If you’re on strike and it’s disrupted things for “regular people” just know that there are a lot of us rooting for you— We get it. Media aren’t being very supportive framing the strike as all the fault of workers— as if we all have to take whatever we are offered & be silent.
The mood is different in the country than it was 15 or 30 years ago— No one is buying that striking workers are greedy. We’re all in this same race to the bottom and it’s good to see people fighting the current.
@futurebird I just read the Wikipedia entry for the new #Oppenheimer movie, directed by Christopher Nolan. To ensure a secure financial gain from making the movie, Nolan bailed on his long-time studio Warner Bros because he didn’t want the movie released on streaming concurrently with the theaters. He settled on Universal Studios because they "agreed to Nolan's stipulations, which included a production budget of $100 million, an equal marketing budget, an exclusive theatrical window ranging from 90–120 days, 20% of the film's first-dollar gross, and a 3-wk period before and after the film's release in which Universal could not release another new film." He also negotiated the big name cast members to accept "$4 million each in lieu of their usual $10–20 million salaries."
If SAG-AFTRA and WGA can negotiate with media corporations as well as Nolan, they might have a chance of turning their fortunes back around for the better. That’s a very, very big IF.
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