Actors are calling for increased pay as well as progress on residuals paid for when films or shows are shown again, particularly on streaming services. They join 11,000 members of the Writers Guild of America, who have been on strike for two months. Also concern from actors, AI. AI will get rid of humans, so the Actors and Fran Drescher joined in. Some history on last Actors strike, it was I'm hearing in 1960, Ronald Reagan was a member of D party and musical hit performer was Chubby Checker.
I personally think they make too damn much money now and AI is already starting to take over, so they should be worried about that.
When animation was first taking off, didn't the actors' unions demand concessions (like paying dues and contributions to retirement funds) because cartoons were doing the jobs that belonged to their members? What a blight on the face of the planet.
I’m waiting for that and will welcome it. It is inevitable given the absurd amounts paid to actors. Money concerns always win in the end. Too many think because they got rich playing make-pretend that their opinions are worth as much as their material wealth, really tired of their self-righteous egos.
Maybe we can get AI professional sports, too. Those NFL "stars" and owners make obscene amounts of money. Of course I haven't watched an NFL game in several years now; they kneeled, I changed the channel.
The actors and writers can stay on strike forever as far as I am concerned. I watch the old stuff, but I haven't watched anything new in a long time.
LOL, that would probably be pretty cool, watching A.I. players and strategies. You just know some A.I.s are going to “cheat”, give the footballs built in guidance, receivers that can leap 9 feet in the air.
The vast majority of the bucks are in marketing fees (jerseys, etc) and in selling commercials when the games are on tv. Stadiums only make financial sense when the taxpayer funds them. Given that, I keep waiting for AI (or virtual reality) to replace physical stadiums. Players can play the game on an open field surrounded by Blue Screens, and the stadium and the crowds and the noise can all be CGI, just like Bugs Bunny played basketball with Micheal Jordan. Of course, you would loose all those "jobs," you know, beer salespeople and hot dog vendors who are employed one day a week for 9-10 weeks. I guess that's worth hundreds of millions of dollars of tax money (speaking of being artificially intelligence.)
I see our internet streaming is going up in cost, and I said in the beginning that someday, we'd have as many commercials, and pay as much as we've payed any cable provider and it's all coming true. Nothing good last forever. I don't mind paying good money for exceptional actors, but most of them are mediocre at best, plus the filth in movies today rates in the porn catagory. As far as I'm concerned, all the truly good actors have already passed or barely getting any parts at all. I am going to Sound of Freedom today though, true story of the horrific Child Trafficking "BIG business". You'd think Hollyweird is making enough money from that billion dollar industry. But they want more, of course, again, the Love of Money.
I'd like to live to see the day when "leaders" of countries have to fight hand to hand combat, and quit killing off all our young men. I bet they wouldn't be so fast to jump into wars would they. I want biden in there fighting for America first, lol, since America will go down the toilet with people like him in power anyway. Oh wait, we'd really see him haul ass down to his basement then, what a waste of flesh.
As you surely remember, that's the way it was when we switched from analog to cable. At first, many of us welcomed the switch because, while we paid for cable, we weren't subjected to advertising. Once enough people had made the switch, the analog option was all but removed, and then we were subjected to advertising on our cable channels. Most of them offered a premium option that eliminated the ads but, after a short time, the free options were removed, and ads began appearing on many of the cable channels that we were now paying for. Subsequently, now we're paying a cable bill, plus subscription fees for the channels we subscribe to, and we're still getting ads.
XM Radio went the same way. When I signed up it was "No commercials, and no more annoying disc jockeys." After a while I guess they found disc jockeys that are not annoying, so there's no breach of faith. I initially signed up a very long time ago because of the many jazz offerings they had. One by one, those channels got replaced. When it was down to 2, they replaced one of them with a second "Classic Rock" channel, because why not charge people for the same garbage they can get on FM? So one day I was listening to Classic Rock 1 (playing Lynyrd Skynyrd) and thought I'd see that Classic Rock 2 was all about. They, too, were playing Lynyrd Skynyrd. Gee, thanks. I've stayed with them for 2 reasons: (1) they have a talk radio guy I really like, and (2) every time I call them to cancel, they give me a better deal than I had. I'm hoping to get to the point they pay me to keep it. ps: The remaining jazz channel stinks. No more Brazilian jazz. No more Astrud Gilberto.