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news.yahoo.com — The Screen Actors Guild said Saturday it will ask its members to authorize a strike after its first contract talks in four months with Hollywood studios failed despite the help of a federal mediator.

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  • mongo22, on 11/22/2008, -1/+118This is getting old, especially with the state of the economy.
    • poidh, on 11/23/2008, -2/+13I wish they would just ***** work. We had to miss out on Battlestar Galactica and 24 this year because of union demands.
    • imasuperDOTcom, on 11/23/2008, -0/+28So awesome.

      This reminds me of those Anti-Piracy commericals they were showing at the beginning of movies in the theatres for a while. You remember don't you? "You may think stealing movies doesn't hurt anyone......But it does. The lighting Crew... the makup artists... [insert peon crew member title here]"

      What a bunch of BS that was. Maybe if they weren't paying the blockbuster starts 20 million a movie, and the director 15 million, they'd be able to pay everyone else a little more.

      What a crock. Hollywood blows.
      • 808ethan, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Yeah, and these striking writers and actors put more makeup artists out of business than pirating does. Are we gonna arrest them and treat them like terrorists? I dont think so.
    • linagee, on 11/23/2008, -0/+6At least we still have youtube for entertainment.
      • celotil, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2Exactly. I watched Hancock yesterday, and the home videos I watched on Youtube of the recent Brisbane Storms - I'm an Ipswichite - were infinitely more interesting.
    • Canadianpj, on 11/23/2008, -0/+4This is really pathetic. I understand that not all actors make the Wil Smith type of money, but considering how things are going right now this is not the time to be doing something like this.
    • MasterPain, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Make these ***** get real jobs & see if they strike then.
    • Oracle95, on 11/24/2008, -0/+2Gee during the last Depression, the American people could look forward to a "pick me up" from the movie industry. Now these money hungry blow hards without a clue want more money.

      Here's a clue. With money so tight, we'll find something better to do for entertainment dollars. Major League Baseball took a hit with this *****. The Hollywood Elitists suffer the same.
  • lycao25, on 11/22/2008, -19/+8Damn it, and right when 24 was about to start up again too.
  • bixby1, on 11/22/2008, -3/+83Jesus Christ. I work in the entertainment business and the writers strike bent me over a barrel. As a SAG member, I'm not voting for this and I know many of my friends won't either. There's just too much to lose.
    • calypsoschnitzl, on 11/23/2008, -0/+12x2, I'm not SAG, but I work in the industry in California... They don't realize that there are 500 persons working behind every actor, and when they strike, these 500 are out of work.
      • heliox, on 11/23/2008, -0/+6Unions don't care about anything other then the union.
    • LilRabbitFooFoo, on 11/23/2008, -1/+3The SAG leadership are burying themselves in this hole. Just take the same damn deal EVERY OTHER UNION signed off on earlier in the year!!! FFS.
    • OutlawSundown, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2 Yeah the writers strike screwed things up big time. But I could at least agree with them considering the raw deal they were gonna get. But considering the SAG is crying over the same basic contract that the writers, directors, and AMPTP all agreed to makes the SAG look greedy. Especially with the economy tanking like it is no one is going to be very supportive of that strike.

      I work for a company that depends on film contracts and at this point the SAG is screwing the pooch on new productions and contracts which means less money for me.
  • MrSmith34, on 11/22/2008, -6/+113wait, so there's troops in Iraq & Afganistan; the stock market has crashed, banks are failing, automotive big three are going broke, mortgage industry is sucking, unemployment has gone skyrocketed, retirement funds have been plundered. ...and why do I care about this?
    • SemiSarcastic, on 11/23/2008, -2/+21THINK ABOUT THE ACTORS!
    • HOTM, on 11/23/2008, -1/+22Unemployment has gone skyrocketed!
      • cheesenuggets1, on 11/23/2008, -0/+4And thurr's gold in them thar hills!
    • BoonTobias, on 11/23/2008, -11/+3we're doing it for the lulz
    • Xihix, on 11/23/2008, -3/+9LA lost a ***** load of money because of the Writers Strike. This involves the economy as well.
      • PopcornDave, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Maybe they're holding out for a bailout for Gigli?
    • khaos4k, on 11/23/2008, -7/+6There's genocide in Africa, sweatshops in Asia, massive poverty in India and an AIDS epidemic in Africa. Why do I care about some relatively rich Americans losing some money?

