you dare to speak ill of the one and only Yelena!!!Sea Speed said:
/pulls pin
Florence Pugh is not attractive in the slightest.
/ducks
Writers Guild strike 2023
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maroon barchetta said:Sea Speed said:
/pulls pin
Florence Pugh is not attractive in the slightest.
/ducks
She looked good in Hawkeye and in the Black Widow movie.
I can't even really tell which person is her in that photo.
Exactly.
Florence Pugh is the one in all white, standing next to Callie, who is on the end. She was just a super nice person. Very down to earth and was taking pictures and signing stuff for whoever asked her.
This one guy even stopped his car on the side of the road, jumped out, asked her to sign something, which she did. Then he said "wait wait", ran back to his car got his phone ran back to her and she took some selfies with him. It was crazy how patient she was the entire time.
I already liked her before I saw these interactions, but now I'm definitely a big fan because of how genuinely nice she is.
This one guy even stopped his car on the side of the road, jumped out, asked her to sign something, which she did. Then he said "wait wait", ran back to his car got his phone ran back to her and she took some selfies with him. It was crazy how patient she was the entire time.
I already liked her before I saw these interactions, but now I'm definitely a big fan because of how genuinely nice she is.
Is this still going on?
kind of crazy that life has gone on around the world the last 100 days.
kind of crazy that life has gone on around the world the last 100 days.
How is it crazy that life has gone on? Its a writers strike, and while all of us here on this board value entertainment, its not like workers at all of the national powerplants decided to go on strike. Of course life goes on.
I assume that's the point. I doubt anyone outside of Hollywood thinks about this strike at all ever. I don't see how the writers have any leverage at all when people are probably fine streaming 40 seasons of Big Bang Theory or whatever it is normal people watch.Sea Speed said:
How is it crazy that life has gone on? Its a writers strike, and while all of us here on this board value entertainment, its not like workers at all of the national powerplants decided to go on strike. Of course life goes on.
I feel like the writers picked a terrible time to start their strike. No one watches TV over the summer, so no one outside of Hollywood is going to care. Maybe some people will start to take an interest in a month, when new shows typically would start. I'm still not sure how much people outside Hollywood will care, though, because everyone I know has a long list of shows they haven't had time to get to yet.
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AustinAg2K said:
I feel like the writers picked a terrible time to start their strike. No one watches TV over the summer, so no one outside of Hollywood is going to care. Maybe some people will start to take an interest in a month, when new shows typically would start. I'm still not sure how much people outside Hollywood will care, though, because everyone I know has a long list of shows they haven't had time to get to yet.
Yep. This + football starting and I honestly probably wouldn't have noticed until next summer outside of this thread.
Rumors going around they will do a big song and dance wrapping this up on Labor Day.Some Junkie Cosmonaut said:AustinAg2K said:
I feel like the writers picked a terrible time to start their strike. No one watches TV over the summer, so no one outside of Hollywood is going to care. Maybe some people will start to take an interest in a month, when new shows typically would start. I'm still not sure how much people outside Hollywood will care, though, because everyone I know has a long list of shows they haven't had time to get to yet.
Yep. This + football starting and I honestly probably wouldn't have noticed until next summer outside of this thread.
uujm said:Rumors going around they will do a big song and dance wrapping this up on Labor Day.Some Junkie Cosmonaut said:AustinAg2K said:
I feel like the writers picked a terrible time to start their strike. No one watches TV over the summer, so no one outside of Hollywood is going to care. Maybe some people will start to take an interest in a month, when new shows typically would start. I'm still not sure how much people outside Hollywood will care, though, because everyone I know has a long list of shows they haven't had time to get to yet.
Yep. This + football starting and I honestly probably wouldn't have noticed until next summer outside of this thread.
Hollywood is out of ideas.
The AMPTP caved, finally asked the writers back to the bargaining table, and all indications are that the end of the WGA strike is currently being negotiated. SAG will then be next. The studios are desperate, the fall TV schedule is basically screwed, certain movies are having to move to the spring, their all important summer '24 slate is in jeopardy, and there's a general panic about stock prices soon to be effected. The dual strike is absolutely achieving its goals, and both the WGA and SAG are going to get favorable deals. But sure, they should have listened to a handful of rando business/entertainment experts on TexAgs about how they had no leverage and this wasn't the right time.
