Ethan Shanfeld Ryan Knapp woke up before sunrise one morning in July and left his home in northern New Hampshire at 5:30 a.m. to catch a movie. It wasn’t just any day at the cinema.
27.07.2023 - 20:43 / deadline.com
It’s been 87 days since the writers hit the picket lines and 14 days since the actors joined them, yet the divisions between the guilds and the studios remain as deep as ever.
One of the biggest fights that remains is how performers and writers should be compensated for work they create for streaming services.
“The question is: Are you or are you not willing to share some of the revenue you generate from actors, and also from writers, directors and crew, with them or not? The answer needs to be yes. It is not okay anymore for companies to just bring in huge amounts of revenue from people’s work and not share it with them,” SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland told Deadline.
Writers and actors do receive fixed residuals for their work on streaming services, but they are not tied directly to the success of a show, and even the most high-profile creatives have been known to receive pennies for some of their work.
But now, both guilds agree that a fixed residual is not enough to properly reflect their members’ contributions to the streaming services. In its proposal to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the WGA suggested a “viewership-based” residual model, in addition to the fixed residual already in place. That was rejected, according to the union. SAG-AFTRA took that suggestion one step further, proposing that performers receive a 2% share of the revenue generated from streaming content. That proposal was also flat-out rejected, according to the guild.
“We had this proposal on the table on day one of negotiations on June 7. To this very day, throughout that entire 35 days of bargaining and even since, the companies have never come back to us with any substantive response,”
Ethan Shanfeld Ryan Knapp woke up before sunrise one morning in July and left his home in northern New Hampshire at 5:30 a.m. to catch a movie. It wasn’t just any day at the cinema.
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Jeff Zucker was breezing through the Faena Hotel in Miami Beach when he spotted David Zaslav across the room. The former CNN chief was there on vacation on March 31, while the current Warner Bros. Discovery CEO was on hand for the Saudi-backed FII Institute’s Global Priority Summit.
2023 FIFA Women's World Cup is underway. The biggest international tournament in women's soccer is being co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand this year. For the first time, 32 teams — eight more than the previous edition held in France — will face off for the coveted FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 trophy.The USA women's team won their first match on Friday, July 21 against the Vietnam soccer team.
SAG-AFTRA will hold a mass rally in Times Square on Tuesday morning. It’s expected to be the biggest rally in NYC since the strike began on July 14. Celebs scheduled to attend the “Rock the City for a Fair Contract” rally include Bryan Cranston, Steve Buscemi, Christian Slater, Lauren Ambrose, Christine Baranski, Matt Bomer, Tituss Burgess, Liza Colón-Zayas, Gregory Diaz, Jennifer Ehle, Nancy Giles, Danai Gurrira, Jill Hennessy, Marin Hinkle, Stephen Lang, Arian Moayed, Wendell Pierce, Corey Stoll and Merritt Wever.
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EXCLUSIVE: For those awards strategists wondering whether stars from indie U.S. films can promote at the fall film festival troika, SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland says “We’re looking at that issue.”