      There is ALWAYS something bigger to complain about, there's not some set number of interests that people need to have.
      • santaliqueur, on 11/23/2008, -5/+3Don't confuse him with your logic. There is always more America to bash, especially on Digg.
    • Steeple, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2cool, i can catch up on my boxsets
  • default45, on 11/23/2008, -5/+16I thought they were the Famous Actors Guild...
    • davidjunit, on 11/23/2008, -2/+51Film Actors Guild
    • imasuperDOTcom, on 11/23/2008, -1/+9only part of that movie I liked.

      That and "MATT DAMON". I still repeat that occasionally at work when I want to appear totally lost.
    • TheReport, on 11/23/2008, -1/+1Oh they definitely are all F.A.G.s
    • dsmx, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1That's the FAG way.
  • streetsim, on 11/23/2008, -3/+23God Dammit. Another 3-4 month Hollywood delay?
    • thetron, on 11/23/2008, -0/+3Not to mention it screws up a TV show big time. By not letting season finish and the story finsh properly

      Could lead to a tv series eventual cancellation. Cause the writers need to rework stories to suit the strike
  • liquisoft, on 11/23/2008, -1/+23SAG seems to think that actors are the only ones affected by these strikes. They're wrong. There are way more people involved in making entertainment than just the actors, and when the actors are on strike nobody can work. SAG needs to get a clue.
    • ibeetle, on 11/23/2008, -1/+3That is exactly their point. A Union is very well aware of what they are doing when they call a strike vote.
      One of the many reasons sometimes is to show the ripple effect to management of what happens when there is a strike.
    • Jimbozu, on 11/23/2008, -0/+4I wish i could digg you're comment more than once. It was ***** dreadful trying to find work last year during the writers strike, SAG going on strike would be just as bad.
  • heero101086, on 11/23/2008, -10/+45So the writers might not have been getting paid as much as they should have... OK.
    AREN'T ACTORS GETTING PAID MORE THAN ENOUGH!
    • praisethelard, on 11/23/2008, -3/+43Hint: A great majority of actors are not famous and not multimillionaires.
      • Rivetgeek, on 11/23/2008, -4/+13Protip: most of them aren't very good actors.
      • cubicledrone, on 11/23/2008, -7/+1Protip: They get paid to act. You don't. Scoreboard.
      • solid12345, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2Hint: just because you did some cheesy ass horror movie in the 80s that no one saw doesn't entitle you to free healthcare and retirement benefits.
    • ibeetle, on 11/23/2008, -5/+6Over a 5 year period beginning when I was 17 I was in 5 movies. Co-stared in 2. I was in 2 television commercials, 4 print ads, was a recurring character (appearing about 10 times over a 2 season period) on a Situation Comedy. Was in two off-Broadway plays and 1 Official Touring Production of a Broadway play.

      I earned less than $50,000 for the entire 5 year period. That averages to a little less than $5,000 a year. You try living on $5,000 a year.
      • drexl, on 11/23/2008, -0/+9Wow. I have a friend that's been in three or four national ads, a couple of shorts, and one major motion picture and he's made almost as much as you. Things really picked up for him when he got an agent that's worth a damn.
      • Encablossa, on 11/23/2008, -11/+9Maybe you should try a real ***** job? Work like the rest of us do? Acting was never a job.
      • Doofy, on 11/23/2008, -7/+19"You try living on $5,000 a year. "

        And if they paid $1 day, they'd still be lining up to audition on the hopes of someday becoming a "star".

        Actors = attention whores.

        Nobody "has" to be an actor. Get a real job.
      • ibeetle, on 11/23/2008, -3/+5Well lets see Encablossa after Acting I went on to work for Toys R Us (corporate) Atari, Worlds of Wonder, Nintendo and then back to Toys R Us. Before leaving corporate America for my best, and favorite Job... Being a stay at home dad and raising my son.

