A number of acquainted faces are anticipated to attend the 2023 Venice Film Festival regardless of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike.
Adam Driver and Jessica Chastain are amongst just some of the A-list celebrities set to seem at the annual occasion — which kicks off on Wednesday, August 30, and runs till Saturday, September 9 — as a consequence of being granted an interim waiver by the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA).
The guild launched an announcement on Sunday, August 27, increasing on the parameters of the settlement, which permits actors to advertise unbiased tasks that weren’t produced by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) — and clarified that these selling their indie work should not thought of to be crossing the picket line. (Members are nonetheless barred from selling any of their present or future tasks linked to struck firms — the studios — via press appearances, pink carpets and conventions.)
“Some of our fellow members have been subject to negative comments for participating in projects with an Interim Agreement, particularly when it comes time for them to promote their work, including at festivals. Whether from within or without our organization, not only are remarks of this nature unhelpful to performers, but by dividing us, they do the AMPTP’s work for them,” the assertion reads. “To be crystal clear, once an agreement is in place, we fully encourage all of our SAG-AFTRA members to work under that agreement AND to promote work made under that agreement. The more projects that get made with the Interim Agreement, the weaker the AMPTP becomes. So, let’s lift up our fellow performers who are out there working.”
See Amy Adams, Elizabeth Banks and More Stars on the SAG-AFTRA Picket Line
The greatest names in Hollywood are displaying their help for the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike by becoming a member of their fellow union members on the picket traces. In July, the labor union — which represents greater than 160,000 TV and movie actors — voted to go on strike after the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) […]
The union added that seeing actors attend festivals for non-major studio work is a “source of pride” which permits company executives to “look out and see these independent projects thriving, while their greed and disrespect holds up their own productions.”
According to Variety, Driver, 39, will seem in Venice for Micheal Mann’s Ferrari, during which he performs the titular character, whereas Chastain, 46, shall be in attendance for Michel Franco’s Memory. Landry Jones, Jacob Elordi, Cailee Spaeny and Mads Mikkelsen are additionally scheduled to attend.
SAG-AFTRA has been on strike since July, whereas the Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) has been marching the picket traces since May. Both labor unions started their strikes as a consequence of comparable points with the AMPTP together with an settlement on truthful wages, residuals and the use of synthetic intelligence in the business.
“This is a very seminal hour for us. I went in thinking that we would be able to avert a strike. The gravity of this move is not lost on me,” Fran Drescher, president of the guild, said in a press convention someday earlier than the strike took impact. “It’s a very serious thing that impacts thousands, if not millions of people all across this country and around the world. Not only members of this union, but people who work in other industries that service the people that work in this industry. … We had no choice. We are the victims here. We are being victimized by a very greedy entity.”
Every Cast Reunion at the SAG-AFTRA Strike Picket Line
Actors and writers of Us Weekly‘s favourite exhibits and films have been reuniting on the picket traces amid the historic WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike. The labor dispute initially made headlines in May 2023 when the Writers Guild of America introduced that their contract negotiation with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers had stalled. […]
Meanwhile, the AMPTP — who represents the main studios together with Paramount, Netflix, Amazon, Universal and Warner Bros. — responded in an announcement that mentioned its members had been dissatisfied by the breakdown in negotiations, calling the strike “the Union’s choice, not ours.”
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