Sunday, November 04, 2007
Writers Strike Could Cost Actors Jobs
Backstage: "As wildfires raged throughout Southern California last week, entertainment-industry professionals fretted and strategized about what many perceive as another potential catastrophe: an increasingly likely Writers Guild of America strike that would shut down hundreds of productions indefinitely, and the possibility that actors and directors may also strike when their contracts expire next summer."
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Hopefully, this will be the thing to prevent this strike from being long-term. The strike will put a lot of people out of work, for their will be less work for actors, technicians, and the like out there. This will hopefully be enough to get the producers to try to reason with the writers more. Interestingly, though, the SAG president is supporting the strike. I'm sure he is hoping it is a quick strike, though.
This always happens when the industry gets big enough. When the industry is small and all the people are working for the same goal, to get the show on, people are busy enough to not think about individuals in the process. But once the industry expands and more investors take good look at the industry, everyone in the production starts to go on the strike. Strange..
It's good to see the SAG supporting the writers. It seems that more often then not the writers are kind of on their own. The issues the writer's are confronting are also not limited to just the writers and Producing companies. Their actions have a ripple effect, and it's really important that the people who are heading all these negotiations and possibly a strike consider that.
It's nice to see SAG supporting the union, but how fair is it for the actors to "participate" in this when they seem to have no quarrels or demands at the moment? The strike can go on, but I don't see the reason to dragged the actors into this. Sure, they may be temporarily out of a job unless this is resolved, but really when they support the strike, all I see is them kissing asses to get back to work.
i bet the SWG started the fires in protest!
not really, i just thought it was irrelevant that they mention the fires at the beginning. Maybe it was in an attempt to relate the SWG talks to "things heating up?" . . . i don't know.
Certainly it is nice to see SAG offering up it's support to the WGA...but I just think it's a little weird to be say, "alright guys, feel free to protest with the WGA guys, but you still need to cross those same picket lines to go to work and auditions." I just hope this clears up before there is a strike because I don't know if I can handle another huge dose reality TV...
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