Striking actor Ron Perlman responds to studio executive who said, "The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their houses."
"There's a lot of ways to lose your house. One of them is figuring out who the fuck said that. And where he fucking lives."
i miss seeing character development that made their arcs make sense
i miss shows flowing at a natural pace instead of constantly being bombarded with high stakes conflicts
i miss seeing my fave characters exist in situations that aren't essential to the plot
i miss when ceos didn't cut the amount of episodes in half to maximize profit and minimize how much they have to pay to the people (actors, writers, editors, vfx, crew, hair & makeup artists, costumers and many more) who's blood sweat and tears make them rich
Why is tumblr getting so excited over Tree Law, exactly? Universal has already faced the only punishment they will ever face for cutting those trees: a $250 fine. That’s it. And their lawyers knew it from the beginning. It’s not like they didn’t know what they were getting into when they did it.
Does someone know something I don’t? Is there an army of tree lawyers somewhere putting together a class action against Universal? Somehow I doubt it.
Tree law ain’t gonna help us here. Direct Action, a la Ron Perlman, is the only thing that’s gonna make a difference to these shithead studio execs. Don’t get distracted.
Actual footage of the Universal Studios* CEO "trimming" all of the shade trees at one of the L.A. WGA/SAG-AFTRA picket locations, so strikers have no protection from the intense heat of the sun
(*production company behind 2012's tumblr hit film The Lorax)
So, here is my take and I'm going to have to wait and see how it plays out, but I feel pretty confident about it:
AMPTP will have to concede to SAG-AFTRA / WGA at some point.
Watch all the streaming services raise their rates.
The streaming services will claim it is because of the demands they had to meet for SAG-AFTRA / WGA and that they need money to pay the actors and writers... and that the cost will have to fall to the consumers.
This is of course BS. They have the money now... but they will flip this making it sound like the actors and writers are greedy and the poor poor streaming services etc have no choice but to make the consumers pay more to cover themselves.