John Dellaporta @JohnDellaporta Twitter profile

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4 years

Oh look what a shocking unexpected result

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Finland’s two-year test of universal basic income concluded that it doesn't seem to disincentivise working, and benefits recipients’ mental and financial wellbeing

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SAG-AFTRA is chipping its way up the ladder. I suspect Lionsgate and Sony are studying this closely. Significantly, AMC has a streaming platform, which means they are the first platform to agree to 2% profit allocation and data-sharing. A HUGE win.

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AMC Networks have reached an interim agreement with SAG-AFTRA to resume filming The Walking Dead spinoffs and Interview with the Vampire.

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@will_thad @DerrickLemos @meredithdclark And in between, Gen X had the “business dad” genre, where parents actually came home or quit the big deal to go to their kids’ piano concert!

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The #WICKED movie was ten days away from wrapping. Trust me, the studios had NO idea we would actually go through with the strike. That’s why they’re panicking. #SAGAFTRAstrong

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The buried lede in this story: it’s the shutting down of the international shoots that’s REALLY scaring the AMPTP. That was the backup plan, the loophole around the WGA. If SAG•AFTRA strikes, they’ve got NOTHING filling the fridge, even if they shouldn’t be shooting it anyway.

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Hollywood CEOs and Industry Insiders Seek Federal Mediation to Help Avert SAG-AFTRA Strike (EXCLUSIVE)

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@morninggloria That’s…a full-time job. A full-blown labor law violation!

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It’s so bizarre to be living in a world where another studio might be distributing a Looney Tunes movie because Warner Bros, doesn’t know how to sell it. SO weird.

Film Updates

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After initially shelving it for a tax write-off, Warner Bros. will reportedly now let the filmmakers of ‘COYOTE VS. ACME’ shop the movie to other potential distributors following backlash to their decision. ()

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That’s $276 a year for each user, by the way. The thing that blew up negotiations last week? SAG-AFTRA asked for 57 cents of that. #SagAftraStrong

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Netflix Raising U.S. Prices Yet Again, Premium Plan Now Costs $23/Month

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The Lincoln Project is ostensibly a Republican Never-Trump collective. So the fact that they’re going after the people in the party who will surely be steering the “post-Trump rebranding” effort is notable, higher stakes, and powerful.

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@JenaFriedman I almost retweeted this without realizing it was a joke. Wait, is it a joke?

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@IsaacFitzgerald You know in hindsight the fact that “Bad Boys” has been their theme song for 30+ years...

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@BrentBozell You literally spent three months trying to mount a coup d’etat that culminated in the first raid on the Capitol since The War of 1812.

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@CNBC Feels like the buried lede here is that immunization records have been necessary for travel for like, ever

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@WesleyLowery Children’s entertainment writers are deeply underrated. They have to be so concise, so fundamental, so simple, and yet must do so without talking down or being dishonest.

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@VanTheBrand Can’t believe they didn’t go for it. It’s Community Paintball meets John Wick, with a 100m budget, it’s a free pass to print money!

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@JudiciaryGOP You gotta be fucking kidding me

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Wow. Pretty brutal statement of alliance from ChatGPT in the current contract dispute. #WGAStrong

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@jbillinson @meakoopa Also the hilarity of Musk acting like he’s personally shelling 8/month per account and not just like, flipping a switch

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Remember this dude? Deplatforming works.

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@SheRatesDogs And then he pops over to TruthSocial to complain that no one likes him

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@zakiscorner That is certainly a list of Batman titles in an order!

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There’s a whole lot of “Midwestern nice” happening in what I can only assume is actually a brutal series of burns.

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Wow. Democrat @GreenfieldIowa was asked what a bushel of corn costs. She nailed it down to the PENNY. When Republican @joniernst was asked the cost of soybeans, well... not so much.

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This is actually hilarious to me. These companies already have a trade association - the AMPTP, an organization whose name you’ve, well, heard a lot lately. They’re basically trying a lobbying rebrand because the optics around their previous trade group became so toxic.