They know they can’t beat our negotiators in the negotiating room, so they’re trying to negotiate directly with us. Don’t let them.
— David Slack (@slack2thefuture) August 23, 2023
Writers are used to this slimy move. When we’re making a deal, producers will call us complaining our reps are crazy and asking for too much.
The AMPTP releasing the details of their offer to Deadline is disgusting and desperate. This is after they asked for and agreed to a media blackout by the way. Just awful union-busting tactics.
— Tyler Ruggeri (@t_ruggeri) August 23, 2023
Oh, and negotiating in bad faith by releasing deal points to the press you own as a means of applying pressure to the other side during a media blackout you yourself demanded is a surefire way to risk negotiations falling apart.
— Avishai ✡ Is On Strike (@avishaiw) August 23, 2023
Only one side is risking this. We see it.
Update on the AMPTP’s August 11th counteroffer #WGAstrong #WGAstrike https://t.co/S3HpK5zk6G
— Writers Guild of America West (@WGAWest) August 23, 2023
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Dear Members,
After 102 days of being on strike and of AMPTP silence, the companies began to bargain with us on August 11th, presenting us for the first time with a counteroffer.
We responded to their counter at the beginning of last week and engaged in further discussions throughout the week.
On Monday of this week, we received an invitation to meet with Bob Iger, Donna Langley, Ted Sarandos, David Zaslav and Carol Lombardini. It was accompanied by a message that it was past time to end this strike and that the companies were finally ready to bargain for a deal.
We accepted that invitation and, in good faith, met tonight, in hopes that the companies were serious about getting the industry back to work.
Instead, on the 113th day of the strike - and while SAG-AFTRA is walking the picket lines by our side - we were met with a lecture about how good their single and only counteroffer was.
We explained all the ways in which their counter's limitations and loopholes and omissions failed to sufficiently protect writers from the existential threats that caused us to strike in the first place. We told them that a strike has a price, and that price is an answer to all and not just some - of the problems they have created in the business.
But this wasn't a meeting to make a deal. This was a meeting to get us to cave, which is why, not twenty minutes after we left the meeting, the AMPTP released its summary of their proposals.
This was the companies' plan from the beginning - not to bargain, but to jam us. It is their only strategy - to bet that we will turn on each other.
Tomorrow we will send a more detailed description of the state of the negotiations. And we will see you all out on the picket lines and let the companies continue to see what labor power looks like.
In solidarity,
WGA Negotiating Committee
Not unexpected, and I still say this thing ends sooner rather than later. The studios are acting more desperate by the day.
I want this strike to end badly. For everyone. But it needs to end fairly and fundamentally and progressively.
— VeryNotGeoff (@VeryNotGeoff) August 23, 2023
But there is a part of me - just a tiny, childish, arsonist part of me - that wants this to drag until the parent corps release Q3 earnings data.
Last thing for tonight:
— VeryNotGeoff (@VeryNotGeoff) August 23, 2023
The AMPTP will never even accidentally realize how lucky they are that Writers are only asking for what we're owed rather than what we're actually worth.
Sleep well. Keep those fists up and doggedly circling the ring.
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Stay strong execs
Keep ****ting on the writers & actors
They'll come crawling back like the dogs they are eventually
Keep ****ting on the writers & actors
They'll come crawling back like the dogs they are eventually
Except for the fact that it was the studios who came crawling back, and the writers/actors literally haven't gone anywhere. Then again, you don't seem like someone concerned with lettings facts or accuracy get in the way of cheerleading for yacht owners and unethical mega corporations.
LOL on that guy, who thinks unions are anything other than a bunch of misguided morons, calling anybody stupid.
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LOL on that guy, who thinks unions are anything other than a bunch of misguided morons, calling anybody stupid.
Let alone CEOs of major corporations like Disney. They may not make the best decision 100% of the time, but they are anything but stupid.
aTmAg said:
LOL on that guy, who thinks unions are anything other than a bunch of misguided morons, calling anybody stupid.
My god, the unions are calling executives stupid?
I have worked with three unions before, and I've never met a lower qualified group of individuals. Completely incompetent and out of touch with reality.
