Summary Hollywood studios have already lost the strikes. Now it’s time to surrender | by Scott Myers | Sep, 2023 | Go Into The Story gointothestory.blcklst.com
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Hollywood studios should concede defeat as they have faced strategic errors and a growing wage disparity.
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- Hollywood studios have lost the strikes
- The traditional business model of television and film has been broken by streaming platforms
- The salary gap between executives and those who make television and film has widened
- The studios thought they could use chaos to their advantage, but it hasn't worked out
- The AMPTP's concessions are recognized as lowball offers
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Hollywood studios have lost the strikes and should now surrender due to tactical mishaps and a widening salary gap.
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Hollywood studios have lost the strikes and should now surrender, according to an article by Scott Myers published on Go Into The Story. The article highlights the tactical mishaps committed by the AMPTP and the widening salary gap between executives and those who make
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Hollywood studios have already lost the strikes. Now its time to surrender
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Dont start a fight unless you are certain you can win it.
Bike the Strike members gather at the picket line outside Paramount Studios on Wednesday. (David Livingston / Getty Images | Los Angeles Times)
Yesterday from L.A. Times Culture Columnist and Critic Mary McNamara. Perhaps the single best summation of where things stand. We can skip the columns review of the many,
many
tactical mishaps committed by the AMPTP and cut to the chase:
Everyone knew streaming platforms broke the traditional business model of television and film at the expense of those who actually make television and film even as the salary gap between the executive suite and the soundstages had widened to Meg 2: The Trench-like proportions.
Did they think the WGA and SAG-AFTRA werent going to rise up, teeth gnashing, in response?
I deeply fear that, like so many of the conniving and oblivious characters we love to despise, the studios thought they could use chaos to their own advantage and then call it back when they were done. Sure, let the writers strike; well use the shutdown to burn off certain contracts and projects, and goose quarterly reports before offering the guilds just enough (but not too much) to send everyone back to work.
Except it has not worked out like that. At all.
Now, after
major victories by UPS workers and airline pilots
, among other groups agitating during this hot labor summer, what the AMPTP has so far treated as concessions can be recognized for what they are: lowball offers. And as both the WGA and SAG-AFTRA have proved, they are not interested in half measures of that sort, especially as the writers strike heads into its fifth month. Why would they? No writer or actor wants to be forced to strike again in another four years, and the only way to prevent that is to make reasonable gains on all the key issues this time around.
Which, if they are the great business minds they claim to be, the studio heads should understand.
So far, however, they continue to insist that down is up, wrong is right and all they need to get through this is a better PR team.
Guys, youve lost the war. The best thing to do now is negotiate the terms of surrender.
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