Variety

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A new trade group — the Streaming Innovation Alliance — brings together Netflix, Max and more to promote their interests to politicians and government entities. It marks the first time competing streamers have banded together in a unified lobbying front.

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@downwithlcc “A little joke from the first act turns out to have been VERY IMPORTANT PLOT INFORMATION” I call this “Pulling a Pixar”

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@gtrmal54 It offered us a sign that addressing a climate problem in a timely way can reverse it, which is different than the “everything is totally fine if we just ignore it” point you seem to be making.

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What frustrates me is the growing obviousness that the AMPTP itself is an entity that exists solely to union bust. Carol Lombardini is not authorized to make deals, and this strike will only end when the studio heads come in to directly bargain. Everything else is waiting.

David Slack

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As expected, the studios have used today’s meeting as an excuse to push out dishonest talking points aimed at breaking union solidarity. Don’t let it work. The WGA will tell us what really happened, but let’s decode the bullshit in this “article.” 🧵

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Another datapoint: the strike caused BOB IGER to commit an optics blunder. Genuine bedlam! #SAGAFTRAstrong

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Please everyone remember that before the strike, completed seasons of television were already being “pre-cancelled” and written off for tax breaks. They can try to blame contraction on the strike, but it’s really the terrible streaming business model.

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Another datapoint: the day before the strike they offered a huge compromise on AI, a previous no-fly zone. It didn’t account for the background scanning issue so we didn’t take it. #SAGAFTRAstrong

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@KamalaHarris His last message to us was excitement for you. Let’s fulfill it.

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The greatest absurdity of it is that a doorbell is literally someone TELLING YOU THEY ARE THERE, it’s the opposite of intrusion or threat. Genuinely insane to meet your installed “polite indicator sound” with murder threats.

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Breaking: SAG-AFTRA NegCom takes two days to read 500 page counter offer, after AMPTP takes six days to read previous counter. Cut it with the aggressive framing, Variety.

Variety

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SAG-AFTRA May Take Another Day to Respond to Studios' 'Best and Final' Offer

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@jillybobww Last year a movie nominated for Best Picture was a 70-plus year old writer/director working out shit from his parents’ divorce! We are a PATIENT people!

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After Bob Iger’s early gaffe (and a ghoulish anonymous executive statement), the CEOs realized that they needed to perform empathy to the media and public. But just remember: we’re still on the picket line because it is them, not us, who have not returned to the bargaining table.

Variety

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Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon CEO Brian Robbins on the strikes: “I’m a guy who went to my mailbox and got residuals. I know how important that is to actors and writers. There has to be a way forward, and hopefully we’ll find it soon.”

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@jennyyangtv Just the POWER of him really giving the guy every chance to Not Do This and that final resigned “I’m sorry” 👏👏👏

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I’m grateful for everyone debunking this incendiary headline, but it reminds me of an AMPTP miscalculation: Misinformation can be useful in dispiriting folks, but WGA and SAG•AFTRA are not gen-pop. We’re Very Online, talk to each other, and find out fast when something’s a lie.

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WGA & AMPTP Can’t Agree To Resume Negotiations; Strike To Go On Indefinitely

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@DanielAdamant @raccoonmum Found Otto’s alt account

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@jasondashbailey Like, you can’t even get one page into Romeo and Juliet without reading some dudes talking about busting hymens!

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@GettyImages So in other words, the Getty stamp, once synonymous with “real, easily accessible, fully disseminated photograph of a person or event”, now can no longer be trusted as such?

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@MaraWilson I was waving a pretend glow stick at a party inside a video game

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@THR Sounds pretty low once you do the annual budget math! Someone pointed out this is six guys each taking a 2% pay cut.

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Feels like this will get some usage on here.

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@ComfortablySmug @kylegriffin1 Ah yes, look at all that conservative land, except for the spots where all the people live.

