So how is the Writer's Strike going?

[The Cool Thatguy]

Is there like an official news blackout? Because I haven't really seen anything about progress, one way or the other

[thwhtGuardian]

Is there like an official news blackout? Because I haven't really seen anything about progress, one way or the other

No news blackout, just not a lot to report as the strike is still ongoing but nothing has changed as the studious have not set a date to sit down to talk again.

[chicago_bastard]

One must hope that SAG also decides to strike come end of June. That would force studios' hands since without actors literally every project has to be halted. Actors wouldn't even be allowed to do promotion, so even current releases would be impacted by having no red carpets and press junkets. Studios obviously wouldn't be amused and couldn't continue their current ghosting strategy for long.

[thwhtGuardian]

One must hope that SAG also decides to strike come end of June. That would force studios' hands since without actors literally every project has to be halted. Actors wouldn't even be allowed to do promotion, so even current releases would be impacted by having no red carpets and press junkets. Studios obviously wouldn't be amused and couldn't continue their current ghosting strategy for long.

I'm hoping they stand with the writers

[nx01a]

If the actors join in, I'm even more worried about how AI for movie and TV use will be pushed. ChatGPT to 'write'/cobble together a Franken-script plus AI creating uncanny valley characters? Scary.

[Styles]

Dermot Mulroney is in support of the writers.

Dermot Mulroney Walks Off ‘The View’ During Segment to Show Support for Writers Strike (EXCLUSIVE)

[Captain Craig]

Well I'm now in S2 of The Flight Attendant and that has been great to this point.
The stirke allows me time to work on my backlog.

[Agent Z]

Dispatches From The Picket Lines, Day 59: Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin & Dolly Drag Queens Back Writers In L.A.

https://deadline.com/2023/06/jane-fo...ix-1235427447/

[CaptainEurope]

How Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav Became Public Enemy Number One in Hollywood

It must have been quite a shock to the captain of industry—standing at the lectern at his alma matter, resplendent in his red-and-black graduation regalia—when he realized the Boston University Class of 2023 was booing him. David Zaslav, president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, was delivering the commencement address, recalling how the late General Electric CEO Jack Welch once told him, “If you want to be successful, you’re going to have to figure out how to get along with everyone—and that includes difficult people.”

But instead of listening to his pearls of wisdom, the students were heckling him. Others had turned their backs to the stage. Now more were chanting, “Pay your writers,” as Zaslav, a studio head, was one of the oft-invoked villains of the striking Writers Guild of America.

He tried to press on with his story, continuing to quote Welch: “Some people will be looking for a fight.” The booing continued.

Zaslav later issued a statement thanking BU for the invitation, and insisting, “as I have often said, I am immensely supportive of writers and hope the strike is resolved soon and in a way that they feel recognizes their value.” But he had been humiliated, openly and unapologetically, and while he was duly kowtowed after the fact—BU President Robert Brown publicly apologized for the incident, blaming it on “cancel culture”—he must’ve wondered, somewhere in the back of his mind, how it had come to this.

In a relatively short period of time, David Zaslav has become perhaps the most hated man in Hollywood. Few people who weren’t industry insiders even knew his name two years ago, when Discovery merged with WarnerMedia to become Warner Bros. Discovery. Zaszlav had been CEO of Discovery Communications since 2006, where he oversaw the transition from, in his words, “no longer a cable company, (but) a content company.” What that meant, from a viewer’s perspective, was Discovery’s transition from educational programming to reality slop—which is, of course, a much more lucrative business model.
...
Meanwhile, the merger of the HBOMax and Discovery+ services continued apace, with a bizarre rebranding to simply “Max,” consciously choosing to remove its most prestigious and identifiable piece of branding. (It was akin to Disney+ renaming itself “Plus.”) It was almost as if the reality-skewing CEO was ashamed of the streamer’s affiliation with high-quality, high-profile scripted programming—a perception further confirmed when Max launched in May.

Zaslav's lawyers had GQ take this article down from the main web site, so you better read the rest of this at the MSN link I provided quickly.

[CaptainEurope]

And the link is dead. I'm hoping the Streisand Effect will happen here.

[CTTT]

And the link is dead. I'm hoping the Streisand Effect will happen here.

What's a Streisand effect?

[CTTT]

How Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav Became Public Enemy Number One in Hollywood



Zaslav's lawyers had GQ take this article down from the main web site, so you better read the rest of this at the MSN link I provided quickly.

So, Zaslav's lawyers are trying to prove what...defamation of character or libel? I mean removing content and tax write offs prove that he's in solidarity with writers and residuals? Riiight

[Captain Craig]

What's a Streisand effect?

Ditto? What does that refer to?

[thwhtGuardian]

Ditto? What does that refer to?

It's a sort of meme-name for an action where someone wants to make something or themselves less conspicuous but the act actually draws more attention. It's named after Streisand because she tried to suppress a picture of her home in Malibu from being used in a report on coastal erosion because she didn't want people to see her home, but by trying to hide the image of her home it actually brought more attention to it.

[chicago_bastard]

https://deadline.com/2023/07/writers...rs-1235434335/

According to Deadline studios and streamers want to wait until writers go broke and then start negotiations out of a position of strength.