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...Last year’s months-long strikes ended with the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild securing groundbreaking protections from AI in their contracts....
...The Chinese government has strict censorship rules on the portrayal of history on screen....
...There have been no discussions for several weeks between the studios and the 160,000-strong Screen Actors Guild, whose members went on strike in mid-July....
...The Writers Guild of America said the preliminary deal was “exceptional” and delivered “meaningful gains and protections for writers in every sector of the membership”....
‘What’s my motivation?’
...Members of the 160,000-strong Screen Actors Guild remain on strike, but hopes are rising that talks will resume now the writers’ strike is over....
...Actors took to the picket lines on July 14, joining members of the Writers Guild of America, who had already been on strike since May....
...Their last joint industrial action was in 1960, when Ronald Reagan was the head of the Screen Actors Guild....
...The Writers Guild has reached a deal with the group representing studios and streamers, but the Screen Actors Guild remains on strike....
...The union’s 160,000 members were set to vote the deal through on Friday, ending a strike in which actors picketed alongside members of the Writers Guild for the first time since 1960....
...The Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild aren’t usually the people you’d turn to when barbarians are at the gate....
...Sarandos said the new data releases were not driven by the strikes but should create “a better environment for the [Hollywood] guilds, for the producers, for creators and for the press”....
...actors....
...Like others on the line, Manohar believes these historic strikes — this is the first joint work stoppage by actors and writers since 1960, when Ronald Reagan was head of the Screen Actors Guild — are essential...
...In the interim, the Screen Actors Guild had begun its industry-wide strike. Actors of vast fame and none at all thus joined the Hollywood writers already taking similar action....
...A new contract agreement was reached on Sunday between studios and the Directors Guild of America, which some hope could form the basis of a deal with the actors and writers....
...During the TV boom of the 1950s and ‘60s, future US president Ronald Reagan, then a liberal Democrat and Screen Actors’ Guild president, helped secure better residual rights....
...The hotel workers, many of whom are on an hourly wage and speak English as a second language, have picketed alongside members of the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild, a group whose loudest...
...data releases were not driven by the strikes but should create “a better environment for the [Hollywood] guilds, for the producers, for creators and for the press”....
...This expense could balloon to as much as $600mn a year if the Directors Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild — whose contracts also end this summer — negotiated a better pay agreement, he estimated...
...The Writers Guild of America reached a deal with the studios in September after five months, but the SAG-AFTRA union representing actors is still on strike....
...conference, permitted to do so by the Screen Actors Guild because the film was made without the involvement of the major studios and streamers with which the union is in dispute....
...At the time, Ronald Reagan was president of the Screen Actors Guild, a predecessor to SAG-AFTRA....
...Round on the Links The link was doors Barn owl “Rat Trap” (The Boomtown Rats) Stable Screen Actors Guild Key Stage All Quiet on the Western Front The Far Side National Service Swing The Great...
...Streaming and its economics are also looming large in the twin strikes starring Hollywood’s Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Television and Radio Artists....
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