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‘Deadpool 3’: Merc with a mouth moving off May release date as actors strike shakes up 2024 theatrical schedule
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- Authors
- Anthony D'Alessandro
- Published
- Oct 19 2023
- Word count
- 555 words
Good. We can wait.
This comes off the heels from breakdown in negotiations as SAG leadership threw in a last minute unreasonable demand and after A-Listers, wanting the strike to end, offered an end to SAG dues cap equaling in 150M in pooled money to help bottom tier SAG members which was ultimately not received well by SAG leadership.
I don't know that it's that unreasonable. Hollywood is notorious for accounting for profitability in ways that portray very successful shows as losing money, leading to any pay based on net profits being fundamentally untrustworthy. Some amount right off the top would shortcircuit any clever accounting. The only part I'm not happy with would be the union being in charge of determining who gets what. That's the sort of flexibility that makes favoritism easy and likely.
I agree that it isn't particularly unreasonable. I think the studios are portraying it as such but it was a counter to a revenue sharing model, the one that the studios are refusing.
And of course the counter to not making a deal is back to the picket lines. That's what a strike is.
The media around who is "to blame" for negotiation breakdowns depends on whose press releases are being believed. I pretty firmly stand with the union(s) on this. Especially after how the AMPTP got here
Reading the other articles linked, I get why NegCom wasn't super excited. First the publicity around the proposals demonstrates lack of party unity, second this is apparently not addressing the overall sticking points and third the biggest criticism is that the "A listers didn't leave feeling confident in NegCom".