EXCLUSIVE: North America’s largest genre festival, Fantasia, is currently in full flow, but amid two Hollywood strikes, its staff are speaking out about what they deem to be horror conditions.
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Ron Perlman has clarified a “heated” remark he made in response to a quote from a studio executive amid the Hollywood strikes.Last week, the national board of SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists), which represents 160,000 actors and performers, voted unanimously to strike, seeking better pay and working conditions in the age of streaming, as well as safeguards against the unregulated use of artificial intelligence.Amid the strike, Deadline reported one anonymous studio executive saying of the AMPTP’s (Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers) strategy: “The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses.”In response, via a since-deleted Instagram Live, Perlman suggested that the executive should “be careful” as “there’s a lot of ways to lose your house”.A post shared by Ron Perlman (@perlmutations)Taking once again to his page, Perlman has issued a response, saying in a clip that he wanted “to give a background of my experience as a guild member and to give some of my reactions to the current events while we find ourselves in this situation”.“In the aftermath of that, there has been a lot of reaction, mainly because at one point, admittedly, I got quite heated because I was talking about a quote from one of the executives on the other side of the negations talking about how they planned to not even begin negotiating until writers and actors started losing their houses and their apartments,” he said.“And so as you can imagine my reaction to somebody wishing that kind of harm on people in the very same industry that they call their own would engender a response.
So let me make something very clear
.EXCLUSIVE: North America’s largest genre festival, Fantasia, is currently in full flow, but amid two Hollywood strikes, its staff are speaking out about what they deem to be horror conditions.
Ted Hope delivered a blistering takedown of the studios and streamers during an “out-of-the-box” keynote at the Locarno Film Festival. The veteran U.S.
Stephen Amell is clarifying his viral comments about the actors’ strike.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Not this again. After the two years of havoc that COVID inflicted on their business, movie theater owners thought they were past the days of blank marquees. Studios, miraculously, have been releasing films at a regular rate.
Eamonn Holmes has addressed, who can only be described as his number one fan, as he was shown support over a string of 'precious' pictures. The former This Morning star claimed he 'doesn't look the same these days' as he shared photos of his granddaughter who had got her hands on his book.
With Hollywood’s leading writers’, actors’, and TV/film professionals’ unions on strike together for the first time in more than half a century, the 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony has been postponed, Variety reported exclusively last night (July 27) and multiple outlets have since confirmed. The event was originally scheduled to take place September 18, and no makeup date is currently on the books, though Variety reported earlier this month that Fox (the Emmys’ airers) was preparing to reschedule the awards to January 2024 in anticipation of the setback.
Scottish actress Sharon Rooney first made a name for herself as Christine's daughter Sophie when she starred in the Scots BBC sitcom Two Doors Down, and she's been quickly climbing the ladder in the cut-throat industry ever since.
Sony has removed the highly anticipated Spider-Man: Beyond The Spider-Verse from its release schedule, according to reports.Per Variety, Sony has delayed multiple movies like Kraven The Hunter and a sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife, while completely removing Beyond The Spider-Verse from its roster, effectively delaying the already-in-development film indefinitely.Beyond The Spider-Verse was originally scheduled for release in March 2024, but was halted due to the ongoing writers and actors strike in Hollywood. According to reports from Variety, the film’s voice cast were unable to complete dialogue recording before the strikes commenced and union’s work stoppage orders kicked in.According to Variety‘s report, a revised release date is expected to be announced in “the coming weeks”.The Aaron Taylor-Johnson-led Kraven The Hunter has also been pushed back from October 2023 to August next year, while the sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife is being delayed from December 20, 2023 until late March 2024.Meanwhile, films like Venom 3 and Bad Boys 4 have received their first release dates.
Brad Pitt has paused filming on his forthcoming Formula One movie to support the ongoing Hollywood strikes.The project currently titled Apex stars Pitt as a driver who comes out of retirement to team up with a rookie and take on the titans of the sport.He recently shot scenes at the British Grand Prix as part of the production earlier this month.But filming has now ground to a halt as Pitt “very much stands” alongside his fellow actor union members, according to PA (via Sky News).According to Deadline, filming was set to take place at the The Circuit de Spa Francorchamps in Belgium during the Grand Prix today (July 30) but this has now been pulled.The next planned dates for shooting are in Las Vegas in November.Seven-time Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton is working as a producer and will also be advising on the storyline and script on the Apple Studios film.The latest development comes just days after the 2023 Emmy Awards were postponed due to the ongoing writers’ and actors’ strikes.The 75th Primetime Emmy Awards were scheduled to take place Monday, September 18 at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles but are now likely to go ahead next January.The actors’ strike coincides with the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike, which began on May 2 and halted production on a number of projects.
