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Your complaint is at the studios, including Netflix, then. They’re the ones who own the IP, they’re the ones who decide to use it. The actors have absolutely no say in whether Disney decides to make another Marvels movie or not.

Actors are the ones looking for a gig, often any gig, but when they have a choice, the highest paying gig. And believe me, every actor and writer in Hollywood wishes studios would invest more in mid-budget B movie not based on any cinematic universe: those are what paid many people’s bills.

As Union members, actors have a contract with studios that they negotiate every 3 years. Every three years since the last strike in 1960 they’ve reached a deal (and the result of that strike was the creation of revenue sharing for cable and film tv with actors and writers, which they are now hoping to apply to streaming).

No deal? Fine, studios have the right not to sign. But actors have the right to withhold their work. Eventually a deal will be reached.

So they are like the software engineers who work on things like web-environment-integrity? Not sure why that calls for any sort of sympathy.

They’re not asking for sympathy. All employees in any industry, union or not, have the choice to work, or not.

Actors here are just collectively using that power to withhold their work in order to negotiate a better deal, as is their right. They’re not asking for sympathy, they’re demanding studios meet them at the negotiating table. If they’re wrong about how important they are, then studios will continue to disregard their demands until SAG eventually folds— my guess, though, is that actors know they’re more important en masse to studios than studios are to them, or else studios would’ve refused to exclusively work with SAG along ago.

After all, most actors are very used to having second jobs to make ends meet. They can work other jobs or more hours or whatever else they want to do during the strike. Studios are the ones with corporate 9-5 employees who won’t have anything productive to do or show their shareholders the longer the strike goes on.

No it's also with the actors, directors, producers who are equally as guilty in driving off the audience. All who were the most vocal and venomous of the amen chorus.

Producers are often studio executives, who are on the other side of this debate.

Directors are not on strike, as they are the closest of the unions with studios and have never been on strike in the history of their union.

I don’t understand what point you’re trying to make, this year Hollywood is on track to exceed its pre-covid performance at the Box Office worldwide and domestically. Netflix/etc are growing more than ever.

It seems like all signs point to this sector being on the up and up.

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