If actors want a union, so should you: Barbieheimer - Barbenheimer on picket lines

Christopher Edward Nolan CBE confirmed before the beginning of the “Oppenheimer” screening that the cast has left in solidarity with the SAG-AFTRA strike. Stars Cillian Murphy and Emily Olivia Laura Blunt left the Oppenheimer premiere as the strike began. Waiting: (following action by) Barbie cast such as Margot Elise Robbie and Ryan Thomas Gosling also a lot of casts.

Matthew “Matt” Paige Damon has revealed that the “Oppenheimer” cast discussed their strike strategy before hitting the movie’s red carpet premiere in London on Thursday.

“We talked about it,” Damon told. “Look, if it’s called now, everyone’s going to walk obviously in solidarity … Once the strike is officially called, [we’re walking]. That’s why we moved this [red carpet] up because we know the second it’s called, we’re going home.”

Damon added: “We gave the strike authorization. We voted 98% to 2% to do that because we know our leadership has our best interest at heart.”

“It’s really about working actors,” he continued. “It’s $26,000 to qualify for health coverage and a lot of people are on the margins and residual payments are getting them across that threshold. This isn’t an academic exercise. This is real life and death stuff. Hopefully we get to a resolution quickly. No one wants a work stoppage, but we’ve got to get a fair deal.”

Concerning the WGA and SAG strikes — wonder how (VERY) cheaper productions, labor, and especially in Asia fewer unions impact how streamers / studios think about longer term content strategy from non-US sources. Not count “massively cases” of rape in the shooting location in Asia, both because desire of sexuality or (purely) purposes for money, get a promotion (& then high[er] salaries).

It seems as if the creative economy in the US is facing challenges similar to what happened to American manufacturing when everything went overseas 30 years ago. That diverse, global films/TV are more welcomed by US audiences is good but there are unintended consequences.

As SAG-AFTRA announced their historic strike today, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the union’s chief negotiator, revealed that Hollywood studios proposed that they should get to own actor’s AI replicas — forever, without paying them another cent. SAG press conference is saying the AMPTP offered as a "groundbreaking" AI proposal in our best interests that background actors can be scanned for one day's work and their likenesses used forever. “The ‘double strike’ by both unions is the first since 1960, when the SAG was headed by actor and former US President Ronald Reagan. The last strike by actors took place in 1980.”

It’s annoying, at best, to see the networks bragging about their Emmy nominations while refusing to negotiate fairly with the writers who made those nominations possible. The sheer nerve of it all. There are no shows without writers.

The London carpet for Christopher Nolan’s atomic bomb thriller kicked off just before 5 p.m. local time, with a lot of nervous publicists and marketing executives looking anxiously at their phones and watches. In the event of an early strike, the entire cast planned to discreetly exit the carpet in Leicester Square.

Emily Blunt explain overwhelmed situation “obviously we stand we all of the actors and at whatever point it’s called, we’re going to be going home and standing together through it because I want everyone to get a fair deal.”

Whether she’ll be joining the picket line herself, the British star quipped, “Oh, I think so!” before being rushed down the line by her publicist.

Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh, who plays physicist Niels Henrik David Bohr in the film, “there are a lot of people here we did not want to disappoint, but we’re also in complete solidarity with our colleagues and what they’re doing,” he said. “I know they’ve worked diligently to achieve an agreement which is happening at a critical point in our industry. It’s important that we’re ready to be shoulder-to-shoulder with them as the situation develops.”

“The runtime is two minutes shorter than ‘Avengers: Endgame,’ so we cling to that,” he said. “I said to (producer) Emma Thomas very early on that it’s going to be a three-hour film. I have to write a script that reflects that. That was our conversation with the studio. It’s a big story and needs a big talent. It’s a 180-page script and it’s a $180 million movie,” Nolan said.

The cast worked the carpet for the better part of an hour before wrapping around 6 p.m. for group photos. Rami Malek, who was stuck in traffic heading over to central London from a shoot, missed the red carpet entirely, but arrived at the 11th hour and hurried onto the carpet for photos.

The cast is expected to head to the BFI Imax in Waterloo for the actual screening at 7 p.m., which is about a 15-minute drive away.

Nothing funnier than the people who think Christopher Nolan could possibly have made a pro-nuclear-bomb movie (re: Oppenheimer). Nolan made 3 movies where Batman,

1)Fights an Al-Qaeda stand in [re: Batman Begins]

2)Uses mass surveillance & a Noble Lie to give Gotham Police a PATRIOT Act named after the most corrupt lawyer ever [Dark Knight]

3)Fights an Occupy Wall St stand in controlled by the Al-Qaeda stand in [Dark Knight Rises]

With a SAG strike looming, some actors from "Orange Is the New Black" are speaking out about how they were never fairly compensated for a formative show of the streaming revolution. Unrealistic from Bob Iger who, in early 2017, demanded that Star Wars Ep IX keep its hard Dec 2019 release date despite having just hired a director, only about 30% of a script, a partial cast and crew, and no shooting done. Spare me.

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