David Zaslav says the writers were actually right about everything all along but suggests they’re overpaid.

“They are right about almost everything. So what if we overpay? I’ve never regretted overpaying for great talent or a great asset.”

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- DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) November 15, ( Read more... )

SAG-AFTRA has secured informed consent & fair compensation required for the creation & use of digital replicas for performers & background actors

For an employment-based digital replica, actors will be paid the equivalent to the payment if they did the work themselves.

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- DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) November 11 ( Read more... )

Sydney Sweeney today (november 10), filming new scenes for 'Anyone But You' pic.twitter.com/w3np2yduVa
- Sydney Sweeney fans (@SSydneyBest) November 10, 2023
Sydney Sweeney was spotted filming reshoots for her upcoming Romcom with Glen Powell in Australia, just hours after the actor's strike ended. It is one of the first films (possibly the very ( Read more... )

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Actors may have won the battle against AI for now, but animators and artists may still be in the trenches.

Per Cartoon Brew (and the video):

In the good old days, when I made an animated movie, it took 500 artists five years to make a world-class animated movie, [...], I don’t think it will take 10% of that three years from nowWhen asked about ( Read more... )

After a grueling 118 days on strike, SAG-AFTRA has officially reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract with studios, a move that is heralding the end of the 2023 ActorsStrike: https://t.co/qVTdMumBHw pic.twitter.com/jDtTOxhdt9
- The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) November 9, 2023
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Tyler Perry says "it’s really important to know when we’ve won" amid the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike.

"This is only a three-year deal. In two and a half years we’ll be re-negotiating again. So we have to know when we have won for now. That’s the thing. For now! If I had ran my… pic.twitter.com/9rY8OXvfRT
- Variety (@Variety) November 7, 2023

• Tyler ( Read more... )

The studios’ latest offer would reportedly allow them to secure rights to use digital scans of deceased actors without consent of their estate or SAG-AFTRA

SAG has countered that there must be compensation & consent for re-use of actors’ scans.

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- DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) November 7, ( Read more... )

‘Magazine Dreams’ Unset As Jonathan Majors Faces Trial; Disney’s ‘Elio’ & ‘Snow White’ Pushed To 2025 (click photo below for story) https://t.co/vSTthqVr9c
- Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) October 27, 2023

• Elio was supposed to be next March, but is now June 13th 2025. For now, Inside Out 2 is probably still 2024.
• Rachel Zegler's Snow White was ( Read more... )

Happy 100! SAG-AFTRA And Studios To Return To Talks On Tuesday https://t.co/IDHC7oEhSd
- Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) October 21, 2023

• They were suspended on Oct. 11th, with SAG-AFTRA proposing a 75 cents per subscriber annual charge in a revenue share plan with the studios.
• Sarandos, the CEO of Netflix, who has raised its prices twice in the past ( Read more... )

Christopher Nolan: Taylor Swift Skipped Studios for 'Eras Tour' Release and Is Showing Them How 'Incredibly Valuable' Movie Theaters Are https://t.co/CbdkxMFhUi
- Variety (@Variety) October 19, 2023

“Taylor Swift is about to show the studios, because her concert film is not being distributed by the studios, it’s being distributed by a theater owner ( Read more... )