LOS ANGELES, July 14 In New York City and Los Angeles, actors marched outside the services of Netflix Inc (NFLX.O), Paramount Global (PARA.O) and other companies, venting demands for advanced compensation for working- class actors and other earnings. ” We are in an old contract for a new type of business and it’s just not working for utmost people,” actor Susan Sarandon said outside Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O) services in New York.” The commercial rapacity that the workrooms have shown has made it veritably delicate for people to have lives,” she said. Although the SAG- AFTRA ranks include the most notorious, and flush, Hollywood pictures stars, the sentry lines on Friday were filled with lower familiar faces that make up the maturity of the union’s 160,000 members. ” Utmost of us are middle class actors and pens, and we just want to be suitable to do the effects that everyone differently has in life and own homes and have families and pay for our lives,” actor Caitlyn Knisely said outside the win tree- lined Paramount Pictures lot in Los Angeles. Across city outside Netflix headquarters, picketers chanted” Netflix pay up!” slack- AFTRA President Fran Drescher, former star of the” The nurse” television show, joined the crowd and linked the actors’ fight to a broader swell in U.S. labor exertion. Unions nationwide have been taking harder lines in accommodations with companies includingAmazon.com (AMZN.O) and Starbucks (SBUX.O). still, we’re all going to be in trouble of losing our livelihoods,” Drescher said,” If we do not take control of this situation from these greedy megalux maniacs. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), the group that negotiates on behalf of Netflix, Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) and other workrooms, said it had offered significant increases in compensation to SAG- AFTRA and Writers Guild of America (WGA) members. Sources near to workrooms also argue that the companies are facing a grueling time. numerous streaming services have yet to turn a profit after spending billions of bones.
on programming to try and attract guests. Disney, Comcast Corp’s (CMCSA.O) NBCUniversal and Paramount each lost hundreds of millions of bones
from streaming in the most recent quarter. At the same time, the rise of online videotape has eroded TV announcement profit as traditional television cult shrink and movie ticket deals remain below pre-pandemic situations. The unions are seeking assurances that their jobs won’t be replaced by generative AI. SAG- AFTRA leaders said workrooms had proposed paying actors for one day’s work and using their digital images in infinity. The AMPTP said that characterization was false and that workrooms had offered” groundbreaking” protections around AI use. – Striking Hollywood actors joined film and TV pens on sentry lines for the first time in 63 times on Friday, cheering and chanting outside major workrooms with calls for advanced streaming- period pay and checks on use of artificial intelligence. The binary strikes will add to the profitable damage from the pens’ strike that started on May 2, adding the pressures facing the multibillion- bone.
media assiduity as it struggles with seismic changes to its business.
‘Pay up!:’ Hollywood actors, writers team on picket lines
