Studios Suspend Talks With SAG-AFTRA; AMPTP Says Gap Between Sides ‘Is Too Great’

[stewie_e]

Studios Say SAG-AFTRA Talks Suspended: Gap Between Parties Is "Too Great" https://t.co/j0Tk5KdRVB
- The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) October 12, 2023
Actors will remain on strike, for the time being. Negotiations between SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP have been suspended after over a week. The AMPTP said in a statement late on October 11 that following the

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[artemisofluna]

AMPTP sound like they're being shitty little assholes.

[gillenvillain]

they ARE and always have been greedy fuckasses who care about nothing but their profits.

[violue]

good luck making movies with hand puppets that don't talk i guess

[mixtape_reverie]

Puppeteers are SAG :)

[violue]

then i'm afraid it's poorly assembled little stick men made from glued together popsicle sticks

[mixtape_reverie]

yeah, that counts as a puppet

[aotearoagal]

$800 million is a pittance compared to what the studios are making on the backs of the workers.

[warwarwar]

I was going to say. That’s an economic burden when one movie costs $200 mil to make nowadays?

[sandstorm]

Right like if every studio doesn't make one blockbuster a year they're good.

[xdecadentx]

I literally had to read the figure twice. I was like that's 3 movies worth of funding the way we're currently going.

[bsfan]

Great. Just great. Honestly I was already done with SAG-AFTRA and this doesn't help. All their interim agreements, loopholes, meeting every other day, etc. I wish they'd just pick a lane and stick with it. I'm sick of all of this.

This doesn't mean I'm on the side of the AMPTP. Screw those guys too. It's just that WGA was solid. They didn't write. They shut down anyone trying to find a loophole. They met every day to finalize the deal. That's why they got what they got. SAG is all over the place.

I wonder what "2% cut of streaming revenue" really means. Like is it 2% per actor? 2% to split among all the actors? Every other aspect of the proposed deal actually sounds really good, and this seems to be the sticking point. Every other department is getting pissy so they better figure this out soon. A lot of people are in trouble and the holidays are coming up.

[aristobrit]

This guy is a financial analyst for the entertainment industry.

I want SAG to get paid. Well paid.

This 2% thing is not realistic. And the idea that payments would be based on analytics from an outside company, Parrot or anyone, is silly.

There is no revenue by show in streaming. It’s an unreality. Find another standard, SAG.
- David Poland (@DavidPoland) October 12, 2023

[squirrels_oh_no]

That just makes it sound like streaming itself is fucked.

[aristobrit]

Correct, streaming is fucked. This analyst talks about it all the time. It's not sustainable. He says Netflix's stock price is insane because they spend way too much for streamers and don't make up for it with new subscribers. One day the bottom is just going to fall out of it.

[rosytintedflash]

ugh and here I was hoping it might resolve quicker than the writer's strike after their recent success