The Screen Actors Guild expected to strike, as both sides release fiery statements. Were studio offers 'historic' or 'insulting'? With writers already picketing, Hollywood is likely to be paralyzed.
Although Emmy nominations were announced yesterday, campaigning will be virtually nonexistent—and the September 18 show possibly postponed—if the actors strike extends past the end of July. Even before a SAG-AFTRA strike seemed likely, therethat Emmys organizers were considering pushing the event as late as January. All of this could give the AMPTP incentive to sit back down at the negotiating table with the actors—and eventually the writers—to hammer out new deals.
Hollywood has already been at a nearly complete standstill since writers went on strike, but an actors strike will force all productions to immediately halt. Premieres will be canceled and the stars of upcoming summer blockbusters will be pulled off the press circuit. Studios will not have actors to promote upcoming movies and TV shows at Comic-Con, which is set to begin July 20 in San Diego.predicts that a double strike will prolong the impasses for both scribes and stars.
For the guilds, Hollywood’s lopsided power structure is a big part of what has made this moment necessary. “It’s utterly frustrating. It really is the haves versus the have nots,” Oscar and Emmy nomineebefore the strike. “There’s a lot of inequality that has to be addressed, and I just feel that there is just a lack of respect—there’s a lack of respect for writers, there's a lack of respect for actors.
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