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Congratulations to HBO for 94 Emmy nominations and still having your branding considered a deterrent for “MAX”.

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@thunderson23 @ellehardy Why do they always spell it the weird way?!

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@RepStefanik This framing is hilarious because it’s basically you trying to say “some people should be above the law” in a way regular people would support.

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We’re better off without you, Mein Hair.

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This is not complicated. On August 11, the AMPTP finally made their first full counteroffer to the WGA proposal, after more than three months of striking. On August 15, the WGA responded with a new counteroffer. On August 22, the AMPTP said, “it’s the Aug 11 deal or nothing.”

Variety

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Writers Strike Hits Four-Month Mark as Resolve on Both Sides Hardens, Complicating the Return to Negotiations

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@MartyMakary I can’t tell where the seriousness in the post actually is. Are you saying a bear going on a murderous rampage is aspirational behavior children will seek to imitate? Are you saying the bear is the protagonist and killing people is “good”, showing some degree of misanthropy?

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@jaketapper Imagine bragging that you had people so worried about the world on a daily basis they couldn’t stop hypervigilantly watching the news

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@vashikoo One of the most important aspects of filmmaking is each shot contains exactly the information intended and that nothing actually “exists” outside of it. You’re basically using a computer to make fan art around a composed picture and robbing that picture of story in the process.

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@kibblesmith I just had the same thought. Netflix’s biggest blockbuster, ticking time bomb of the young cast aging, like, this is pretty much the ballgame!

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Any reporting on the continuation of the strike MUST include the fact that the WGA countered the AMPTP’s August 11 counteroffer on August 15, which the studios subsequently ignored and called the 8/11 their final offer, rather than responding to the 8/15 counteroffer.

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@SternlyRoss @scottderrickson It’s a great technique! Accents require a lot of thinking to turn off and on, so actors doing roles without their native ones often maintain in order to keep it second nature and keep their thoughts on the “acting” stuff :)

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@benshapiro Your party literally doesn’t have a platform.

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@brian_blase “I consider you subhuman and view you as a possession” ain’t exactly a hot opening line

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Something I think is quite brilliant about both Knives Out and Glass Onion is Spoiler In both cases the most obvious person did it but you’re not told what “it” even is until the movie already has you under the spell of its game, and I adore that.

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*George Costanza voice* It was a TUCK, Jerry!

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@nytimes Um

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Star Wars, man. It’s big enough for both.

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I love how today’s Twitter main character is just inspiring people to share their favorite naughty bits of Shakespeare

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@MaraWilson Her work in Game Night is legit one of my favorite comedic performances

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@DrPaulGosar @Cernovich Is this the “count them all” riot or the “stop counting them” riot? I keep getting mixed up.

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@THR Sounds like a good argument in favor of getting a deal made, eh AMPTP?

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@CorrectingMatch @NoLieWithBTC @readTPA It’s not about believing, it’s about people who agree with her going “she sure got’em with that plausibly deniable response”

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Netflix not only led the industry into the residual-free streaming model, it is now introducing ad revenue into that model, which subsidized network residuals, and is refusing to offer residuals in their contracts. Real “have our cake, eat our cake, let them eat cake” stuff.

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Netflix Yanks Basic Ad-Free Plan, Nudging Users To Ad-Supported Tier

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@ZackBornstein @anylaurie16 Yes, AND there’s always been a demand for “out-of-touch Hollywood elites” narratives…neverminding that most industry talent reached prosperity by retaining partial ownership of their work via union standards that…are good actually and should be emulated in more industries!

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The background actors, too, will be safe from “scanned” sessions being used in perpetuity, too. Eventually, AMC will have a competitive advantage over the big AMPTP studios, which puts pressure on them to accede, or make their own interim deals. This is, again, an enormous win.

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@HeartlandSignal These are the same people who believe men are entitled to sex, stop contraceptive and abortion access, and wonder why the birth rate is cratering. Make it make sense.

