The Hollywood actors’ union announced the start of a strike this Thursday evening after negotiations with major American studios collapsed.
Hollywood actors officially went on strike this Thursday night after negotiations between major American studios and the powerful actors’ union failed, their union announced.
“The National Council of SAG-AFTRA voted unanimously to order studios and broadcasters to strike,” announced Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the national executive director of this union, which represents 160,000 actors and other professionals from the big and small screen.
coming paralysis
This decision is likely to completely paralyze Hollywood, where the production of films and series is already slowing down due to the social movement of screenwriters.
The two trades are demanding an increase in their remuneration, half-mast in the streaming age. They also want guarantees about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to prevent them from generating scripts or cloning their voice and image.
This dual social movement, bringing together the faces and feathers of the film industry, has been a Hollywood first since the 1960s.
The actors’ strike is a blow to studio and streaming platform bosses.
Since May, the only productions that have decided to shoot have been based on the scripts already completed in the spring, without being able to modify them. This is especially true of the Amazon-funded The Lord of the Rings prequel The Rings of Power. But without actors, filming will simply no longer be possible.
Only a few “talk shows” and reality TV programs will be able to continue.
Actors also have the power to freeze the ads for blockbusters expected in theaters this summer, such as “Oppenheimer” or “Gran Turismo.” And without her presence on the red carpets, the industry risks having to postpone the Emmys, which correspond to the televised Oscars scheduled for September 18.