Happy Writers' Strike Everybody!

[Jman]

That’s the dream, but we lack the nepotism factor.

 

 

Solidarity on the picket lines as we approach convention season.

Edited May 8, 2023 by Jman

[MasqueradeOverture]

*Insert Winds Of Winter joke here*

[discolé monade]

i'm just glad that dimension 20 is going to continue with what was already 'written' and continue with the 'ravening war' and the side quests. 

i also think they were able to get a few of the 'game shows' written before all this. 

most of the players are both writers/actors/comedians, so i imagine they are torn between their livelyhood and standing with their fellow writers. 

[1pooh4u]

Writers have been watching their salaries decrease over the last 20 years when everyone else in the studio is making more than ever.   Studios are acting like they’re not worried because they have plenty of stuff to release….until they don’t. 

[MasqueradeOverture]

More of this please:

 

[Jman]

On 5/10/2023 at 2:11 PM, MasqueradeOverture said:

*Insert Winds Of Winter joke here*

Bit too low hanging.

[Jman]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/writers-strike-diary-mid-career-drama-writer-1235491408/
 

Tales from the front lines as the strike rolls on.

[PenguinBoss]

 

[Jman]

Looks like SAG may be joining the WGA in striking, which would grind the already limited action in Hollywood to a complete halt.

[Blatch]

In pressing Zaslav-ological news, the WBD CEO is going to be giving a commencement speech at Boston University this weekend, not too far from where I live. How disgusting. The WGA has planned a picket for it, and the local chapter of the DSA plans on joining in. Funnily enough, it wasn't until glossing over the article just now that I found out he went to school there.

[MasqueradeOverture]

On 5/18/2023 at 9:18 AM, Jman said:

Looks like SAG may be joining the WGA in striking, which would grind the already limited action in Hollywood to a complete halt.

Good. GOOD.

Now let's get the DGA and IATSE in there. Have VFX artists unionize too.

BURN IT DOWN

[discolé monade]

 

[Jman]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/david-zaslav-booed-boston-university-graduation-writers-strike-1235497440/
 

Zaslav did the commencement speech at Boston University, and got the shit booed out of him.

[Jman]

Classic case of “Not helping your case!”

[Doom Metal Alchemist]

1 hour ago, Jman said:

Classic case of “Not helping your case!”

Does this change even have a point?

[discolé monade]

wait, they are remaking raging bull? hollywood absolutely deserves to burn. 
they have had  original ideas for decades now. *but chop stories to hell and back.

 

 

Edited May 24, 2023 by discolé monade
rewording

[André Toulon]

1 hour ago, Doom Metal Alchemist said:

Does this change even have a point?

Pretty sure the point is they are devaluing the actual jobs of the people involved in films and equating them to the average YouTuber or tiktoker.... thereby paving the way the have things like "writers" removed from credits and allow content creation to be the norm and that makes AI totally ok.

I probably could have worded this better but multitasking 

[1pooh4u]

They changed the wording from “writers” to “creators”

yeah they’re definitely making room for AI and other dumb shit with that wording 

Just saw the BU commencement ceremony where the graduates booed the CEO or COO of Warner Bros Discovery.  Dude should have just walked off. He kept trying to continue but it only got worse 😆

[1pooh4u]

1 hour ago, discolé monade said:

wait, they are remaking raging bull? hollywood absolutely deserves to burn. 
they have had  original ideas for decades now. *but chop stories to hell and back.

 

 

Idt they’re remaking Raging Bull. At least not yet.  They’re just changing wording on credits 

[Jman]

That didn’t take long.  Like, at all.

[Raptorpat]

3 hours ago, André Toulon said:

Pretty sure the point is they are devaluing the actual jobs of the people involved in films and equating them to the average YouTuber or tiktoker.... thereby paving the way the have things like "writers" removed from credits and allow content creation to be the norm and that makes AI totally ok.

Yeah, to elaborate, job titles in highly organized sectors aren't just labels. They have very specific contractual/legal meanings and purposes and that's all to protect the workers.

[katt_goddess]

7 hours ago, Jman said:

That didn’t take long.  Like, at all.

It should never have been attempted at all. It's important to know exactly who is the director and who is the writer in things. Those are two vastly different things and not every writer can direct or vice versa. 

The only one to be jazzed about being lumped into a 'creators' list would be someone like the dude who got everyone their coffees. It's an important part of the process but it's not 'same line as Martin Scorsese'.  

[MasqueradeOverture]

The DGA may have won a small battle with their anti-AI clause, but it needs to be synergetic across the industry.

