Virtual Actors Strike
Posted by Shane on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Remember when Hollywood came to a screeching halt following a strike just a few months back? We may be heading for round two. With it appearing increasingly likely that the Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers will be unable to reach an agreement by the deadline, we are already seeing signs of what some are calling a virtual strike.
A lawyer representing actors told The Hollywood Reporter, “No one is doing anything that finishes after 30 June, and nobody’s starting anything now. This is the impact of a strike already.”
With that in mind, current shoots are either being wrapped up early or not started at all. As for television production, if you thought the winter was bad, you haven’t seen anything yet. Shows, just recovering from the last strike, some of which barely survived to begin with, would face added problems. The fall lineup would be even more chaotic than the winter lineup was.
It’s not too late for both sides to realize that this strike won’t do anything but harm everybody (again), but the clock is ticking.
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Remember when Hollywood came to a screeching halt following a strike just a few months back? We may be heading for round two. With it appearing increasingly likely that the Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers will be unable to reach an agreement by the deadline, we are already seeing signs of what some are calling a virtual strike.
A lawyer representing actors told The Hollywood Reporter, “No one is doing anything that finishes after 30 June, and nobody’s starting anything now. This is the impact of a strike already.”
With that in mind, current shoots are either being wrapped up early or not started at all. As for television production, if you thought the winter was bad, you haven’t seen anything yet. Shows, just recovering from the last strike, some of which barely survived to begin with, would face added problems. The fall lineup would be even more chaotic than the winter lineup was.
It’s not too late for both sides to realize that this strike won’t do anything but harm everybody (again), but the clock is ticking.
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