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I don't see how the writers have any leverage at all when people are probably fine streaming 40 seasons of Big Bang Theory or whatever it is normal people watch.
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I'm still not sure how much people outside Hollywood will care, though, because everyone I know has a long list of shows they haven't had time to get to yet.
Always telling when all of the media propaganda goes only one way.
10% of writers and actors make 90% of the money. Same as it ever was.
10% of writers and actors make 90% of the money. Same as it ever was.
Not unexpected, except that 12 hours prior you assured everyone that the WGA and SAG had used the power of friendship to combine their powers Captain Planet-style and forced Bob "Looten Plunder" Iger and the AMPTP Eco-Villains to cave to their demands.TCTTS said:
Not unexpected, and I still say this thing ends sooner rather than later. The studios are acting more desperate by the day.
The AMPTP refused to speak to the WGA for over a hundred days. Then, after not speaking for months, and not budging on any of the primary negotiating points, the AMPTP finally asked to meet again. And when they did, they caved to every single demand - demands they previously said they'd never cave to. Clearly, this was due to SAG joining the strike, and the industry coming to a complete stand still, thus crippling the studios for weeks on end. The issue now is, they're working out the details of those demands. And neither side is going to go down without one last spat, thus the current shenanigans in the press. But overall, it's not rocket science, nor, again, was this unexpected. This whole thing *will* end relatively soon (I'm guessing sometime next month), because the studios have reached a point where they absolutely need it to. Thus, the strikes are working.
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Hollywood is out of ideas.
Underrated post.
Weird that in one breath people here can cheer these corporations faltering with "go woke, go broke" and in another breath encouraging the same corporations cheer them on for sticking it to writers.
Truth.
Forming consistent arguments beyond their reactionary, toddler-like emotional outbursts has never been their strong suit.
Depending on the day or the thread, Disney is evil, woke, and entitled - or - they're a bastion of capitalism, and should be applauded for sticking it to all those evil, woke, and entitled writers/actors.
Either way, this thread is like the bat signal for all the usual suspects, who hate the people who make the entertainment they can't keep from watching, and can't keep from posting about. The irony is they consistently feed all the Disneys, the writers, and the actors with more money, oxygen, and publicity, enabling the very people the usual suspects claim to hate so much.
Forming consistent arguments beyond their reactionary, toddler-like emotional outbursts has never been their strong suit.
Depending on the day or the thread, Disney is evil, woke, and entitled - or - they're a bastion of capitalism, and should be applauded for sticking it to all those evil, woke, and entitled writers/actors.
Either way, this thread is like the bat signal for all the usual suspects, who hate the people who make the entertainment they can't keep from watching, and can't keep from posting about. The irony is they consistently feed all the Disneys, the writers, and the actors with more money, oxygen, and publicity, enabling the very people the usual suspects claim to hate so much.
what if you think the value add of both sides of this argument is vastly overrated
I mean I guess the party who owns the streaming rights to Rockford Files has me beat so I'll own that
I mean I guess the party who owns the streaming rights to Rockford Files has me beat so I'll own that
I can respect that.
Disney IS all of those things.TCTTS said:
Disney is evil, woke, and entitled - or - they're a bastion of capitalism
As Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Of course, Emerson was also a proto-hippie, so what does he know.
The duality of man strikes again. You know, the Jungian thing.
The duality of man strikes again. You know, the Jungian thing.
Amen.
I find it hard to believe that the people who run some of the largest corporations in the world "have no ****ing clue what they are doing".
I get that it's been that constant rhetoric from the unions to rile up their members and keeping the faith but that's a dangerous row to hoe when you start underestimating your competition.
I get that it's been that constant rhetoric from the unions to rile up their members and keeping the faith but that's a dangerous row to hoe when you start underestimating your competition.
Legal Custodian said:
I find it hard to believe that the people who run some of the largest corporations in the world "have no ****ing clue what they are doing".
I get that it's been that constant rhetoric from the unions to rile up their members and keeping the faith but that's a dangerous row to hoe when you start underestimating your competition.
I think it's less not knowing what they are doing and more underestimating their opponents. The last time they faced such opposition was 1980 right? The only other time they had a joint WGA SAG-AFTRA was in the 60s. I don't think they realize how little of a choice many people have and how tired they are of being taken advantage of.
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