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Post by The Heartbreak TWERK on Sept 18, 2023 17:09:34 GMT -5
All the top earners in the guilds should tell the CEOs, "We're going to fund both strikes until you pay, so pay or it'll be decades before we move forward."
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Post by ace on Sept 18, 2023 19:08:26 GMT -5
Sherri Shepard's show is still going but then Sherri says she's the sole writer in the show and was never a WGA member. So I'm guessing she's fine. She’s not in the WGA and doesn’t have a writing staff that is either. Running the show doesn’t take any work that should be a union job and put a scab worker in their place. She is a member of SAG and has supported the strike(s)…but she’s not doing anything wrong by doing the show. If she had a WGA writer on the payroll and did the show…that would be bad. Which is what the people who have backed down from returning would have been doing. |
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Sept 19, 2023 12:20:43 GMT -5
$60bn over 10 years? That’s interesting. Especially considering one of the reasons they couldn’t pay their fair share to writers and actors is because they lacked the funds, suddenly this amount was found for the Theme Parks.
Very horseshit interesting indeed.
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Post by thechase on Sept 20, 2023 5:34:06 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Sept 20, 2023 8:59:49 GMT -5
$60bn over 10 years? That’s interesting. Especially considering one of the reasons they couldn’t pay their fair share to writers and actors is because they lacked the funds, suddenly this amount was found for the Theme Parks. Very horseshit interesting indeed. Don’t confuse the parent company for the production subsidiary. While the studio isn’t destitute, the parent company electing to invest in the product that is more reliably profitable can negatively impact their budget. |
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Sept 20, 2023 9:05:53 GMT -5
$60bn over 10 years? That’s interesting. Especially considering one of the reasons they couldn’t pay their fair share to writers and actors is because they lacked the funds, suddenly this amount was found for the Theme Parks. Very horseshit interesting indeed. Don’t confuse the parent company for the production subsidiary. While the studio isn’t destitute, the parent company electing to invest in the product that is more reliably profitable can negatively impact their budget. And I get that because these companies have different companies doing different thing. It’s more just having that come off when companies are gladly admitting to losing money on the thing that contributes towards the parks and the rest of the businesses all because that small percentage of money that won’t matter in the long run is apparently not there. And, well, the shares also sunk briefly because of it but shares are about as good at judging the long term scope of success as a chocolate kettle would be at holding hot water for longer than 5 minutes. |
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Post by Renslayer on Sept 20, 2023 10:46:37 GMT -5
I hope the actors x writers are able to end or at least modify those first position rules. It gives shitty directors too much power
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Sept 20, 2023 13:10:32 GMT -5
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Sept 20, 2023 13:28:25 GMT -5
Outside of all this seeming like the biggest waste of money, which considering WB in the 21st Century says a lot, what's the scope of these things? Do they determine what month they should be released in or what month their rivals are releasing in? Because if Paramount had this and it told them to not release Mission Impossible closer to the summer instead of two weeks before Barbieheimer then they should have scrapped the thing ASAP.
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Post by Kalmia on Sept 20, 2023 13:51:38 GMT -5
As soon as that AI spat out $1.6b for Mission Impossible, they should have known it was nonsense. That's twice what Fallout did (the previously highest grossing MI movie) and would put it in the top 8 movies of all time. Sure, Top Gun did $1.4b last year but the odds were always against MI doing that this year, especially after losing IMAX so early.
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Post by The Captain on Sept 20, 2023 13:55:06 GMT -5
If the AI is this bad at doing relatively mundane and analytical things like projecting revenue, imagine how much worse it would be at actual creative pursuits like writing and acting.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Sept 20, 2023 16:09:29 GMT -5
...they really are going to do an interpretive dance routine, aren't they?
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Sept 20, 2023 16:53:28 GMT -5
...they really are going to do an interpretive dance routine, aren't they? Bold to send the Legion of Doom to get this done. |
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Sept 20, 2023 16:55:53 GMT -5
...they really are going to do an interpretive dance routine, aren't they? Bold to send the Legion of Doom to get this done. The real problem is whose Lex Luthor because a) none of them are bald and b) three of them have literally the same haircut. |
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Post by Renslayer on Sept 20, 2023 21:12:17 GMT -5
We'll see
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Sept 20, 2023 21:17:16 GMT -5
That reads like more AMPTP spin to me. Kind of an, "If you don't take this now we're not talking to you again for awhile," bit of putting pressure on them.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2023 21:22:07 GMT -5
Waiting on Liz Alps to basically call BS on that.
But then again this is not coming from the usual suspects of the trades so...maybe
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Sept 20, 2023 21:46:26 GMT -5
Bold to send the Legion of Doom to get this done. The real problem is whose Lex Luthor because a) none of them are bald and b) three of them have literally the same haircut. If Solomon Grundy was part of the negotiations, this would all be finished. |
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Post by Savage Gambino on Sept 20, 2023 22:01:55 GMT -5
More so than television, or even movies, Warner Bros Discovery has become a company that excels at making poor choices. |
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Sept 21, 2023 1:17:39 GMT -5
That reads like more AMPTP spin to me. Kind of an, "If you don't take this now we're not talking to you again for awhile," bit of putting pressure on them. That’s where I am with it. These are the sort of things that shouldn’t be out there as readily to sources (and they should know that considering people below the execs sign NDAs all the time for projects) so it really feels like a scare tactic and a way to turn people against the WGA if it doesn’t go well instead of it being a bad deal for them. |
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