2023-07-19 06:31:30
American actor Tom Cruise is negotiating with Hollywood studio managers in an attempt to reach an agreement on the crisis between screenwriters and actors on the one hand and Hollywood studios on the other, as Hollywood is witnessing a double protest movement unprecedented since 1960.
Last Thursday, the leaders of the Hollywood Actors Union voted to join the screenwriters in their first joint strike in more than six decades.
Actors and screenwriters are calling for an improvement in their salaries, which have become very low in the streaming era.
They are also seeking to obtain guarantees that prevent the use of artificial intelligence programs, whether to write scripts for works, or to reproduce their voices and images. The actors’ strike is a severe blow to the sector.
The strike led to the suspension of work in all Hollywood studios, and prevented the actors from taking trips and attending promotional shows for their films in international festivals such as the “Toronto” festival, which is scheduled to be held from September 7-17, and the “Venice” festival, which is scheduled to be held from August 30 to August. September 9 next.
The strike also resulted in the actors not being able to attend film releases.
The union sometimes seeks the help of stars, workers, and experienced people in facing crises, and concluded with the help of the motor movie star Cruz, who has been negotiating with the two parties for nearly 6 weeks, hoping to stop the “bleeding of Hollywood losses.”
Hollywood on hold (Shutterstock)
effect and warning
Cruz warned the American Screen Actors Guild of television and radio artists regarding the potential impact of the strike on the movie theater market, which is still recovering from the recession caused by the Corona pandemic.
Cruz himself is one of those whose businesses were hit by the strike, and he has already stopped promoting his new movie, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, which has grossed $80 million at the domestic box office since its debut. Last week, UK production will stop with the second part of the movie.
Actors are deployed daily around Hollywood studios in Los Angeles in a state of strike, which is expected to cause a loss of billions of dollars for the film and television industry inside and outside Hollywood.
Tom Cruise himself is one of those whose work was damaged by the strike (Getty Images)
A number of top Hollywood stars have announced their support for the strike, including George Clooney, Matt Damon, Margot Robbie, Jeremy Renner and Jamie Lee Curtis.
The crisis arose between the union – which includes screenwriters and artists – once morest the background of the Hollywood studios’ use of artificial intelligence, which is expected to dispense with many of the union’s members, which number 160,000 writers and actors.
The Hollywood strike is a “nightmare” for the organizers of the festivals that will be held next fall, as well as for the producers of films scheduled to be shown in the coming months, especially following the failure of the first round of contract negotiations between the Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) and the “Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers” (AMPTP). that ended last week.
A red carpet without stars at the Toronto Film Festival due to the Hollywood strike (French)
Double losses
The losses resulting from the Hollywood strike will not depend on artistic production in the United States of America alone, but will extend beyond borders.
The Toronto International Film Festival is one of the events likely to lose big. While preparations are underway for its launch, none of the film teams to be promoted at its concerts can confirm their attendance, as the union requires its members not to attend film promotion in the event of a strike.
Just a report Posted on Canada’s CBC website, Toronto Festival officials said the impact of the strike was “undeniable”.
Eric Tesch, director of programming for REEL Canada, a non-profit organization dedicated to showing Canadian films in schools, asserts that a star-less festival cannot justify the high cost of its events, while Canadian film producer Martin Katz points out that what is happening Hollywood will affect enthusiasm for the Canadian festival if it continues next September.
emergency plan
The director of the Venice International Film Festival, Alberto Barbera, has confirmed V.I remarks He expressed his readiness for what he called Plan B in the event of a shortage of stars who were to travel to Venice to promote their films, and said, “Let’s be ready for anything and take nothing for granted.”
The promotional poster for the Venice Festival 2022 (communication sites)
The festival director asked the programmers to consider the 80th edition of the event a “purely European festival”.
Barbera did not reach the stage of complete despair from resolving the crisis and the strike stopped, as he said, following all, “Let us try to find out what the American producers and directors intend to do, and we will be ready with plan (B).”
The Venice Festival relies heavily on the presence of Hollywood talents, especially for the next session, such as “Zendaya”, the American singer and actress, and the heroine of the opening film “Challengers” by Italian director Luca Guadagnino, who is the star of her opening ceremony, but the continuation of the strike will prevent her from attending.
“We have to understand what the producers want to do, and then decide how to move forward,” says Guadagnino, who is currently working between Italy and France on a new film.
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