Actors join Writers on strike

The SGA strike is still ongoing and WGA members are asking if they should be crossing that picket line or not which will make for some interesting conversations between the pair of unions.

variety.com

WGA East Leaders Break Down Guild’s ‘Risky and Unusual’ Effort to Honor SAG-AFTRA Picket Lines: ‘We Have to Keep Supporting Each Other’

WGA East leaders Lowell Peterson and Lisa Takeuchi Cullen talk key moments from the 148-day strike and why they hoped to honor SAG-AFTRA picket lines.
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As an aside, whilst the WGA seem to be very happy with the results of their negotiations, this may end up being a "win the battle but lose the war" type affair as various studios are now changing their contract renewals with these writers. Some have refused to extend contracts to cover the 5 months of strike action and some are only extending a few "high profile" showrunners/writers. When these contracts start to run out in 2025 I think that theirs going to be a lot of writers out of a job but for those few that remain they'll be the only ones to benefit from the WGA strike actions.

deadline.com

Suspend & Not Extend: Universal Studio Group Opts Not To Lengthen Its Reinstated Term Deals, Focuses On Renewals Instead

EXCLUSIVE: For some writer-producers, the enthusiasm over going back to work this week was dampened by the news that their overall deals, suspended during the WGA strike, are being reinstated but n…
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www.latimes.com

Column: Hollywood is ready to go back to work. But Hollywood is never going back to normal

Even contracts that win over the most skeptical writers and actors won't be able to fix some of the biggest fractures facing the industry today.
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As per the Writers strike - I wonder if this is winning the battle but losing the war, as the increased costs for studios that the actors have gained will have to come from somewhere and income from cinema and/or TV advertising is down a lot so it's easier to employ less numbers overall to pay for the increases in pay for those that remain, and it's always easier to lose hundreds of small-scale "bit part" actors than it is to sack a few high profile ones.
 
Netflix price will go up as a consequence . I read earlier they were just waiting for the strike to end to announce the price increases outside of USA. Whether the price would have gone up without the strikes, hard to say but probably!

The strike just gives them an "easy" justification.

Edit:
www.bbc.com

Netflix raises prices despite password crackdown success

The streaming giant raises monthly charges in the US, UK and France after gaining millions of new subscribers.
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It went up in the USA, UK & France already, earlier this month I guess. I'm certain the other Euro countries will soon increase to the France price. Once it's 19.99 Euros in Spain, I'm out.


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ianh said:
As per the Writers strike - I wonder if this is winning the battle but losing the war, as the increased costs for studios that the actors have gained will have to come from somewhere and income from cinema and/or TV advertising is down a lot so it's easier to employ less numbers overall to pay for the increases in pay for those that remain, and it's always easier to lose hundreds of small-scale "bit part" actors than it is to sack a few high profile ones.
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The "added cost" to the film studios is basically nothing, I didn't realise it but the "base" pay for the actors hadn't actually increased for many roles in something like 20 years and the studios had absolutely done them over with regards to the initial streaming contracts which had the residuals based on "promotional work" not "people paying to watch something in full as the key service" (done on the basis that the streaming was purely promotional and not making money for the studio).

IIRC it's expected to cost netflix something like 40 cents a month, at a point when they've already increased prices, and for the likes of WB less than the bonus for just one of their higher execs.
 
Isn't part of the reason for streaming in particular getting costly to provide because of rising costs associated with moving data around? I feel like I've read it somewhere but sadly can't recall...
 
StriderX said:
Isn't part of the reason for streaming in particular getting costly to provide because of rising costs associated with moving data around? I feel like I've read it somewhere but sadly can't recall...
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Possibly but also the execs and investors tend to think that profits should always increase. And like the telecoms industry they forget that there is a finite number of people to buy those services, let alone who want to buy those services so they keep increasing pricing not due to inflation or just to cover costs, but because you must show an increase in profits every quarter even if the market is saturated.
 
Werewolf said:
Possibly but also the execs and investors tend to think that profits should always increase. And like the telecoms industry they forget that there is a finite number of people to buy those services, let alone who want to buy those services so they keep increasing pricing not due to inflation or just to cover costs, but because you must show an increase in profits every quarter even if the market is saturated.
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The problem with our financial society in a nutshell!!
 
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