Emmy Awards are being postponed due to the ongoing Hollywood strikes, according to reports.The 75th Primetime Emmy Awards were scheduled to take place Monday, September 18 at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.Now, Variety report that the continued writers’ and actors’ strikes in the industry have led organisers to postpone the original date.The report adds that they are currently looking for alternate dates for the awards, with Variety hinting at a January 2024 date.Succession racked up the most nominations for the 2023 Emmys with 27 in total, with The Last Of Us behind with 24 nominations.The White Lotus (23), Ted Lasso (22), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (14), The Bear (13), and Beef (13) also picked up a significant amount of nods.To be eligible for a nomination, a show must have aired between June 1, 2022 and May 31, 2023.The Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) began a strike this month.
voice actor Tom Kenny's wife is clearing the air after the internet confused her husband with Ariana Grande's new boyfriend, Ethan Slater.The confusion came after an Instagram post on which posted a headline to their page that read: «Is Ariana Grande Dating SpongeBob Now?» leading some commenters to believe that Grande had moved on from her marriage to Dalton Gomez with the longtime voice actor.The SquarePants in question is actually Slater, Grande's co-star and new boo, who has a link of his own. While he didn't play a part in the popular Nickelodeon TV series, Slater did stay as SpongeBob in in 2016.Kenny's wife, Jill Talley, took to the comments of 's post and set the record straight.«Hi everyone, I'm married to Tom Kenny (who voices SpongeBob on the TV show),» Talley wrote, per She continued, «He is not dating Ariana Grande.
EXCLUSIVE: A3 on Friday laid off 10 people, seven assistants and three coordinators. It is the first major round of layoffs in the Hollywood representation business since the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike but won’t be the last. With Hollywood production grinding to a halt as actors joined writers in walking out after talks with studios fell through, talent agencies and management companies are mulling new staff cuts, especially those companies that rely heavily on film and scripted TV revenue.
As the SAG-AFTRA strike begins its second week, there’s no indication that negotiations will resume between that guild or the WGA with AMPTP any time soon. And that’s bad news for studios, as actors on strike will begin not only to affect the production of new work, but the premieres of upcoming schedule films.
Warner Bros. is considering moving three highly anticipated movies to 2024 amid the two strikes happening in Hollywood: SAG-AFTRA and WGA.
Fran Drescher became the "it girl" in Hollywood from the beginning of her career. From dancing with John Travolta in her first film, to creating and starring in her own, award-winning television sitcom, and then pivoting into becoming one of the most powerful people in the industry – Drescher kept her eye on the prize: success. The New York-native had big dreams as a kid, and wanted to be a writer, hairdresser, actor or politician.
Netflix stands to benefit from the dual strikes underway in Hollywood while competitors like Disney and Apple will get “weaker,” in part because of the streamer’s vast international production pipeline, a top media-stocks analyst said Wednesday on the brink of earnings season.“The strike plays to their advantage,” Michael Nathanson, founding partner of SVB MoffettNathanson, said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “I’ve not been a Netflix bull, but their setup for this quarter and the next 12 months is incredibly strong.”Co-host Andrew Ross-Sorkin seized on that notion, seeking to clarify whether Nathanson meant Netflix would get stronger merely relative to its competition – or if it could help the streamer overall. The answer seemed to be: a bit of both.“I think relative, clearly, right?” Nathanson said.
Scots actress Sharon Rooney has cancelled her appearance at the screening of the Barbie movie in Glasgow due to the Screen Actors Guild strike.
Twitter on Saturday (July 15) in response to the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) strike which began last week. The union, which represents 160,000 actors and performers, are seeking an increase in base pay and residuals in the age of streaming, along with safeguards against the unregulated use of artificial intelligence in the industry.In a post in support of the strike, Ruffalo wrote: “How about we all jump into indies now? Content creators create a film & TV-making system alongside the studio & streaming networks? So there is actual competition.Then we just do what we always do—create great content & they can buy it, or we take it out ourselves & WE share in those sales.
Look, there are a lot of angry people in Hollywood right now. That’s just a by-product of watching two of the three major guilds (the WGA and SAG) both striking at the same time.
Watch Below: Fran Drescher Explains The 2023 Actors StrikeTwo separate strikes are currently affecting Hollywood and the broader film and media industry. The 2023 Writers Guild of America went on strike on May 2, 2023, over an ongoing labour dispute with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. The strike is still ongoing and is the first official writers strike in 15 years.On July 13 the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (Sag-Aftra) also announced that they were formally on strike, joining writers who had been striking for weeks. This marks the first time in 63 years that Hollywood writers and actors are striking simultaneously. This marks the first time in 63 years that Hollywood writers and actors are striking simultaneously.The Writers Guild of America are demanding higher wages and an overhaul of the residual payment process to reflect the modern age of streaming content. The advent of streaming has dramatically shifted how audiences consume entertainment and streaming platforms such as Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video are generating more titles than ever before. This increase in market size has seen a collective decline in pay for writers during a time when the cost of living is increasing. Like the writers' strike, one of the main concerns of Hollywood's acting strike is the payment of residuals in the age of streaming and the union is demanding residuals to be partly based on viewership levels on streaming services.