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Posts posted by Queen Bitch
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1 hour ago, Longhornsnus said:
It’s tone-deaf to ask Dad for an increase in your allowance the week after he’s lost his job.
Except our labor made dad his money. We created his assets. This is a terrible analogy.
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18 minutes ago, mdmost said:
If it can be replaced by a machine, companies that strictly operate on the desire to increase shareholder value will take full advantage of anything that cuts out salaries and increases the revenue of the company. If a machine can give them a decent idea that can be polished by one person, the studios will go straight to that option and remove human salaries that are a drain.
100%
If they had it their way, the studios would go to the computer and say "Computer, whip up ten scripts for the new season of The Night Agent. Here are a couple of loglines we can use in marketing." Then Shawn Ryan, the series' creator would probably receive a weeks' worth of pay (maybe two if his agents really pushed) to polish the scripts and make the characters sound like humans. All while keeping a close eye on how to eventually eliminate him from the process altogether... on the show HE created...
Side note, when David Simon asked if he'd be willing to work under similar conditions in an interview, he said "I'd rather blow my brains out" lol
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7 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:
I don’t think AI will replace writer/actors, but I do believe it will become a tool that is used. Like any technology, will it cut down on some jobs, sure, but it won’t replace talent.
I don't entirely disagree with you, but we as a guild absolutely cannot trust that the studios will act in good faith and do the right thing by us. Hell, they literally ran to the media thirty-six hours ago and said they'd rather us lose our homes than return to the negotiating table before October. We also cannot in any way afford to wait until the next contract expires in three years to address the AI problem. Our position is that, by then, it'll be far too late to start retroactively putting protections in place.
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3 hours ago, immamac said:
All this would be solved if streaming went away and the actual consumers of entertainment had a way to you know, pay for that entertainment at a market value established by them instead of some idiots in a studio somewhere who charge 24.99 for a fucking Blu-ray. Why not just charge 6-9 dollars for a downloadable movie that you can opt to have streamed from some centralized place cuz you don't wanna manage the storage/files etc.
That would fix everything. Pay comes in, pay goes to studios, pay goes to actors, everyone knows how much everyone is consuming or buying.
Streaming has fucked everything up and it's really weird because it doesn't really actually save anyone any money including the studios.
*This* is what kills me the most. The execs love to say "The business has changed, the business has changed..."
Well yeah, because you broke it. You stopped properly monetizing your studios' output and library and went all in on vertical integration chasing the solitary Netflix model. It's not our fault y'all forgot how to diversify. That's your literal job as a suit. Leave the world-building, character arcs, and third act story problems to us. Sure, we'll take your notes if they're good. Hell, sometimes they are. In the meantime, remember what made film and television wildly profitable for its first century and maybe keep your focus on that -- cuz if *you* can't wildly profit off it too, that should reflect YOUR compensation, not ours.
And regarding AI -- it's fool's gold. It won't be able to tell good stories. It's regressive and draws from what it already knows. A Barbie AI movie wouldn't appeal to a single fucking adult, but the wildly inventive take (for a Mattel toy) by A FUCKING HUMAN CREATIVE is on the verge of a $100 million opening. So yeah, if we don't stand up and fight *now*, the suits will go all in on AI trying to make it work. Once they inevitably realize they can't rely on AI to tell stories, it'll be years too late. And by then, the business will be permanently, irreparably broken.
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1 hour ago, Longhornsnus said:
As an industry outsider I have an opinion, and I’m not sure if it’s a shared one from industry outsiders or not, but the AI stuff actors and writers are going to have to live with. The toothpaste is out of the tube and zero executives are going to deny the ability to use potentially the most efficient and profit optimizing tool since the internet.
Can't speak for SAG, but AI and room minimums are the two biggest issues discussed on the WGA lines. The nuances of room minimums are slightly harder to explain to an outsider, but AI instantly resonates with any worker -- hence it's the one that gets the most press.
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Anyone wanna guess who the SAG president was the last time the WGA and SAG struck together?
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Actors have been on the lines with us since day one. Less out of solidarity (although that too, obv) and more because they're also rightfully fucking pissed.
Oh and re: that "We're fine admitting in print that we want the writers to suffer so much that they lose their homes"... there's this delicious morsel. Come quick, the C-suites are fighting!!!
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SAG joining us on the lines next week. It's happening, y'all.
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He thought he was signing up for a documentary about Jury Duty, hence the show getting to do their due diligence to make sure he was the guy.
