Monday, July 24, 2023

The studio behind 2022's best sci-fi movie shines a light through Hollywood's crisis

The coolest place for pushing the cinematic envelope is now proving a strike misconception wrong.

Hollywood has ground to a halt as actors and writers strike for better wages and protections against AI, but there’s one big exception to productions completely being shut down: SAG-AFTRA waivers, which allow completely independent studios to continue production.

One beloved production company has secured two of these — and could be an optimistic model for the future.

A24’s two high-profile productions going strong, it appears that the situation in Hollywood isn’t as dire as it appeared at the beginning of the strike. Fans can get excited about two new star-studded A24 projects that they can watch knowing the people behind them were treated fairly according to the union. But also, these productions prove that the “unreasonable” requests made by the union aren’t unreasonable at all. FULL STORY from Inverse

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