I’m no longer PreWGA. After 18 months, Disney finally moved forward and bought my script. I’m staffing a room asap.
Wga writers go ahead and send resumes
WGA members if there are deals you are passing on, PLEASE refer that person to a lower level or PreWGA member who may want it.
At this stage of my career, I have nothing to lose from an if/come deal. I always can use more writing samples anyway.
Concerns over AI loopholes are not just contrarian. What’s to stop them from having a synthetic performer that isn’t based on any real person’s facial features or voice?
Fran Drescher urged SAG-AFTRA membership to listen carefully to the details of the guild's new contract with the studios, “if you haven’t yet been poisoned by contrarians.”
Hey I’m not trying to be a jerk but…
Would any major Hollywood studios let me write a major television show or film since their writers are on strike?
You can check for examples of my writing.
PreWGA following strike rules of a union they can't even get into, is more impactful than a union writer being on strike.
I'm not in the union, I'm coming to your pickets 3 days a week, and not chasing a script sale how I did before the strike. I don't even have representation.
There's a TON of risk for an actor. If you are paid $5k/ep with virtually 0 residuals for a 10 episode show.
That's 37k after rep fees and union dues, BEFORE taxes.
You have to quit every other job for 4-6 months to do it.
AMPTP doesn't see the risk in that?
AMPTP on revenue sharing pitch from SAG-AFTRA
● The Union is proposing that performers share in the rewards of a successful show, without bearing any of the risk. Under the Union’s proposal, performers would be entitled to receive not only the existing fixed residual – which
Union contracts should still ban AI entirely. They can use AI to write a script. Hire one human writer to make basic changes and say a human wrote it to copyright it
Dear
#SagAftraMembers
,
Over the course of the weekend, we have discussed all open proposals, including AI, with the AMPTP.
Both parties will be working independently Monday and re-engage on scheduling at the end of the day.
Join us and flood picket lines in the morning. (1/2)
That should be in the WGA and SAG contract. if they pull a show off the platform, they MUST release it on DVD or something. it can't just be gone forever.
This is happening industry wide and I know so many people who poured their entire lives into this work and now its gone.
whenever i hear about a show being removed from its service, i always find myself thinking about this tweet from kristen schaal. just what is the point of all these streamers if there is no sense of permanence? no real way to document that you were a part of a project you loved?
@notdanilu
the job interview process for a tech role is truly insane. when a recruiter calls me about meta or google, i immediately decline 🙅🏾
life is too short.
I’m confused. She said she paid all her bills and still has 2-300 left over. But claims she’s living WORSE than paycheck to paycheck? Does she know what that phrase means? I’m convinced a large swath of white Americans believe they’re poor when they’re actually comfortably middle
@CoreyDeshon
It’s second screen content. It’s written for people are watching tv while doing other things. That’s what streaming has done to the industry
Having sex in a United States government building and filming it is the reason you got heat.
You being gay and having gay sex NO BODY gives a rats ass…
No one is perusing a political agenda, we are just disgusted about your VILE behavior as a staffer to a United States
If you’re so offended, why not have your daughter’s name removed from the law? What was meg suppose to call it? That’s literally what it’s called “MEGAN’S LAW”
Miles Morales is dark brown in every piece of media made.
I stg that it’s okay to let Afro-Latinos have actual dark skin in their representation in the media.
Stop erasing Afro-Latinos.
This is what you call solidarity. She walked away from a job that was ALLOWED because it felt wrong.
Looking at a LEGIT paycheck and saying no thank you.
Viola Davis for President.
Viola Davis has decided not to continue filming her new movie ‘G20’ after the production received an independent film SAG waiver.
“I love this movie, but I do not feel that it would be appropriate for this production to move forward during the strike.”
(Source: Deadline)
We, and I cannot overstate this enough, still have no idea why Beau DeMayo got fired and if X-Men 97 is this good and he still got fired the week of the premiere it was probably for something very bad
ArQuez is not popular enough anymore nor is he getting the revenue to be taking a “holier than though” republican stand point.
Not to mention you are literally everything the Republican Party hates. A black, gay, sex worker, but keep licking that BOOT sis.
