Television and film screenwriters in Hollywood are laying down their jobs en masse. They feel they don’t get enough money from big studios and streaming services.
A total of 11,500 writers are on strike, reports The New York Times. They disagree with payments from major studios like Universal and Paramount and streaming services like Netflix and Amazon.
The writers would now have been offered more money. But the Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) cannot agree with that, the union says.
Talk shows are the first to suffer from the strike. Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert shows should probably go on hiatus right away, just like Saturday Night Live.
Seth Meyers: ‘We don’t just do this’
“Not only the writers are affected by this”, said presenter Seth Meyers, who is also a member of the WGA. “All the great employees of those shows are the victims if there is a strike, so we are not doing this just like that. I also think it is terrible and will have to miss my viewers.”
For the film industry, the problems are less acute. Still, new productions could suffer from the strike. The longer it takes, the more projects are delayed.
The writers will demonstrate in New York and Los Angeles. Most of the major entertainment companies are located in those cities.
Hollywood writers last went on strike in 2007. That lasted 100 days and cost the industry about $2.1 billion.
2023-05-02 06:49:15
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