WGA/SAGAFTRA Strike Discussion Thread | SAG Ratifies Contract

[MovieMan89]

Hard stop supposedly in 3 hours or so and we’re still not hearing anything… doesn’t instill the most confidence… 

[Derpity]

21 minutes ago, MovieMan89 said:

Hard stop supposedly in 3 hours or so and we’re still not hearing anything… doesn’t instill the most confidence… 

 

Nah, silence is good.

[AniNate]

Silence is silence

[Eric the Minion]

12 minutes ago, AniNate said:

Silence is silence

Silence is a good Scorsese movie imo

[YM!]

Hello darkness my old friend

[MovieMan89]

Silence is golden? (throwback to AMC way before Nicole iykyk) 

[Eric the Minion]

36 minutes ago, YM! said:

Hello darkness my old friend

Wasn't Trolls such a great movie?

[WittyUsername]

Anything? 

[SpiderByte]

Nope. Much much quieter than the last few days.

[Squire]

This is gonna take a while longer. Any hope of both strikes being resolved before the end of October is fading. 

[filmlover]

57 minutes ago, MovieMan89 said:

Silence is golden? (throwback to AMC way before Nicole iykyk) 

The ultimate icon tbh.

 

[The GOAT]

4 hours ago, Porthos said:

 

Even if you don't believe the AMPTP's self-reported stance of Yom Kippur being a deadline for (this round of) negotiations and that if they don't get a deal by then they'll walk away from the table, negotiations would still very likely be suspended during Yom Kippur due to so many of the folks involved observing Yom Kippur.

I did not realize the Jewish studio executives were religious. Always assumed they were the secular/agnostic types. 

Edited September 25, 2023 by The GOAT

[AniNate]

They probably aren't all but Yom Kippur is like the holiest of holy Jewish days, so if you're religious at all you're compelled to suspend business dealings. Certain Jewish baseball players have famously refused to play on the day.

[Cmasterclay]

I'm a Jew who celebrates all of the major holidays except Yom Kippur. I've atoned enough, thank you very much.

[AniNate]

Well, I imagine there's no shortage of yearly sins CEOs feel the need to atone for

[SpiderByte]

All we know is there is an offer and WGA will make a press release about it today.

[Porthos]

I tend to think the end of Q3 (Sep 30) is a bigger deal when all said and done.  I've seen commentary, or bluster/propaganda if one prefers, that companies would look to "punt" the upcoming quarter if it looked liked the strikes would drag into it.

 

Obviously still gonna hit the first week of October as even if an agreement (in principle) is agreed to with the WGA, no way SAG-AFTRA would be that quick.  So that theory is already on the ropes a tad.

 

But I do think the Yom Kippur soft deadline is/was more of a symbolic one in that it coincides well with the end of Q3 and if these strikes both stretch long into Q4, then we enter a new phase of all of this where it might be a while before negotiations start back up.

 

OBLIGATORY:  No one knows anything, so the above (esp no negotiations for a while if it stretches into Oct) is quite likely to be wrong.

Edited September 25, 2023 by Porthos

[filmlover]

 

[Cmasterclay]

From the trades so taking it with a grain of salt, but if they're really discussing what work can be done until ratification then the major points would be pretty much resolved. It would be unconventional for a strike to end pre-ratification, though.

[WittyUsername]

20 minutes ago, AniNate said:

Well, I imagine there's no shortage of yearly sins CEOs feel the need to atone for

Doesn’t atonement require a conscience?