No deal on Hollywood actors contract, strike vote can be held Thursday morning

By Associated Press

LOS ANGELES: The union representing movie and tv actors says no deal has been reached with studios and streaming companies and its management will vote on whether or not to strike later Thursday.

The Screen Actors Guild -American Federation of Television and Radio Artists stated early Thursday that its choice on whether or not to affix already putting screenwriters can be weighed upon by management at a gathering later Thursday.

If the actors go on strike, it is going to be the primary time since 1960 that actors and writers picket movie and tv productions.

The actors’ guild launched an announcement early Thursday saying that its deadline for negotiations to conclude had ended with out a contract. The assertion got here hours after this 12 months’s Emmy nominations, recognizing the very best work on tv, had been introduced.

“The companies have refused to meaningfully engage on some topics and on others completely stonewalled us. Until they do negotiate in good faith, we cannot begin to reach a deal,” stated Fran Drescher, the star of “The Nanny” who’s now the actors’ guild president. There was no speedy phrase from the studios’ negotiating group.

The actors’ guild has beforehand licensed a strike by an almost 98% margin.

If the actors strike, they may formally be part of screenwriters on the picket traces exterior studios and filming places in a bid to get higher phrases from studios and streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon.

Members of the Writers Guild of America have been on strike since early May, slowing the manufacturing of movie and tv sequence on each coasts and in manufacturing centres like Atlanta.

Issues in negotiations embrace the unregulated use of synthetic intelligence and the consequences on residual pay introduced on by the streaming ecosystem that has emerged in recent times.

Actors have joined writers on picket traces for weeks in solidarity. An actors’ strike would forestall performers from engaged on units or selling their tasks.

Whether the forged of Christopher Nolan’s movie “Oppenheimer” attends Thursday’s London premiere hangs within the steadiness of whether or not the actors strike.

Attending a photograph occasion on Wednesday, star Matt Damon stated that whereas everybody hoped a strike might be averted, many actors want a good contract to outlive.

“We ought to protect the people who are kind of on the margins,” Damon informed the Associated Press. “And 26,000 bucks a year is what you have to make to get your health insurance. And there are a lot of people whose residual payments are what carry them across that threshold. And if those residual payments dry up, so does their health care. And that’s absolutely unacceptable. We can’t have that. So, we got to figure out something that is fair.”

The looming strike has forged a shadow over the upcoming seventy fifth Emmys. Nominations had been introduced Wednesday, and the strike was on the thoughts of many nominees.

“People are standing up and saying, ‘This doesn’t really work, and people need to be paid fairly,’” Oscar-winner Jessica Chastain, who was nominated for her first Emmy Award on Wednesday for enjoying Tammy Wynette in “George & Tammy,” informed the AP. “It is very clear that there are certain streamers that have really kind of changed the way we work and the way that we have worked, and the contracts really haven’t caught up to the innovation that’s happened.”

LOS ANGELES: The union representing movie and tv actors says no deal has been reached with studios and streaming companies and its management will vote on whether or not to strike later Thursday.

The Screen Actors Guild -American Federation of Television and Radio Artists stated early Thursday that its choice on whether or not to affix already putting screenwriters can be weighed upon by management at a gathering later Thursday.

If the actors go on strike, it is going to be the primary time since 1960 that actors and writers picket movie and tv productions.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );

The actors’ guild launched an announcement early Thursday saying that its deadline for negotiations to conclude had ended with out a contract. The assertion got here hours after this 12 months’s Emmy nominations, recognizing the very best work on tv, had been introduced.

“The companies have refused to meaningfully engage on some topics and on others completely stonewalled us. Until they do negotiate in good faith, we cannot begin to reach a deal,” stated Fran Drescher, the star of “The Nanny” who’s now the actors’ guild president. There was no speedy phrase from the studios’ negotiating group.

The actors’ guild has beforehand licensed a strike by an almost 98% margin.

If the actors strike, they may formally be part of screenwriters on the picket traces exterior studios and filming places in a bid to get higher phrases from studios and streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon.

Members of the Writers Guild of America have been on strike since early May, slowing the manufacturing of movie and tv sequence on each coasts and in manufacturing centres like Atlanta.

Issues in negotiations embrace the unregulated use of synthetic intelligence and the consequences on residual pay introduced on by the streaming ecosystem that has emerged in recent times.

Actors have joined writers on picket traces for weeks in solidarity. An actors’ strike would forestall performers from engaged on units or selling their tasks.

Whether the forged of Christopher Nolan’s movie “Oppenheimer” attends Thursday’s London premiere hangs within the steadiness of whether or not the actors strike.

Attending a photograph occasion on Wednesday, star Matt Damon stated that whereas everybody hoped a strike might be averted, many actors want a good contract to outlive.

“We ought to protect the people who are kind of on the margins,” Damon informed the Associated Press. “And 26,000 bucks a year is what you have to make to get your health insurance. And there are a lot of people whose residual payments are what carry them across that threshold. And if those residual payments dry up, so does their health care. And that’s absolutely unacceptable. We can’t have that. So, we got to figure out something that is fair.”

The looming strike has forged a shadow over the upcoming seventy fifth Emmys. Nominations had been introduced Wednesday, and the strike was on the thoughts of many nominees.

“People are standing up and saying, ‘This doesn’t really work, and people need to be paid fairly,’” Oscar-winner Jessica Chastain, who was nominated for her first Emmy Award on Wednesday for enjoying Tammy Wynette in “George & Tammy,” informed the AP. “It is very clear that there are certain streamers that have really kind of changed the way we work and the way that we have worked, and the contracts really haven’t caught up to the innovation that’s happened.”