Their work is violent, angry, sexy, subversive, and brilliant.
These filmmakers eat, sleep, snort, and screw cinema.
Hollywood has no idea whats coming.
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The streaming system is on the verge of collapse, and thank God for that.
The techie invasion has transformed Hollywood into a boring, algorithmic franchise factory run by metrics obsessed losers.
To the average tech oligarch, everything is content.
I am proud to march on the picket line every day for workers rights.
Actors are fighting online and writers are rolling their eyes.
There is also a chicken and egg problem.
But you cant get an IA without an investor.
Even writing these sentences makes me dizzy.
I do not envy the SAG-AFTRA negotiation and contracts teams.
But to snuff out this new generation of artists would be counterintuitive to the goals of the strike.
Heres my pitch as to how we can fix this:
1.
Create a path to production via an online portal.
A clear set of guidelines, contracts, and an order of operations would go a long way.
Expedited IAs for SAG members who produce.
Striking actor-producers should be at the front of the line over massive production companies.
Lets figure it out together!
