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2023-07-14 -Great Cultural Revolution

Hollywood actors go on strike, say it's time for studio execs to 'wake up'

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Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-07-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [18 views ] Top

#1 Sadly, I have already noticed a decline in 'A-grade' movie and TV content. But I watch a lot.

'Oppenheimer' director Christopher Nolan says AI in film carries ‘responsibilities’ like atomic bomb creation

Come on AI!

Posted by Skidmark 2023-07-14 04:53|| 2023-07-14 04:53|| Front Page Top

#2 SAG union president Fran Drescher says she fears striking actors could be replaced by ROBOTS, with A-Lister filled picket lines set to become Hollywood's newest visitor attraction

Posted by Skidmark 2023-07-14 06:12|| 2023-07-14 06:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Given the movie industry, TV, and too many fading career actors doing Mega Far Left S%^T, for attention.

I hope they do strike and bankrupt every Far Left production company and actor.

Posted by NN2N1 2023-07-14 06:20|| 2023-07-14 06:20|| Front Page Top

#4 ...It appears that AMPTP is really not messing around - their attitude seems to be that if they simply wait everybody out until the end of October, they'll be offering to pay AMPTP to work instead of the other way 'round.

And with that, my feeling (YMMV, of course) is that the writers may have some real and realistic concerns here. Fully AI'd movies are a ways off yet, but I'm pretty sure I'll live to see them. They gotta make the demands now to insure that they get paid in the future.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2023-07-14 06:51|| 2023-07-14 06:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Harvey Weinstein could not be reached for comment.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-07-14 06:55|| 2023-07-14 06:55|| Front Page Top

#6 She gathered with other Filipinx actors outside of Warner Brothers

Filipinx? Someone needs to go away

Posted by Frank G 2023-07-14 07:00|| 2023-07-14 07:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Union president Fran Drescher, "The Nanny"!

How serious and successful could this strike possibly be with her at the helm?

I still hear those grating, nasal tones.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-07-14 07:10|| 2023-07-14 07:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Good time to strike during an economic down turn and decreasing demand for your crappy products.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-07-14 07:50|| 2023-07-14 07:50|| Front Page Top

#9 I recommend they form an alliance with Disney and just blockade all their entertainment venues from the American consumer.

That'll teach us a lesson.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-07-14 07:52|| 2023-07-14 07:52|| Front Page Top

#10 This reminds me of the time the Buggy Whip Makers union went on strike. Buggy whips were essential to the transportation industry and they wanted more money. They felt the had the whip hand, so to speak, since that "horseless carriage" thing was years away from being practical.

Posted by SteveS 2023-07-14 10:03|| 2023-07-14 10:03|| Front Page Top

#11 Company: "Do you want some or none?"

Union: "We want more."

Company: "None it is..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-14 10:09|| 2023-07-14 10:09|| Front Page Top

#12 Studio execs are already Woke.

Robots? You think Robots? Shit man, you've already lost.

SAG-AFTRA has put us on a course that will deepen the financial hardship for thousands who depend on the industry for their livelihoods."

Learn to Coal.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-07-14 11:03|| 2023-07-14 11:03|| Front Page Top

#13 I'm reading a fantasy novel about a troupe of actors, jugglers, magicians and musicians who travel around the countryside in horse drawn wagons putting on shows for a ha'penny a head. No world famous celebrities, no Beverly Hills mansions, no limousines or red carpets, no People magazine or National Inquirer. Just a group of talented people dedicated to their craft and struggling to make a living at it.

You can only get paid what people are willing to pay. Strike if you must and we'll see what happens.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-07-14 12:24|| 2023-07-14 12:24|| Front Page Top

#14 I don't think you people understand. None of you are actually necessary.
Your jobs only exist so that someone else can make money.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-07-14 13:01|| 2023-07-14 13:01|| Front Page Top

#15 Big reboot. New season, The Nanny,
Now cannier, even more Franny:
"He squeaks as he cleans!
He's the nanny from Queens!"
"He?"
"Uh, she."
"Our new nanny's a tranny?"

Always figured Drescher for a genius... not that I've ever been able to watch more than the odd minute or two of her without feeling like a complete idiot.

Posted by Uleatch Poodle8531 2023-07-14 13:40|| 2023-07-14 13:40|| Front Page Top

#16 Oops... can nannies clean? Call the union!

Posted by Uleatch Poodle8531 2023-07-14 13:42|| 2023-07-14 13:42|| Front Page Top

#17 Was a time in human history that travelling minstrels were looked on and treated with contempt by the villagers. What's old is new.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-07-14 15:26|| 2023-07-14 15:26|| Front Page Top

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