        In after hours and spare time I worked as a photographer. Just a play job really. I did do the album cover for a grammy winning band, and I did the back album cover for another band. Oh.. and I am one of only two photographers to win the Kodak/Parade Magazine Cover Prize twice.

        ... and what did you do with your life for any 20 year period?
      • leamanc, on 11/23/2008, -0/+12Isn't $50,000 over five years more like $10,000 per year?

        I know you said "slightly less," but you'd have to drop all the way down to $25,000 to average $5,000 per year.
      • 1hrSleep, on 11/23/2008, -0/+5@leamanc

        So, you're saying his math is weak. I guess we know why he chose to be an actor.
      • Encablossa, on 11/23/2008, -2/+3@ibeetle

        Congratulations! Here is you retard medal! You must have hit a new low to brag about ***** nobody cares about on the INTERNET! Thanks for proving my point that actors are attention whores.
      • starf, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1And how many days did you work for that money?
        Most actors have jobs in between acting gigs until they get something big.
        SAG actors working for scale make a decent amount per day of work, and they get residuals down the line too.
  • Jo9100, on 11/23/2008, -0/+22We were just getting back to normal after the WGA strike... :(
    • wsuvtx, on 11/23/2008, -4/+1Why is TV and movies considered normal life? I mean I like them both, but come on.
      • AzureRise, on 11/23/2008, -0/+3He didn't say LIFE was getting back to normal I believe he was referring to the entertainment industry.
    • zwaldowski, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Wahh... my favorite TV shows were canceled as a result of the effing strike.
  • Georgy, on 11/23/2008, -5/+13Before people starting saying that Will Smith earns enough money, there are thousands of actors and actresses in hollywood who probably deserve better pay
    • starf, on 11/23/2008, -1/+6SAG actors get quite a bit already (when they're working). They're asking for a lot more on the back end.
    • Steeple, on 11/23/2008, -1/+11the ones people don't have interest in seeing?
      a compelling actor can ask for the moon, but no one owes an actor a living wage, they have to be worth it in a market place
    • Kannebas, on 11/23/2008, -0/+3Compared to what?
    • buddypriefert, on 11/23/2008, -0/+4Oh cry me a river. And what about the thousands of janitors who deserve better pay (and probably have far better work ethics).
    • Oracle95, on 11/24/2008, -0/+2I'm not in the medical field because I didn't have the grades to go to medical school. If you aren't making enough money in the movie industry, maybe you don't have the talent for it.

      Give up on the fantasy world dream and get a real job. Maybe you'll have less time criticizing people who work for a living when they complain about how much of our tax dollars go into government handouts. Maybe when you actually WORK for a living, you'll see that we aren't "greedy".
  • Fjosnisse, on 11/23/2008, -11/+5Its for a good cause. They need more money so they can donate more money to charity and like.. do good stuff and things to make them feel like good... and stuff.. yaknow.
  • okyourturn, on 11/23/2008, -4/+14i find it hard to feel sorry for these people... if i don't get to see the office i will be ***** pissed.
  • Lucifugerising, on 11/23/2008, -11/+40Actors are greedy mother *****.

