{"id":17867,"date":"2023-07-17T16:11:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T20:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=17867"},"modified":"2023-07-17T16:11:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T20:11:25","slug":"studios-vs-sag-aftra-wga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=17867","title":{"rendered":"Studios Vs. SAG-AFTRA &#038; WGA"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>For the first time since 1960, the Screen Actors Guild has declared itself in solidarity with the screenwriters who have been on strike against Hollywood studios since May. The twin walkouts have crippled production of most film and television projects and show no signs of early resolution.<br \/><br \/>Principals on both sides of the picket line have been ramping up the rhetoric, predicting catastrophic results if the issues are not resolved soon.<br \/><br \/>Barry Diller, the former CEO of Paramount and 20th Century Fox, warned that the industry could face an \u201cabsolute collapse\u201d if the strike continues through the fall. He told an interviewer on CBS\u2019s<em> Face the Nation<\/em> yesterday: \u201cWhat will happen is, if in fact, it doesn\u2019t get settled until Christmas or so, then next year, there\u2019s not going to be many programs for anybody to watch. So, you\u2019re gonna see subscriptions get pulled, which is going to reduce the revenue of all these movie companies, television companies, the result of which is that there will be no programs \u2026 And at just the time, [the] strike is settled that you want to get back up, there won\u2019t be enough money.\u201d<br \/><br \/>Diller added: \u201cIt sounds like I\u2019m crying to the skies but these conditions will potentially produce an absolute collapse of an entire industry.\u201d<br \/><br \/>Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney, also railed against the strikers, claiming that the expectations of actors and screenwriters were \u201cnot realistic.\u201d<br \/><br \/>On the other side, actor John Cusack roundly criticized the studios\u2019 greed in a Twitter posting. He said he received no cut of the box-office gross for his starring role in the 1989 film <em><strong>Say Anything<\/strong><\/em>. \u201cThe greed is almost a legendary comic trope,\u201d he tweeted. \u201cOne fun fact \u2013 when I was a youngin- I did a film (with a boom box) and somehow I got points \u2013 net not gross. Never expected to see any money \u2013 but the film became quite famous \u2013 so about 10 years ago \u2013 I looked again at the financial statements they were obligated to report \u2013 and to my shock \u2013 they claimed they had LOST 44 million dollars on the film.\u201d <br \/><br \/>Cusack complained that the studios, if left unchecked, would eliminate acting jobs by using artificial intelligence technology, a key point the union is trying to make. He wrote that the studios are running a \u201ccriminal enterprise\u201d in its use of AI. As he continued, \u201cStudios wanna have extras work one day, scan them \u2013 own their likeness forever \u2013 and eliminate them from the business. \u2026 Do you think they will stop with extras? That\u2019s what AI is \u2013 a giant copyright identity theft.\u201d<br \/><br \/>And Mark Ruffalo, who starred in <em><strong>13 Going on 30<\/strong><\/em>, also directed his ire against Hollywood \u201cfat cats\u201d who believe actors are no longer of value.<br \/><br \/>The actors were echoing the comments of SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher, who had earlier declared: \u201cWe are the victims here. We are being victimized by a very greedy entity. &#8230; I cannot believe it, quite frankly: How far apart we are on so many things. How [the studios] plead poverty, that they\u2019re losing money left and right when giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEOs. It is disgusting. Shame on them.\u201d <br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/edward-moran\/\">Check out more of Edward&#8217;s articles.<\/a><br \/><br \/><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since 1960, the Screen Actors Guild has declared itself in solidarity with the screenwriters who have been on strike against Hollywood studios since May. The twin walkouts have crippled production of most film and television projects and show no signs of early resolution. Principals on both sides of the picket line&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[16961,16963,12812,13552,16962,1048,3036,15306],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Studios Vs. 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