He also didn't suspect, to the point where, when the show stopped shooting, he was paranoid it was still happening. Cast members including Marsdsen had to call to tell him it was really over, and there were no extra pranks / hidden cameras around the metaphorical corner.
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As someone who was actually there.... there weren't thousands of people protesting. Not even close.
Also, for the fortunate Dodger fans who don't live their lives online.... a protest telling us to "Stop Catholic Hate" was most likely met with a confused, "Huh?"
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Lapdogs gonna lapdog — on the strength of the writers picket lines no less. Not surprising, it’s just what they do.
Meanwhile, the actors correctly told the studios to get bent with an overwhelming strike authorization vote.
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16 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:
If a movie was being filmed overseas, presumably with a full script, would they be able to hire local writers for simple rewrites and edits outside of the union?
Those writers would be scabs and banned from ever joining the guild.
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This would've happened in May 2020, when the last contract was up... but Covid basically killed any negotiating power the guild had. Leadership knew there was no way they'd get a massive strike authorization vote. AI/ChatGPT weren't on the radar yet, but all of the other issues would've prompted a strike. So this moment has really been in the back of minds since then, on both sides.
Also, picketing rules, and I've met more writers in the last week than I have since joining the guild 5 years ago.
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Speaking of dumbfuck politicians from Tenn...
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Whooooooooo boy
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22 whole points on the half?! Fucking lulz, aggy
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I didn't love it either (and was surprised how bored I was on second viewing, when I was really hoping to be drawn in on the emotion) but I think it's a rad and worthy Best Picture winner.
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2 minutes ago, someguy said:
I also didn't see Charlbi Dean - you know, one of the main actresses in a Best Picture nominee who tragically died at 32 in August.
According to Twitter, she was included in the In Memoriam QR Code, which.... WOOF
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Also The Whale is atrocious and one of the worst movies I've seen in years
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If you're in line to vote for Lydia Tár, STAY IN LINE
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Put Margot Robbie back in her I, TONYA make-up and let's shoot this thing!
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And so we're riding IBRX into the ground, huh
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20 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:
goddammit I hate when that man is accidentally fucking hysterical. I nearly choked on my last swig of coffee. asshole.
He really is the king of comedy. I hate it, but it's just the facts!
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3 minutes ago, YGIFS said:
I've literally drank bourbon and looked in the eye of Ted Cruz while somebody else was fucking his wife not 50 feet from us while I ran interference.
We're gonna need a little more than a sentence here, bud. Go on...
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The Business of Hollywood & Streaming
in Movies and TV
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Sorry for these very long screeds, but walking in slow picket-line circles in the sweltering sun these past few months -- and everything changing for the better with SAG jumping in -- and well, I've got a lot on my mind about the state of things and nowhere to really put it.
I keep hoping we're nearing the end of this era of Hollywood, similar to when 1960s Hollywood collapsed under the weight of a bunch of big-budget musicals and old-fashioned spectacles, all of which bombed at the box office one after the other. Tastes had changed, the younger audiences didn't give a single fuck about Paint Your Wagon, and Hollywood couldn't quite figure out what they wanted. (In today's equation, I'm thinking the zillionth superhero retread and tired franchises with very little gas left in their respective tanks. This summer's dismal box office under-performance supports how dire this problem is today.)
So... what happened next? The dawn of New Hollywood. The Godfather, Chinatown, The Conversation, Cabaret, The Exorcist, Robert Altman. The 1970s remain the undisputed artistic era for cinema.
How exactly could another New Hollywood happen today? Well, it probably involves these bratty corporate titans dismantling the studios and selling them for parts. That sounds dramatic, but Zas is kind of already doing that with WB and it's an open secret that Paramount doesn't have that many years left as a studio. Or maybe it involves Wall Street massively downgrading media stocks for terrible box office receipts and a lack of streaming profits. Or maybe, just maybe, it involves the writers and actors demanding radical change (it's sad that 'radical change' here means "don't replace us with machines and also let us be able to afford to live in the city where we work", but hey, that's just late stage capitalism.)
We write cool shit in Hollywood, I promise -- but we're not the ones with greenlight power. This era of Hollywood is so deeply risk averse and IP obsessed, and I for one would love to see it collapse. Another New Hollywood -- let's fuckin go.
(We don't have nice things anymore, so this won't happen, but hey, it's fun to dream.)