    I understand the writers strike, but seriously gimme a break.
    • ThsGuyRightHere, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Looks like this is about the same issue as the writers' strike, but then again the actors typically draw some hefty paychecks.
  • CurlyHayami, on 11/23/2008, -5/+26...wow, a couple million a movie isn't enough?!
    • Lucifugerising, on 11/23/2008, -2/+12Think of the yachts man, think of the yachts!!!
    • fizban, on 11/23/2008, -4/+15You think every actor you see on the screen is making a couple million?
    • deleo, on 11/23/2008, -0/+28Actually 75% of the members of SAG aren't working right now. They are actors who were maybe in a movie or TV show a couple of years ago but they haven't worked since. They are the ones who want the strike because they lose nothing if a strike happens. They aren't working anyways so they lose no income. The vast majority of actors who are working and making a lot of $ right now definitely don't want a strike.
      • Lucifugerising, on 11/23/2008, -1/+15stop being logical
      • TheReport, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2The only thing that has made sense on this entire thread so far, kudos for laying out this messy bag of snakes
      • cgruber, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2Booo. I was having fun reading the mob mentality comments and then you came a long and made some sense. GET A ROPE!
    • santaliqueur, on 11/23/2008, -1/+3Yes, every actor makes multiple millions of dollars per film. And it's not enough.
  • Steeple, on 11/23/2008, -4/+57spend a day as a nurse and then whine about your job, actor boys
    • drexl, on 11/23/2008, -11/+3No one made you become a nurse....or did they?
      • Steeple, on 11/23/2008, -1/+7heh, i date one, just saying if you want a vanity job (sports, actor, entertainment) instead of getting your hands dirty, you gotta take the risks and sacrifices involved
      • Oracle95, on 11/24/2008, -1/+2Last I checked, society needs nurses.

        Actors? Not so much

        (Besides it takes a lot of hard work to become a certified nurse. Acting? Just a little time on the director's couch.)
      • drexl, on 11/24/2008, -0/+1I'm not an actor....but the question remains, why do something you don't like?
  • Owwmykneecap, on 11/23/2008, -2/+14This just in: Pirates around the world have announced a sympathy strike.
    More when we get it.
    • maus56, on 11/23/2008, -2/+4Somali pirates are releasing plundered ships even as we type....
  • RenovatioInc, on 11/23/2008, -1/+6Good timing.
  • spookyttws, on 11/23/2008, -3/+9As much as I support their right to residuals and proper payment for proper work including DVD and online work, come on. One union ***** us over last year, and now another is going to this year? The economy is hurting everyone, and I know it's it seems really trivial, but after a hard days work, and a draining bank account, there is something uplifting to escape with a new episode of Lost, or a movie I have been meaning to see. It may be lame but in hard times the actors don't need this and the viewers don't need this.
  • aforsberg, on 11/23/2008, -3/+1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QjOI7bj5ks&eurl=ht ...
  • Ewingo401, on 11/23/2008, -0/+28I found that I could live without a lot of my "favorite" shows during the writers strike of last year. If the actors do indeed go on strike and cause another delay of another television season I may just find that I don't need to watch TV at all anymore.
    • LennyX, on 11/23/2008, -0/+8And when they come back there won't be any work for them. They're just screwing themselves
    • MasterPain, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1All this means is more reality TV they don't need actors most don't need scripts either, just attention hungry morons.
  • Hetman, on 11/23/2008, -3/+8I prefer to refer to them as the film actors guild.
    • medicman55, on 11/23/2008, -3/+0I see what you did there. Very sneaky!
  • taestell, on 11/23/2008, -1/+8Any type of union probably needs to refrain from increasing their demands for the next year or so.
    • cubicledrone, on 11/23/2008, -2/+0Yeah. They should just resign and genuflect on the way out of the building.
  • semperfidoordi, on 11/23/2008, -3/+8I think they can do without the extra few lambos
  • ignacious, on 11/23/2008, -2/+8God Damn it, was just about to get my card...

    Some Actors do make a lot of money, but it isn't about actors making more money off of you, it is about Execs not taking everything from everywhere. So money that seems due to the actors, should go to them. Same fight the WGA had. But I tell you, most of those 150,000 represented make about 800$ a year (one line on a TV show or film), then pay 2,400 a year to SAG to fight for this nonsense.
    • cowman80i9, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2800 a year is ridiculous that is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay below the reasonable salary. Even a bum can collect more in a year. It wouldn't really be worth it then to be an actor if you make less than a homeless person.
    • psevium, on 11/23/2008, -0/+6If they only have one line in a film/tv show, they should have another full time job. Obviously working one hour a year is never going to amount to a sustainable fulltime job
      • ignacious, on 11/23/2008, -1/+3You are right. Most of those SAG members have other jobs. A very small percentage of people who are in the SAG union don't have another job. Most SAG members will be ***** by the strike.

