EXCLUSIVE, updated with AMPTP statement: Regardless of whether SAG-AFTRA goes on strike this week, the studios have no intention of sitting down with the Writers Guild for several more months. “I t…

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    Saying the quiet part out loud:

    “The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,” a studio executive told Deadline.

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    This is why you pay your union dues, to prevent this sort of action from happening.

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    And this is why union busting has been a priority over the last 50 years. If everything supplying a studio came through unionized shops, the studios wouldn’t get shit die to not crossing picket lines and would be stuck.

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    Can someone explain why SAG-AFTRA is on strike? is is just solidarity with writers? I have a hard time giving a shit about actors not making enough money when there are people way worse off.

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      Because studios have suddenly become veryt reticent about guaranteeing actor’s control of their own likeness with regard to AI perfornances, for one thing.

      I have a hard time giving a shit about actors not making enough money when there are people way worse off.

      I love the idea that you think that the majority of actors are hugely well-paid. Most are struggling. The fact that you see stars going out on strike is about - yes their own contracts- but also to protect the rights of the thousands of actors who work in in supporting roles etc.

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        Supply and demand. Everyone wants to be an actor, doesn’t mean everyone gets to be one. Absolutely an oversupply in that industry. Same with tons of other industries, so cry me a river.

        I looked at pay, it’s actually very good across the board. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66196357

        The AI thing is interesting, but I thought that was tertiary to these other points.