SAG-AFTRA President and star of the defunct series The Nanny, Fran Drescher with Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, SAG-AFTRA National Managing Director (Portal / Mike Blake)
Pickets, postponed series and films, and even Hollywood stars canceling premieres: the Screen Actors Guild of America strike (SAG-AFTRA) is already wreaking havoc in an industry that could suffer billions of dollars in losses.
The distancing between the collective of interpreters and the Alliance of Film and Television Producers (AMPTP) following the signing of a new collective agreement binding them for the next three years has become an ingrained conflict of interest whose resolution is unknown for experts in the entertainment sector.
The first day of this strike, the first in 63 years to be conducted concurrently with the Writers Union (WGA), took place this Friday outside the offices of major Disney conglomerates or streaming giants like Netflix or HBO.
“Los Angeles is a union city. “We are workers united and we will fight together and in solidarity with our WGA colleagues,” repeated the President of SAG-AFTRA and star of the defunct series The Nanny: Fran Drescherin front of about a thousand demonstrators.
After four weeks of negotiations including a further extension, SAG-AFTRA was unable to agree to a new contract that would meet their demands for a regulated model for Hollywood’s use of artificial intelligence (AI) and significantly increase their remaining rights to the universal minimum wage increase by 11 percent.
The first day of this strike, the first to be conducted concurrently with the Writers Union (WGA) in 63 years, took place this Friday outside the offices of major Disney conglomerates or streaming giants like Netflix or HBO (Portal/Mike). Blakes)
However, AMPTP announced on Thursday that it had presented an “innovative proposal” to curb AI, that it had presented a “historic” increase in residual royalties, and that it had proposed a 58 percent increase in minimum royalties for leading actors.
A reflective version contrast the crossroads where the American audiovisual sector finds itself where the first titles of series and films have already been postponed or put on hold.
More than twenty series and films have announced in the last few hours that they will interrupt their production phase and, at best, adapt their shooting to the circumstances.
Formats so celebrated by viewers such as Stranger Things, Abbott Elementary or Severance have already been paralyzed. Some projects are still going on before departure, as in the case of Special Ops: Lioness, the intrigue series starring Nicole Kidman, Zoe Saldaña and Morgan Freeman.
A context that also extends to the big screen, where much-anticipated films like Gladiator 2 have had to halt production; the continuation of bug juiceled by Jenna Ortega and Michael Keaton, put filming on hold; and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 2 is temporarily unable to resume production.
Now all eyes are on us Barbie And Oppenheimer, two of the season’s big heavyweights due for release next Friday and whose promotional events could be affected.
The Actors Union itself said this Thursday that its members had done so It is forbidden to participate in promotional tours, give interviews, intervene in conventions (such as Comic-Con 2023), exhibitions or festivals, and even waste oneself in formats such as podcasts.
Chief Negotiator and President of the National Executive of SAG-AFTRA, Duncan Crabtree – Irelandassured in statements to the news agency EFE that this is the intention of the institution “All productions that have already been completed can finish their promotional work.”
Director Christopher Nolan, producer Emma Thomas, Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh and Matt Damon pose at the photocall for the film ‘Oppenheimer’ on Wednesday July 12, 2023 in London. Matt Damon and Emily Blunt will leave Oppenheimer’s media presentation in London on Thursday (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)
The uncertain panorama that currently prevails has caused numbers like Matt Damon or Emily Blunt will leave Thursday’s presentation to the media Oppenheimer in London.
The next film awards season previously expected to be very attractive with the proceeds of Ridley Scott, Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson or Christopher Nolan, could be jeopardized if the strike lasts longer.
The deadline for titles to enter the 96th edition of the Oscars is November, and that’s the timeline filmmakers are currently skeptical about.
In the TV sector, everything indicates that the 75th edition of the Emmys, which is still planned for September 18th, has to be postponed to at least November, according to experts.
Entrepreneurs and audiovisual professionals in the US, academics and the trade press are now trying to speculate how long this 63-year simultaneous actors’ and screenwriters’ strike will last. lasted three months.
(With information from EFE)
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