        Also, to clarify, although a one-liner is 10 seconds of screen time, the actor does have to be on set for 10-14 hours. Still 800 bucks for a day is pretty good.
  • X9001, on 11/23/2008, -3/+4Oh please, at least this will give upcoming actors a chance
  • SemiSarcastic, on 11/23/2008, -16/+9John Madden: SO YOU SEE HERE THE ACTORS GUILD ARE GOING ON STRIKE BECAUSE THEY WANT MORE MONEY! SO YOU GOT YOUR ACTORS HERE (circles three times) THERE THEY ARE AND YOU GOT SCIENTOLOGY OVER HERE WITH JOHN TRAVOLTA AND TOM CRUISE (circles seven times) AND YOU KNOW WHAT? LETS JUST THROW IN SOME COCAINE FOR THE HELL OF IT (begins to draw mountains of cocaine) CELEBRITIES LOVE COCAINE. A-A-AND THEN YOU KNOW HERE ARE THE EXECUTIVES ON THE ROOF OF THEIR TOWER PLAYING WITH THEIR SLIP AND SLIDE (circles seven times) AND SLIPPING INTO HUGE SACKS OF MONEY AND HOOKERS! SO I DON'T KNOW WHY PEOPLE CARE BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I ALWAYS SAY: ACE IS THE PLACE FOR THE HELPFUL HARDWARE MAN! SO YOU GOT ACTORS, THEY'RE STRIKING, EXECUTIVES ARE STILL RICH AND NOBODY CARES AND THAT'S THE LOW DOWN...BOOM!
    • T8erT0T, on 11/23/2008, -1/+4I enjoyed the rant.
      Tough actin', bitch ass t'nactin actin'!
  • AZRoboto, on 11/23/2008, -3/+3Hopefully this strike will be about them begging for less money...

    Otherwise, I'll just stick to playing games and watching Simpsons/Family Guy/South Park re-runs.
  • Floyder, on 11/23/2008, -2/+15- "hey! we want some of that money!"
    - "What money?"
    - "That....Internet money...ya! the Internet money, buddy!"
    - "I'm not your buddy, guy!"
  • wellstd1, on 11/23/2008, -1/+6I respect the actors' desires to get what they deserve from these greedy companies like the writers attempted to do. However, this is just not the time to pick this fight. Sign a contract and fight your fight when the economy is better.
  • wunksta, on 11/23/2008, -2/+23MATT DAMON
  • peaceninja, on 11/23/2008, -1/+2actors should keep acting if they want to make money. this residual income is ***** and they are hastening an increase in pirated content
    • TrevorBelmont, on 11/23/2008, -2/+1If you'd read the article you'd have seen that "Many SAG members rely on residuals for more than half of their income".
      This isn't some trivial "*****" like you've claimed, this is their careers and lives.
      Is it possible that it's the studios you should be mad at for trying to ***** the actors and refusing to be reasonable?
    • fizban, on 11/23/2008, -2/+1You think it's easy to "keep acting" - most actors wouldn't be actors, and the quality of your shows wouldn't be as good, if not for residual payments that keep them able to put food on the table. You should try going months between each job, working for a couple of days or weeks, then having another stretch of no work for months. It's a difficult life. If the producers get to make money from each run of a show - advertising dollars - then the actor who helped CREATE the product deserves a cut as well!

      Think of it this way. Let's say you sign up to put ads on your website - in today's world, you only have to do the work once of adding the add to your web page, but you still get paid each time the ad gets clicked. But what if you were paid only once upfront, and then the add became really popular and got clicked on lots and lots of times. You'd want the money from those clicks, right?
      • Steeple, on 11/23/2008, -1/+5most of us would get a second job rather than sit on our ass and wait for free money to arrive
      • cowman80i9, on 11/23/2008, -1/+3Not if I knew that going in to the contract. If I thought it would be popular I would want residuals, if I didn't then I'd take the pay and move on.
      • RobotBuddha, on 11/23/2008, -1/+2The quality of shows is good? There's only about three or four shows on right now that I'd consider good. The vast majority are both badly written and acted.
  • andrewthrice, on 11/23/2008, -0/+6Sirens in the background...

