WGA/SAGAFTRA Strike Discussion Thread | SAG Ratifies Contract

[ddddeeee]

2 hours ago, MovieMan89 said:

The LOTR show costing way more than the trilogy and not looking a fraction as pretty or impressive, despite the trilogy being 25 years old and having more footage to spread the budget thin, says it all about budget control being needed on these shows. 
 

Studios need to be way more focused on *gasp* the writing with these shows. 

I disagree with this big time. The show was mostly boring but it looked incredible. 

[ChipDerby]

44 minutes ago, ddddeeee said:

I disagree with this big time. The show was mostly boring but it looked incredible. 

 

Yes, the show was gorgeous.

[Cmasterclay]

Even if an ageement was reached tomorrow for SAG, which obviously isn't happening, the time needed to ratify it would probably take it past Toronto anyway at this point.

[4815162342]

2 hours ago, ddddeeee said:

I disagree with this big time. The show was mostly boring but it looked incredible. 

 

1 hour ago, ChipDerby said:

 

Yes, the show was gorgeous.

 

Yeah the production values for the most part were pretty good. You could see where the money went.

 

Unlike other certain large budget franchise adaptations

[Squire]

21 minutes ago, 4815162342 said:

 

 

Yeah the production values for the most part were pretty good. You could see where the money went.

 

Unlike other certain large budget franchise adaptations

Yup, you could see the money in the production values. Too bad they went cheap on the writing side. A well written show would have served Amazon better. 

[MovieMan89]

I could see money was spent obviously, but it didn’t look as impressive as LOTR, which I had just seen again. That’s a problem when that’s so old and a fraction of the budget. 

[filmlover]

It's highly unlikely the strikes last until 2024 since they're already back on at least speaking terms with WGA, but if AMPTP were to somehow let it drag out until the new year with no end in sight, they might as well be taken out back and given the Old Yeller treatment.

[AniNate]

Nice to see the thread's gotten very chill all of sudden, just letting the process play out. Hopefully no one pulls any eleventh hour shit and both strikes are indeed resolved in the next few weeks.

[Jonwo]

8 hours ago, filmlover said:

It's highly unlikely the strikes last until 2024 since they're already back on at least speaking terms with WGA, but if AMPTP were to somehow let it drag out until the new year with no end in sight, they might as well be taken out back and given the Old Yeller treatment.

TBH 2024 was always unlikely, it's too much financial pain for everyone. 

[Ryan Reynolds]

the longer this goes on , the more the younger audience will permanently be lost to youtube, tiktok and ai generated alternatives. In the end the studios, writers and actors will all lose.

[Kon]

Well, it seems the SAG has allowed promotion for the movie "PRISCILLA".

 

[Squire]

1 hour ago, Kon said:

Well, it seems the SAG has allowed promotion for the movie "PRISCILLA".

 

I didn’t realize that one studio could agree to SAGs demands. 

[Dementeleus]

1 hour ago, Squire said:

I didn’t realize that one studio could agree to SAGs demands. 

A24 isn’t part of the AMPTP.

[filmlover]

Yeah, A24 is a true indie studio (unlike The Big 5 and semi-majors that are full-blown corporations like Lionsgate and MGM), which has made the eye-rolling over all the approvals their movies even more silly. Just goes to show how ingrained within the public conscious the perception that everyone in the entire entertainment industry is obnoxiously rich (spoiler alert: they're not) is.

[21C]

 

There's a couple of areas where I can see the WGA wanting more but this is honestly a lot more progress than what I expected.

[Ryan Reynolds]

i don't know much , but a 5% wage increase , is nothing with inflation

[21C]

I don't believe the WGA should take this deal but it's a good starting point.

[Dementeleus]

 

[Cmasterclay]

I know we shouldn't share any EC tweets, but this is too good. David Simon baby!

 

 

[The GOAT]