While Hollywood comes to a standstill amid the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, two HBO reveals will proceed to movie overseas.
House of the Dragon and Industry will proceed filming their second and third seasons, respectively, in the UK.
The TV information broke simply hours after SAG-AFTRA licensed a strike with a blistering assertion geared toward the AMPTP.
Variety reported Thursday that manufacturing plans to proceed as scheduled on House of the Dragon Season 2.
The solid of each reveals are primarily British and are working underneath Equity contracts as opposed to SAG-AFTRA ones.
Equity, the British performing union, revealed in a press release Thursday night that “SAG-AFTRA members currently working under an Equity UK collective bargaining agreement should continue to report to work.”
“Industrial relations legislation in the United Kingdom is draconian, and often viewed as the most restrictive in the Western world,” the Equity steerage mentioned.
“The convoluted and pernicious hurdles faced by all unions in the United Kingdom are a national disgrace and need urgent reform.”
“The regrettable consequence of this framework is that what artists working in the United Kingdom – whether SAG-AFTRA and/or Equity members (or both) – can do, may be different from their comrades in the United States and other parts of the world.”
Equity additionally vowed that it “stands in unwavering solidarity” with SAG-AFTRA.
“SAG-AFTRA’s claim to the producers contains many critical elements for performers on their agreements,” Equity mentioned.
“The key elements of the claim are longstanding, shared fights for our unions –issues like pay and residual payments. But SAG-AFTRA, like Equity, is also bravely facing head-on existential questions on issues like Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the rise in virtual auditions and self-tapes,” the assertion continues.
“Securing equity in pay, phrases, and circumstances is crucial whether or not they be with conventional producers, or new international streamers, and with new modes of making and distributing work to a worldwide viewers.
U.S. shops had been reporting earlier this week that House of the Dragon Season 2 could be one of the greatest initiatives affected by the strike, nevertheless it appears they had been underneath the assumption the actors had been working underneath SAG-AFTRA contracts.
With the improvement, there is a good likelihood House of the Dragon Season 2 will make its deliberate summer time 2024 premiere on the premium cabler.
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