As picketers gathered in front of Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery locations, outgoing WGA East president Michael Winship said the AMPTP is different than in 2007-2008: “It’s just gonna take a little while longer.”
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My take is that the production companies are channeling their inner Joker; it’s not about the money, it’s about sending a message. They want to break the unions, and are probably getting donations from streaming giants and others who want to see unions take a big loss.
This strike is going to last until someone cries Uncle, and both sides are fired up. I hope I’m wrong, but I’m imagining this strike going down to whoever has the most resources.
Media companies have been hemorrhaging money like a patient bleeding out on the operating table ever since Covid and their ill-advised entry into streaming. They have more to lose. A couple of them have a nice infusion of cash following some summer movie blockbusters, but that will only give them a little more runway.
I don’t know off-hand where things stand with the most recent quarterly earnings, but I recall, for instance, WB Discovery lost $200M per week in the final quarter of 2022.
I don’t think the studios have any money.
well yeah because AI is a thing now. there’s some rumours that Marvel’s Secret Wars and the Gollum Videogame was written by AIs
Gonna need some citation on Secret Invasion. I think that’s a bastardization of the fact that AI was used to create the intro graphics which is widely known and talked about, but not used with the scripts.
I think AI is leading to a digital witch hunt. It’s ripe for abuse and bad actors will certainly use it, but it’s not all bad either. People are getting too easily triggered any time they catch a hint that AI may be involved in some capacity.
Definitely not just “written by” but heavily used I’m sure. It’s widly known that Rockstar’s GTA Trilogy they relied on AI just to upscale everything for them and then just shoved it out.
Maybe someday we’ll get to the point where AI is good enough to produce whole works without human need, but we’re a ways off from that right now. Right now it’s a great tool to help augment jobs, but should be fine tuned and combined by humans. Buuut studio execs breeze past those details and just start the layoffs.
i mean the bird plot from Gollum feels like something an AI would hallucinate.
I watched that movie ‘65’ with Adam Driver and the whole time I was thinking this has to be a movie written by AI