The Film and TV Industries

Animators who worked on Across The Spider-Verse discuss the harsh working conditions behind the film's success.

[MOD EDIT: Don't post the whole article here. A small blurb is fine.]

Edited by Berrenta on Jun 24th 2023 at 10:27:08 AM

And the editor of the movie confirmed there are two different versions of the film.

This means they did a whole bunch more work than was necessary.

https://www.lamag.com/article/film-production-zero-permits-writers-strike-wga/

All major Film/TV productions in Los Angeles have shut down.

It's also noted that the actors will likely strike by the end of the month, too.

Last writer’s strike in 2008 took a hundred days, so companies conceding that early feels like a Trojan.

This time, it feels like an inminent trifecta. And who knows who else would strike if given the chance. Hollywood is about to freeze if they don't get their heads out of their asses fast.

The Director's Guild won't strike as they got everything they wanted, however what they wanted is also things the SAG wants so they're more emboldened to keep striking.

IIRC the Directors have a deal but the Union hasn't officially accepted it yet? So in theory there is a nice deal on the table they could accept but they might be waiting to see what happens with the Writers and the Actors. Especially important since many directors are ALSO writers.

Under the rules you can't strike if offered a deal you'd accept, that's negotiating in bad faith.

Have them confirmed that they’d accept it? They’d presumably need to ballot for that.

The DGA has already voted and ratified on the new contract with the AMPTP, with 87% voting in favor.

A fire broke out at the Warner Bros studio lot in Burbank. It appears to be contained at the moment. No word yet on what caused it, or if there are any injuries.

At least with the upcoming strike, any necessary repairs to the place can be done without them hindering any productions.

SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP have agreed to an extension to the contract negotiations, extending them until July 12th. SAG's contract was supposed to expire midnight Saturday, but agreed to an extension as they continue to try and get a good deal for their members.

An article by insider on how studios are reliant on influencers.

So, when do you think that the Writers Strike might end?

When the studios buckle. These things are extremely hard to predict.

Took 100 days in the strike of 2008 and that disrupted so conceding it now seems like a trap. I feel like the difference is companies believe they have an arsenal to replace writers with and will only be beat when they realize, “Shit, we actual need writers”

Or if the actors hammer through the "no AI production" thing on their end.

Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement

This could potentially be very big if it goes through.

So it sounds like they’re bringing in Federal Mediators to prevent the SAG strike.

Doubt it will work, dealing with the strike is the job of the movie studios. Federal Government aren't going to get involved.

I heard the studios were spooked because they were planning to outsource international to get around strikes and suddenly that's off the table.

Oh why is it off the table?

Federal mediators aren’t actually an oddity in this case; one such mediator was brought in during the weeks leading up to the 2007 writers’ strike, though that one very clearly failed, so it’s not a given that an accord’s going to be reached even if they bring in a third-party into this.

I'm going to note that part of the reason the studios really don't seem to like the idea of bringing in a federal mediator and are really slow to pull that particular trigger is because when you contrast the demands, the studios come out looking really bad.

That's the fun bit about dealing with a federal mediator. You have to lay out your logic for your position to an uninvolved third party. WGA and SAG-AFTRA can do that easily. "We want to be able to make a living doing a job we love." The studios are going to be stuck having to explain why their record-breaking profits mean they can't afford to pay the people necessary for their profits to exist enough money to live on.

That was what backfired with the mediator in 2007, because the studios couldn't argue why "we want enough to live" and "we make too much money to afford paying people" weren't a good argument to allow them to pay people in table scraps. And, no matter what the hollywood accounting is like, the studio argument exists in a context that boils it down to "we make too much money to pay people".

Edited by Zendervai on Jul 11th 2023 at 9:24:01 AM