#sag wga strike

[gay-jewish-bucky]

[mysharona1987]

[icannotholdmypen]

The SAG-AFTRA Strike is over and full of wins for the workers!!!

via the @sagaftra page on twitter

[toonskribblez]

[ghostflowerhotpotch]

(With a cocktel motolov in hand) So I guess we are in agreement to go to some Execs houses right?

For legal reasons, this is a joke. No, seriously, I am not endorsing violence. (I'm an immigrant and I will NOT risk going back to my home country.)

In a way, this felt inevitable; not only with the news that nothing of the second movie has been done, but also as someone who read the article of what was going on in the process of this movie, there was no way in hell it would be finished only with the writing process Miller does.

I know the reasons they are saying this is the strike, which is plausible; yet I think is almost a convenient excuse.

What are my thoughts on this? That I hope the animators can also enter the strike too.

Look, I love this movie, I think is pretty obvious how much I had written about it; but none of this is fair. Lord and Miller I believe are doing well financially, but a strike wouldn't be strong without some big names on the list, and I am obviously against scabbing.

No idea how much the actors are being paid, but knowing what we know now, I have my doubts about a lot of them. I hope the animators can join because as much as I love this movie, I would rather have it be less beautiful and impressive if it meant the animators didn't need to push 70 FUCKING HOURS A WEEK.

No piece of media is more important than the lives of real people; I am with the strike.

If these motherfuckers (aka the executives who are eviler than any villain shown in these movies at this point,) think I can't wait for a movie, watch me. I am someone with AUAdhd who hyperfixates on things to an absurd degree; I can survive off fandom and my own content for years if I need to. And there is plenty of older media to watch.

Let. The. Companies. Suffer.

[magical-awesome-kid]

Lol

@narnia-and-the-north @random-fandom-reblog-blog

[jasoncanty01]

The cost to settle IS Pennies to the production companies.

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Barry Caldwell

I'm on fire tonight.

I don't have the data yet to do this for SAG, however, the point can be made just using WGA data.

This is the cost for the studios to settle the strike, and since each company has different numbers, I break it down for you.

Netflix. Cost to settle: $68 million. Annual revenue: $31.6 billion. Cost % of Revenues: 0.215%

Paramount. Cost to settle: $45 million. Annual revenue: $30.2 billion. Cost % of Revenues: 0.149%

Warner Brothers. Cost to settle: $47 million. Annual revenue: $43.1 billion. Cost % of Revenues: 0.109%

Disney. Cost to settle: $75 million. Annual revenue: $82.7 billion. Cost % of Revenues: 0.091%

Universal. Cost to settle: $34 million. Annual revenue: $121.4 billion. Cost % of Revenues: 0.028%

Sony. Cost to settle: $25 million. Annual revenue: $88.8 billion. Cost % of Revenues: 0.028%

Amazon. Cost to settle: $32 million. Annual revenue: $514 billion. Cost % of Revenues: 0.006%

Apple. Cost to settle: $17 million. Annual revenue: $394.3 billion. Cost % of Revenues: 0.004%

TOTAL: Cost to settle: $343 million. Annual revenue: $1.31 trillion. Cost % of Revenues: 0.026%

By way of comparison, median income in the US is $70,784. Your mileage may vary but in LA the average cost of a gardener is $65 a month. If your gardener asked for a raise equal to the above, he's asking for an extra $1.53 per month. If he's doing an amazing job that increases the value of your home, and you can't afford $1.53, you need to go to church.

[bakastandotsukai]

I might just be cynical but it just feels so off-putting to me seeing the Walt Disney Company celebrate their 100th anniversary after all the shit they've pulled from undermining animation in favor of live-action, the way they handled the SAG-WGA strike, monopolizing IPs, tokenizing under the guise of "social justice" (then backing out when it risks box office numbers), etc.

[alondisstorm]

so since I'm still confused:

Is writing fanfiction for struck media okay or not?

[gusthegremlin]

The Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA)A is going on strike after negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) failed. This is the first time in 63 years that both the SAG and WGA (Writers Guild of America) are on strike at the same time.

As I said in this post, this is the time to support small authors, artists, and productions. Dive into indie films and small businesses. Tell your friends. Tell your family. Tell a stranger.

Do NOT continue to support these corporations by consuming their media. Do NOT continue to support these companies that would sooner replace their human employees with AI than lose a tiny profit. Do NOT believe them when they say they "tried their best to negotiate."

This strike and the others like it (the ongoing WGA strike, the brewing UPS strike, other strikes that are likely coming, considering the state of the US workforce) are not something unions or workers take lightly because they pose a risk to jobs and livelihoods. They don't strike on a whim.

The AMPTP had 4 weeks, plus 12 extra days, to negotiate. They could either give in or give a fair offer. As they've done neither, the SAG will join the WGA in a walkout strike tomorrow (June 14, 2023).

Support the workers. Support the unions. Support the strikes.

[gay-jewish-bucky]

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[amagnificentobsession]

Let’s throw it up against the wall and see if it sticks! 🤞

[sweetiesshortstories]

I read an article earlier from the perspective of a writer that wrote one episode of Suits. Yes. ONE episode.

I have sympathy for the Suits writer even though I didn’t like the show and couldn’t even get into the first few episodes which arguably should be the best episodes of a show. Writing one episode for a show is stupid and I honestly don’t know who would accept that. Furthermore, how on earth did you sign anything that would allow your compensation to be under $300 for a show with billions of streams? But I digress, the contracts aren’t why I’m writing this.

I’m writing this because writers for decades have devalued writing by accepting crumbs. They’ve forced every writer after them to take on a fight they didn’t know was happening. Instead of standing for consistency and stability and demanding that for their employment and for the viewers, they leapt at the “exposure instead of money” pipe dream and now want everyone to rally around them for support since that hasn’t paid off.

As a writer myself, I say every writer deserves fair compensation. But as a human with basic logic, Hollywood writers made their bed themselves and are asking everyone else to fix it and lay in it with them, and I won’t.

Yeah, their royalty checks are low but on the low end those writers are making $200k a year. 70% of Americans are making way under that amount. Today there are real wages that add up to $26k a year. In the US, the cost to live COMFORTABLY is a salary of $60k-$75k. Not luxuriously, just comfortably.

Over HALF of our population is making less than the SAG AFTRA & WGA strikers.

Until fast food workers, janitors, teachers, gas station attendants, all make a livable wage, i will not waste my energy on anyone in Hollywood.

No one will get a fair wage as long as our lowest paid workers can’t afford the cost of living.

Let’s not forget the extreme amount of privilege it takes to be able to say “I’m not going to work indefinitely until this is fixed”. For most Americans, that’s a ticket to becoming houseless, or without a home.

[frowny-clowny]

I’m conflicted on one hand I want to buy a Barbie ticket watch Barbie then sneak into Oppenheimer, but on the other hand I want to show solidarity with the writers-actors strike rn

Girl help what do

[antipop2097]

Never forget, this is the same asshat who ruined Twin Peaks in the early 90s by forcing David Lynch and Mark Frost to reveal Laura Palmer's killer mid season 2.

30 years later and the twat is STILL ruining the work of far better people, in the name of the bottom line, while making. . .

535 times the average Disney employee.

[janetiberiuskirk]

Everyone is so concerned with whether or not they COULD create and disseminate promotional content for studios, they never stopped to think whether or not they SHOULD