    Say goodbye, say goodbye to Hollywood
    Say goodbye, say goodbye to Hollywood
    Hollywooooooooood....


  • Mujokan, on 11/23/2008, -0/+10Only a tiny proportion of them are rich celebrities. Most of them don't make much. But their timing sucks here. The studios will be playing hardball, given the state of the economy.
  • TrevorBelmont, on 11/23/2008, -1/+5Every time a new form of media comes out (home video in the 80's, now the internet) the brass at Hollywood tries to play an angle where they claim that this new medium is totally different than the ones covered by the current deal so no one should get paid but them. That's the nuts and bolts of what the writers strike was about. Now that's what they're trying to do to actors. They're saying they can hire non-union talent and not pay them residuals.
    I don't like the idea of another strike but I think it's the right thing for them to do. It'd be easy to make the actors look greedy on this one; all the actors we know by name are rich already. This strike isn't for their benefit, it's to protect the work-a-day little guy. If they can't get a square deal, lots of onscreen talent are gonna get *****.
  • 12916studios, on 11/23/2008, -0/+4In all likelihood this will not happen. SAG has many many thousands of members, most of whom would rather work for what they might get now, than stop and see what they could get, because they know how much it will ***** up the economy. The Writer's strike was a good thing, because the writers were getting seriously shafted. But honestly, SAG is just being greedy now.
  • brainboy77, on 11/23/2008, -1/+6not again. this is *****. sure writers get the shaft a lot, but actors get paid pretty damn well. this is complete *****. why the ***** must they screw with tv? why? seriously, i want one year with a full ***** season of tv shows. is that too much to ask? i mean come the ***** on. ***** SAG!
    • cubicledrone, on 11/23/2008, -2/+0What about the studios? Ever notice the studios are completely blameless to the point of never being mentioned? Do you even know what the actors are asking for? No. You just automatically blame the actors because they have to go on strike or they get screwed.
  • DavidTrom, on 11/23/2008, -0/+3God dammit is right! what is wrong with the Actors Guild
    This whole year went down the drain; first with the WGA strike at the beginning of the year and them the "threat" of a SAG strike the rest of the year.

    This year nothing go greelighted and everything was going half-speed this whole year.

    If SAG wanted to have a strike the could had strike on June-July, by now we may had been done with. Now this BS is going to prolong the agony another 6 moths (minimum).

    TAKE the WGA contract dammit! and start preparing for the next negotiation. Learn the lesson from this year, Don't start thinking about your contract "after" it expires.
    Sign a short contract (3 years) start working with all the other unions WGA, DGA, even IATSE and for the next contract EVERYBODY negotiate at the same time.

    So producers can not use the same playbook that they are using this years, where the just negotiated with each union one by one while dragging down the whole industry in a slowdown than we the workers can not sustain but they can very well afford with their ginormus Corporate Umbrella.

    Studios are only a division of much larger corporate conglomerates they can outlast a slowdown without much pain.
  • RoboCafaz, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2Wow, good going, S.A.G. You really made the world a better place, didn'tcha, S.A.G.?
  • iJman, on 11/23/2008, -2/+3Um... Will Smith donated 300 turkeys in Denver at the premiere for his new movie.

    Why is a photo of him being used as the cover for this?
  • tsukasa13, on 11/23/2008, -5/+5Some of these ***** comments are just unbelievable.
    It's not about the ***** stars. Sure, they want more money...
    But you need to remember that almost every person in the background, every person who says a line, who makes an appearence, those are actors. They spend long days on sets, trying to make it somewhere in the buisness, and don't get paid ***** while executive producers gobble up fat paychecks for literally doing nothing. These actors have to survive on tips working in the food industry at night because they don't get paid *****. They deserve a bigger cut.
    I'm not saying I support the strike. I'm just against everyone berating actors. Superstars make up a very small fraction of actors, and the SAG as a whole.
    • PussInBoots, on 11/23/2008, -0/+3Doing nothing? You mean by providing their money that they EARNED from their investment projects?
    • Steeple, on 11/23/2008, -0/+6...no one owes them a living, be an actor or don't, but don't whine if you can't make a go of it
    • buddypriefert, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1The last time I checked, there was no law forcing people to choose acting as an income.

