Screen Actor’s Guild Strike Still Looking Likely
After last year’s Writer’s Guild strike cost the state of California an estimated $2.1 billion, you’d think they’d try to avoid having the same thing happen all over again. Alas, it looks like there is a good chance that history will repeat itself very shortly. The Screen Actor’s Guild have a deal with producers that will expire on June 30th, and a new contract is yet to be agreed upon. The issues at hand are very similar to the WGA strike, in that actors want a bigger cut of the royalties from movie sales online.
Studios are currently bracing for the possibility of a strike by holding back production on feature films and new TV pilots until the situation is resolved. There are a few high profile projects such as Angels & Demons and Transformers 2 that are currently scheduled to shoot up until June 30th and then take a hiatus for a couple of months. Most of the other major productions won’t even start until at least August, as they try to avoid any possible interruptions. It’s unclear what repercussions might be, but there are some TV shows that were cut short last year (such as Heroes) that might run of the risk of having their next season ended early as well. That can’t be good for business. How long before audiences just completely give up?
Comments (6)
OH NO! Transformers 2 is gonna get delayed! People are gonna riot! Bwahahaha. There is nothing I would like better (as far as the movie industry is concerned) than for any Michael bay movie to get permanently delayed.
Posted by Matt on June 18th, 2008As for the strike. It seems that producers consider actors to be a lot more important than writers, so I don’t think the strike will last very long, even if it does get underway.
It’s a shame that all songwriters can’t go on strike, cos they’re the ones that are really getting f*cked in the a*se by the internet.
Posted by Liney on June 18th, 2008I better not see any million dollar actors in the picket line!
Posted by Ryan on June 18th, 2008This is horrible telvision news! First the writers delayed television programming and now the actors??? I agree with Ryan’s comment. It better be smaller actors and not any million dollar ones.
Posted by Unfortunate Television News on June 19th, 2008what these people don’t realize is that there putting themselves out of a job, with these extended strikes more an more people are turning to the internet
Posted by Drew on June 20th, 2008Leave a Reply