Hollywood’s Dual Strike Is Over, and the Studios Lost
Hollywood’s Dual Strike Is Over, and the Studios Lost
The writers and actors didn’t get everything they wanted, but they forced their bosses to blink.
The studios didn't lose jack shit and are gonna be fine. They're just upset that the humans who make up their workforce will no longer accept having the studios spit in their mouths when they're thirsty.
Make no mistake, the true talent of Hollywood only just barely upgraded to the execs now pissing in their mouths. Sure, they're less likely to die from thirst, but they still don't get to drink water from the studio fountain.
Actors are off strike? I'm glad they got what they were asking for. The studio's greed will hurt the whole industry immensely as projects are pushed half a year.
Mostly. Actors will now get residuals based on performance metrics of their shows, rather than based on the subscriber counts of the service itself (which is what the guild was originally fighting for). I think that's fair and good for everyone - actors, studios/services, and customers. Actors get rewarded for successful shows, studios will not have to choose between deleting an existing show from existence or cover residuals that are more than the show is worth, and customers lose less content as a result.
Once of the reasons so many shows have disappeared lately is because a "royalties based on service subscribers" provision existed since the last strike, meaning even shows that aren't successful can cost a service a lot of money to keep around. So instead, they just remove them from existence.
This is a key important point. Thank you for explaining it so eloquently.
Thanks for the save.
Damn OP, you really farming internet points with the long-ass list of crossposts I gotta get through before I could write this comment lol
You've got to go through them? How so?
No points to farm on Lemmy, it doesn't even keep track of your totals. I just like spreading labor news.
doesn't even keep track of your totals
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Any details on the agreement?
Haven't been revealed yet to the press