      Something tells me that the last time I checked, there was no law forcing me to buy an American made car, nor buying a house that was too big for my budget. But then again, since people aren't buying GM cars or paying their mortgages, I guess the Government can force me to provide a Bailout to Hollywood in addition to the Big 3 and Fannie Mae.
    • OutlawSundown, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1The people in the background saying short single lines are extras in almost every case. They get paid 20 bucks for a day of busting their hump. You don't realize how much films and TV shows use them. I mean seriously aside from the named actors everyone else you see is almost always an extra.
  • imasuperDOTcom, on 11/23/2008, -2/+6So awesome.

    This reminds me of those Anti-Piracy commericals they were showing at the beginning of movies in the theatres for a while. You remember don't you? "You may think stealing movies doesn't hurt anyone......But it does. The lighting Crew... the makup artists... [insert peon crew member title here]"

    What a bunch of BS that was. Maybe if they weren't paying the blockbuster starts 20 million a movie, and the director 15 million, they'd be able to pay everyone else a little more.

    What a crock. Hollywood blows.
  • shibagarden, on 11/23/2008, -0/+4Can't they just CGI that *****?
  • bradspry, on 11/23/2008, -0/+19Dear Hollywood,

    Please make something worth a *****.


    Thank you,

    Movie Lovers
    • mwilhelm, on 11/24/2008, -0/+1Your cries for quality entertainment fall upon deaf ears.
  • breakaway, on 11/23/2008, -0/+4They should just execute one of these actors. The quickest way to make the others fall back in line.
    • Ne007, on 11/23/2008, -0/+3yes...every time they request more money...a hypothetical cap gets busted into their asses...
    • Steeple, on 11/23/2008, -0/+3fear of this battlestation will keep them in line
      • overridemymind, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy an actor is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
  • dekuscrub, on 11/23/2008, -0/+5It's the Film Actors Guild!
  • RenovatioInc, on 11/23/2008, -1/+12How about a viewers' strike?
  • dmark77, on 11/23/2008, -1/+3LA can always use more waiters.

    Go ahead and strike. I'll say hi when I'm at the Diner.
  • fuckdiggbitches, on 11/23/2008, -1/+3SAG is going to go on strike. What a bunch of greedy assholes. Forcing companies to use Union labor. Most of the Unions basically force their members into joining by basically blackballing them and *****. Before Unions had a purpose. Better working conditions and better pay. But now they are a bunch of greedy bastards always asking for more until they price themselves out of business. No wonder a lot of shows are being filmed in CANADA and other places. Don't give these greedy bastards *****. If their shows/movies are streamed online they should get residuals but to force these media companies to hire union actors for their online webisodes is ridiculous.
    • cubicledrone, on 11/23/2008, -1/+1The studios refused to grant the writers four cents income on each dollar. Shows being filmed in Canada has zero to do with unions. They did ask for residuals, and the studios said no. That's why the writers went on strike and its why the actors are going on strike.

      And if they weren't in a union they wouldn't get *****.

  • Goldbricker, on 11/23/2008, -0/+8More reality shows and prime time games shows......YAY!

    /sarcasm
    • linkerm, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Agreed -- I never thought I'd come to this, but there is literally no broadcast program on TV I will really take time out for anymore. I do watch some things on Revision 3 and CommandN, but that's it.

      So who cares? I'm more interested in who the heck to pay for my kids college education now that their 529s tanked.
  • agentzero141970, on 11/23/2008, -0/+4meh, youtube wins.
    • ProfessorRiffs, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Awesome movie on the big screen > Cool youtube vid.

      Easy math.
    • Jones82, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1youtube doesn't win anything
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