SAG says actors won't do Globes

They need to get this strike over with ASAP.

 

http://blog.meevee.com/my_weblog/writers_strike/index.html?CMP=KNC-brand

That strike started in November 2007 and it seems like it's getting uglier by the minute. Look what had happened to all the late night talk shows regarding this strike! I won't be surprised if it keeps going thru the spring. Of course it's a business and all, but one side got to back down a bit because they're all suffering.

 

If I remember correctly the last strike lasted close to two years.

 

The 1988 strike lasted 21 weeks and 6 days.

There are a lot of things going on here. In the middle of the year, the directors (DGA) and actors (SAG) also have contracts that expire. As I understand it, SAG isn't negotiating and appears to be eager to join WGA in a strike. The directors are either negotiating now or will soon start. The DGA has a history of negotiating quickly and getting a deal done. The WGA has a history of internal division that can both lengthen and undermine their strikes.

At this point, I think there is probably a 50% or greater chance that the DGA signs a deal and both the WGA and SAG fairly quickly accept a similar deal. I think the other possibility is a joint DGA/SAG/WGA strike that could go a year or longer and seriously change the landscape of entertainment on television and at the cinema. Summer 2008 movies are fine. Holiday 2008 movies are probably also fine. A few Summer 2009 movies may even be in production to the point they wouldn't be affected. There can't be many of those, though.

If the DGA doesn't get this thing settled, I think we're looking next fall at minimum.

 

I knew the strike did last somewhere in the 20s just thought it was months and not weeks.

E: Its a joke the won't pay these guys and gals, without them there would be nothing to watch on television and I think it is time for the big wigs to give them their money.

 

I'm staying neutral so far. I don't tend to get involved in rich versus mega-rich people duking it out to determine how to slice the pie. At some point, I'll probably be disgusted at both sides for failing to find some common ground. We know the producers can give up some money. We know the writers don't need as much as they're asking for.

 

One of the last SNL Weekend Update skits was very funny. Producer didnt want to give any $$$ to them. His one wish was each writer got "two words" ***-cancer.

Hope it gets settled soon. They deserve high pay, etc.