canceled as others are what are you going to do with your Mansions , cars, jewelry, and all your other material objects that you have?
It's a real shame the wga didn't consider the dire effects of streaming during the last negotiation. Like, isn't that their literal job?
Time to rewatch GoT, see how I feel years later.
1:28 Fran Drescher. Oh my god. The two words I can't stand.
I feel like I'm the last person on Earth to know that the nanny is the president of sag
Don't feel bad. It's such an insignificant fact that no one really knew either, nor does it matter.
@@mikeywestside8509 Speak for yourself, sunshine. Drescher is the head of my union and a fellow alum of my alma mater. So I care.
@@mikeywestside8509 You'll be happy to know she once dated one of your fellow anti-vaxxer election deniers.
That makes 2 people who care.
This strike will be over by next week.
Or maybe never; I don't care either.
Who knew Fran Drescher could effectively convey drama?
I stand with you! F**k the ceo's! 😊
Wow! This wasn’t a one sided story! 😂
I canceled all my steaming
There will be no more instruments of any kind
No more Craftsman of any kind
No more bridesmaid and groomsmen
The children of the Kingdom will be cast out into outer blackness
"The shows are going to be bad" the shows are bad right now, and unoriginal. I hope this strike fixes that.
The greed is on both sides.
Well on the plus side it won't effect "Hill Street Blues"
The 2023 Writers Guild of America strike is the largest interruption to American television and film production since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, as well as the largest labor stoppage the WGA has performed since the last strike in 2007-08. Since July 14, 2023, it has coincided with a SAG-AFTRA strike as part of a broader Hollywood labor dispute. The hardest thing to change are people's minds. On July 12, 2023, Deadline Hollywood reported that the AMPTP and the major Hollywood studios did not plan to return to negotiations with the WGA until late October 2023 at the earliest. The studio executives who anonymously spoke with Deadline stated that by October, many writers would be financially strained, which they believed would allow them to be in a better position to dictate the terms of any new deal. Representatives for the AMPTP distanced themselves from the anonymous sources, claiming they remained committed to signing a deal as soon as possible.
Thank and many blessings I sold my stock before it plummeted.....
Feel like most actors live better than doctors nurses etc. so idk what they’re fighting for if they already get paid good
Funny construction workers dont get residuals
Or doctors or many other jobs ?😂
Everyone strike, except the servers and delivery drivers. PROBLEM SOLVED!!!
I'm on your side Writers side! DAMN CEOs! As a consumer, you CEOs you are affecting consumers as well! I canceled my Netflix subscription! And I streamed on Netflix everyday! And I heard Eisnor Disney CEO. Well Disney is hurting! Hardly anyone is going to Disneyland! It is NOT the happiest place on earth! It's not fun there anymore anyway! Too many conditions on rides and restaurants! Anyway, THE WRITERS STAND YOUR GROUND!
Why do you think netflix only cost 7 $ a month. It happens to everyone tech, truck driver, oil and gas work. Nowadays you have to find job where dont have to re-invent yourself and its tuff.
Does this mean we might go a whole year without seeing some beloved piece of creativity from our past brought to the present, then brutally beaten and murdered in front of us?
I hope they get their money!