For 2 years,
@staceyabrams
spread the same conspiracy theories about Georgia’s elections that have been used since November to devastating effect. Securing Georgia’s elections means acknowledging baseless “stolen” election claims are a bipartisan problem:
As a woman of color, I’m glad zendaya is getting what she’s worth but why is she making $11m for Euphoria and the ones doing nude sex scenes are making $250k.
Zendaya deserves it but so do they.
So far the guild has granted 102 interim agreements through the close of business Thursday. Most of the list is made up of film projects, though there are nine TV projects.
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i've seen some union writers say the same thing, the only experience they have is in zoom writing rooms, they dont really have a lot of connections and are almost in the same position as pre wga.
When Disney randomly decided to take mine & other POC support staff’s free lunch away mid show, it was the Writers who rotated giving us their lunch in solidarity. Sometimes I would cry while eating cuz the sh!t was SO DEHUMANIZING
The writer's strike woke me up. Up until the 2023, I believed once you got staffed in a writer's room, you were on easy street for life. You work 40 weeks/year for 6 figure paychecks and healthy residuals flow for life.
@digitalkam
Boundaries are set by people who are upto no good behind closed doors, especially in romantic relationships. Why would you wanna be on your partners Will yet you set boundaries when it comes to"cellphone privacy" there's boundaries. It's the little things that needs questioning.
There was a time when every studio lot in LA was booked out for a year. That's why many shows and films were shooting in Atlanta.
Selling this to somebody who'd tear it down is a huge mistake.
This would be a very dark day. Paramount’s lot is special.
It’s our history - I don’t just mean Hollywood’s.
I mean America’s.
Epic moments happened there.
via
@business
This is in no way supporting Diddy but consider the source here. She just saying a bunch of salacious things but prefacing them by saying “allegedly”. No legal documents or real media sources here. Just a tik tok. Good luck everybody.
@JorgeCoolReyes
I’ve picketed quite a bit. Didn’t feel like networking and being social every time but I’ve been there so not sure if anyone would drop my name.
This level of intimacy between student and teacher (albeit non-sexual) is inappropriate.
Students don’t come over my house and play Xbox and there’s a reason for that
@CoreMath80
this one is purposefully messy (9!/8!)! is just 9!
so (x!)^2 = (9!/8!)!
so x!^2 = 9!
okay
so x!^2 = 2*3*4*5*6*7*8*9
let's try and group into like pairs
= 2*3*(2*2)*5*(2*3)*7*(2*2*2)*3*3
= 2^7* 3^4 *5*7
= (2^6) *(3^4) *2*5*7
stuck because 9! isn't a perfect square
Uber /Lyft are NOT always hiring. If they have too many drivers in your city they will put you on a waitlist.
And that shit barely covers rent if even that.
They did not turn their nose up at 11k/week.
"high-profile" means rich and famous and wanting to get back to making hella money or afraid of being out of the limelight too long that their fame will die out.
most people in SAG and WGA are NOT rich and need to stay on strike to secure a good deal.
The Bear hit a billion minutes streamed in a week. If my math is correct, that's equivalent to 31,000,000 unique accounts watching all of season 2 in one week.
A writer for that show is currently asking people for rides to picket lines.
This is why we strike.
Why does HireRight verify your employment EVERYTIME you get a new job?
#BlackTechTwitter
HireRight has called my entire job history to verify in 2015, 2019, 2020 and 2021 and now they have to do it again. Every time it take 5-10 business days.
@RHSTUDYZONE
trick question. everyone saying 1 is mistaken.
parens first, 2+1=3,
then since it's all one term, its left to right.
first, 6/2 =3 THEN *3, it's 9
In the age of streaming, I understand some shows are getting very low viewership and are unprofitable. But those shows' workers still deserve minimum pay. AMPTP is still wealthy.
💥UPS BOWS TO TEAMSTER PRESSURE, NEGOTIATIONS TO RESUME NEXT WEEK
As thousands of
@UPS
#Teamsters
practice picket, rall, and mobilize around the country, UPS bowed today to the overwhelming show of Teamster unity and reached out to the union to resume negotiations.
#1u