 

[Jman]

This is why Netflix has been hooking up Korean and Japanese studios with American VFX companies (most notably getting Scanline, the people who do effects for Warner’s big blockbusters, to do Yu Yu Hakusho).

Because if the directors and writers strike, everything stops.

[Jman]

 

The directors are not striking.  No word on the actors.  Writers remain on the picket lines.

[Raptorpat]

The SAG-AFTRA authorized a strike, but they haven't gotten to that point yet.

[MasqueradeOverture]

LA's not having a great time

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/los-angeles-hotel-employees-unite-here-local-11-strike-1235527168/

[Jman]

It’s the 11th hour and barring some major breakthroughs, SAG-AFTRA will strike and possibly ruin SDCC.

[MasqueradeOverture]

As much as that sucks (as well as dampening the fanfare for Oppenheimer and Barbie's premiers), fuck the studios. Let it burn.

They have nothing to lose but their chains ☭

[Jman]

Zaslav and friends are calling in the Feds.

 

[Jman]

 

I hope everyone here likes foreign works (then again, we are partially an anime forum) because holy hell.  
 

We are so getting that All Rounder Meguru series with Netflix money to replace Cobra Kai.

[MasqueradeOverture]

9 hours ago, Jman said:

 

I hope everyone here likes foreign works (then again, we are partially an anime forum) because holy hell.  
 

We are so getting that All Rounder Meguru series with Netflix money to replace Cobra Kai.

SCUMFUCKS

[1pooh4u]

10 hours ago, Jman said:

 

I hope everyone here likes foreign works (then again, we are partially an anime forum) because holy hell.  
 

We are so getting that All Rounder Meguru series with Netflix money to replace Cobra Kai.

Fuckin d bags 

[Top Gun]

Everyone needs to cancel all of their streaming services. Hit the fuckers where it actually counts.

[MasqueradeOverture]

35 minutes ago, Top Gun said:

Everyone needs to cancel all of their streaming services. Hit the fuckers where it actually counts.

That is a level of sacrifice I don't have the constitution for, but you do you.

Might hit up a picket line while I'm in LA next month though

Edited July 12, 2023 by MasqueradeOverture

[Top Gun]

Hey, I never said to stop watching things. Sail the high seas, matey!

[Jman]

 

Strike is on.

[Raptorpat]

The negotiation deadline passed, but SAG-AFTRA still has to vote to formally begin a strike.

Edited July 13, 2023 by Raptorpat

[SwimOdin]

Welp,  now I’ve got time to watch stuff without needing to see new stuff? Trying to bright side it.

[Raptorpat]

SAG-AFTRA press conference to start momentarily:

 

[Raptorpat]

Strike begins at midnight for workers under the TV/theatrical contract.

[viperxmns]

4 hours ago, SwimOdin said:

Welp,  now I’ve got time to watch stuff without needing to see new stuff? Trying to bright side it.

I caught up to season 1 of The Last of Us because of strike, but not having subscriptions to all the services limits my catch-up potential

[Jman]

Fast and the Furious 23 - CARS IN SPACE.  That’s what these people want.

[Raptorpat]

I love that the AMPTP referred to the AI proposal as "groundbreaking"

[SwimOdin]

50 minutes ago, Raptorpat said:

I love that the AMPTP referred to the AI proposal as "groundbreaking"

The future sucks

[MasqueradeOverture]

1 hour ago, Jman said:

Fast and the Furious 23 - CARS IN SPACE.  That’s what these people want.

This is a 30 Rock gag come to life.

Satire is dead.

[Jman]

I think replacing actors has always been the end goal of the AMPTF, as far back as that shitty Final Fantasy movie.  Now you get to replace the writers too?  AI doesn’t have tirades about the climate or heavy handed messaging.  It doesn’t demand diverse casting.  AI actors can’t refuse to show their tits.  AI does whatever you want it to, whenever you want it to.

And that’s creepy.

[Master-Debater131]

20 hours ago, SwimOdin said:

The future sucks

Thats because you arent looking at all the possibilities

I personally cant wait until I can create a full digital AI version of myself so I can have it sit in on all these lame ass "teambuilding" teams and zoom calls.

[SwimOdin]

1 hour ago, Master-Debater131 said:

Thats because you arent looking at all the possibilities

I personally cant wait until I can create a full digital AI version of myself so I can have it sit in on all these lame ass "teambuilding" teams and zoom calls.

That’s assuming that corporate America hasn’t already developed an ai that detects when an employee is using ai.

[Master-Debater131]

5 minutes ago, SwimOdin said:

That’s assuming that corporate America hasn’t already developed an ai that detects when an employee is using ai.

Thus begins the first AI War