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If these shows stream without an AMPTP final agreement (which is the result of a prolonged strike), the actors involved, down to the lowliest of day players, stand to see enormous improvements in residual compensation, AI security, and more.

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@rob_sheridan @btaylor I assume this is the likeliest outcome anyway. “Enforcing the deal” is Twitter’s defense and their position as aggrieved party, since Musk bailing manipulates and crashes their stock. If they sue (they should) they need to be intent on following through until settled.

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@THR And yet I have no doubt he would observe the same stricture from a fight director as gospel.

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@Variety Please stop just letting the studios dictate your copy and rhetoric. Many writers have waxed long and patiently on why staffing minimums matter. These stories will not weaken resolve, they only make the AMPTP seem desperate and in knowledge that they’re wrong.

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@Srirachachau I’m Greg. “Surely my self-serving and morally questionable behavior is ok if I just act with total honesty every time I make one of those choices?”

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@mwoo713 @downwithlcc In the case of Pixar at least, Wall-E having little backup treads, Riley’s imagination having an Imaginary Boyfriend Dispenser, Dory speaks Whale, “falling with style”, etc

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@bennyjohnson “Say you know nothing about movie sets without saying you know nothing about movie sets”

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@MaryGKeller @washingtonpost It’s not so much dunking on Hank 8 so much as pointing out the CoE was literally founded in opposition to this declaration.

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@ejdickson Isn’t the whole point of dischord that it’s NOT visible by everyone though? That everything is opt-in?

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The props for the American Girl “historical” 90s dolls are Book-It paraphernalia and I am withering into dust as I look at this

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Oh boy, they are really coming for us.

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@Michael_Rose @ashleyn1cole Based on the sound bite from the anon studio source, all they had planned was to fall back on the old “entitled ‘rich’ actors” trope.

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@JFrankensteiner This will make a timely new demand item for WGA and DGA negotiations!

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@KairoKenshi @SiddhantBaner10 @the12sampayne @JayJurden Basically “for streaming to not be able to work around basic protections that network and features have had for decades”. Check out @WGAWest ’s thread for a great rundown of the bargaining fault lines.

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To all the parent companies that bought movie studios: I beg you, if you don’t want to make movies, just like, sell the studio. Nobody made you do this!

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@MJMcKean At this point there’s not even really a reason to have blanks, which can also kill.

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@ChickenDanCO @will_thad @DerrickLemos @meredithdclark Oh Hook is the business daddiest movie ever. Hook, Liar Liar, etc

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@nancywi01838760 How do you square this with the fact that men can always have sex for pleasure, whether married or not, and can only be forced to deal with a child if they have a conscience?

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@ndsinnott I have to assume there’s also an ammo-less way to give actors kickback to play off of by now, too, right?

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@the_year_is_one @stingo__cam That’s PhD-level education in a nutshell, actually

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@TheCriticalDri2 If only there was a speech in a movie articulating such a concept

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Everyone deserves one friend who has watched whatever you just finished watching.

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@ItsDanSheehan @julie_bush It’s like in Hunger Games. “Bread and Circus” falls apart when Circus starts fighting for Bread.

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Let me this clear up: Martin Short’s bag is playing annoying people. He’s a great comedian because he successfully taps into the exact truths that make humans annoying. He’s a brilliant ACTOR because despite this, he makes you fall in love with these annoying people anyway.

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Unlike the sign, the tweet is still up.

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@TVFan43 @Bossip Those pay more than $50k each for like a day or two of work

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@DEADLINE You really should drop this strategy. Writers and actors are way too online and mostly follow each other and our union reps, so it’s really hard to break us via misinformation. Some debunks the headline before most of us can even click through.

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Each new interim agreement gives SAG•AFTRA more bargaining power. The AMPTP is NOT unified, and have wildly varying business models. The studios that need content will make deals to keep up with competition. Eventually the rest will have to either pay up or stay on the sideline.

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Someone make a Does the Dog Die-style site for the lock-in moment of every major “it takes a few episodes” critical darling...