Point And Laugh At The Screen Actors Guild!
No, SERIOUSLY! I haven’t felt this jovial since someone hamstrung Herr Doktor’s Postal wreckage!
Why? That’s an EASY one! The Screen Actors Guild has turned down AMPTP’s “last, best, and final offer”, an offer which reportedly contained over two hundred fifty million dollars in additional compensation, the much-vaunted new media protection rights that the WGA signed away in the first place and even protection for health and pension benefits.
This frees the AMPTP to do one of two things–they can either enforce the terms of the current contract and tell the SAG where to get off or they can make separate deals, as I suggested earlier, with AFTRA, who has no problem with the AMPTP’s current contract.
SAG, meanwhile, has lost virtually all its leverage and forced its membership into a stalemate that could last, some project, months or even years!
Now, some uncharitable souls out there might well find ME uncharitable for the sheer amount of schadenfreude I’m tossing at the Screen Actors Guild, but leave us be honest for a moment. They walked into this with eyes wide shut, convinced that they had the whip hand, and now, they’re out of options and out of luck. Either they agree with AMPTP, or they go on strike for years upon and discover…
…NO ONE CARES!!
Let’s carry on with the honesty angle, kids, and discover that there’s a serious problem in Hollywood moviemaking right now. The star system that exists right now funnels massive amounts of cash to a handful of people, and now these people are fighting to protect their turf. Meanwhile, everyone else is playing ball and they’ll find themselves with much bigger slices of pie–slices that formerly went to SAG.
‘Scuse me if I can’t quite cry for the multimillionaires, Argentina.
It’s gonna be an absolute bloodbath for SAG, folks, so enjoy the trivia on similar bloodbaths at Kwanzoo.
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Hollywood got problems? I thought they always make tonnes of money without any problem..
Well, with all that money at stake, nobody wants to be the one at fault if a studio loses millions making some terrible flop.
Question, though, Steve. What’s your take on this?
“While many people may think that the actors making the biggest ruckus are the ones with the least to lose; closer parsing of the facts reveals a deeper truth. According to a recent Los Angeles Times article, annual earnings are less than $28,100 for 90.8% of its members. While many people would be fine earning around 30K for doing what they love, closer scrutiny reveals that annual earnings for 72.1% is less than $5,000.”
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/861315/sag_strike_looms_by_comparisons_smaller.html?page=2&cat=2
A good point that often goes unmentioned, Matt. Though the star system allows for a bare handful actors to be monstrously overpaid, most actors are chronically underpaid. We know them–the guy who’s trying to get in, the girl who’s taking topless parts just to stay on camera. They’re all members of SAG, because they’re all trying to become the next monstrously overpaid star. And that, of course, is half the problem with the system.
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