Actor's Strike

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/4/08 at 4:58pm

If the entertainment industry isn't dead, this will kill it for sure.

"Filmmakers are reluctant to launch any production that cannot be completed before the expiration of the Screen Actors Guild's major film and TV contract on June 30 -- a date being treated as the union's de facto strike deadline."


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[Calvin]

Posted: 3/4/08 at 5:02pm

Look at the silver lining. "Transformers 2" is being postponed.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 3/4/08 at 5:08pm

What's more annoying about this strike is that actors of the caliber of Tom Hanks, Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep are asking the SAG leaders to start negotiations early to avoid a strike, and the leaders are saying that it's too soon for that. Seriously???
I hope it doesn't affect the TV shows again. And will this mean NINE won't be starting production any time soon?

[nygrl23]

Posted: 3/4/08 at 5:17pm

Another question is, how many actors are willing to cross the picket lines for work? The SAG strike in 2000 demonstrated that the answer to that is 'quite a few.'

[tazber]

Posted: 3/4/08 at 5:24pm

The last time the struck the studios recruited a bunch of fresh faces to fill the gap, most notably Collin Ferret (I think that play on words was Elphaba's, btw).

Just so we all know what we have to look forward to.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/4/08 at 5:37pm

It means any movie actor with any sense is scrambling to book a Broadway show.

[nitsua]

Posted: 3/4/08 at 5:48pm

So Julia Roberts is coming back? Yippee.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 3/4/08 at 5:55pm

Dakota Fanning in Annie, also starring Sarah Jessica Parker as Miss Hannigan

George Clooney in Private Lives

Tilda Swinton in Hedda Gabler

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/4/08 at 6:01pm

I am getting used to no new shows on TV

I have so many DVD's they could go on strike & stay there forever

[Unknown User]

Posted: 3/4/08 at 6:15pm

This is HORRIBLE, and clearly, all Hilary's fault.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/4/08 at 6:17pm

I thought it was all the fault of GWB.

[nygrl23]

Posted: 3/4/08 at 6:21pm

You know what, Joe? I think you _are_ Hillary Clinton.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/4/08 at 6:25pm

The secret is out now.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 3/4/08 at 8:10pm

I am getting used to no new shows on TV

I have so many DVD's they could go on strike & stay there forever

Brilliant.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 3/4/08 at 8:13pm

Trust me, the actors do not want a strike. The industry hasn't even begun to recover from the writers' strike. Actors like to work - they've chosen this career for love. They're hungry now - creatively as well as financially.

Edited for bad apostrophe placement.

Updated On: 3/4/08 at 08:13 PM

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 3/4/08 at 8:16pm

No one wants the actors to strike either.
My ex is a film accountant and he worked all through the WGA strike, thank God, but he told me the strike that would leave him jobless for a while would be the SGA strike. I really hope the leaders start negotiations way before any strike occurs.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/4/08 at 8:23pm

Glad you understood my meaning Foster