The original Power Rangers made like minimum wage or something crazy low. That $800 million economic burden the studios bemoan is probably living wages for people.
Woods said that if the company paid the guild’s minimum rates for child and adult actors it would add 40 percent to the cost of producing the live-action shows, which in some cases would prevent them from turning a profit. “We’d love to come to an agreement with SAG, but not at the expense of turning over the keys to them,” he said.
But Masur said that explanation was ridiculous. He said Saban earned more than $300 million on “Power Rangers” alone in 1996 and that other children’s programmers, such as Warner Bros. and Disney, manage to earn a profit while paying SAG rates. The guild president said performers on Saban productions are paid a small fraction of the standard rate for the entertainment industry, and often do not receive benefits such as pension, health and residual income from rebroadcasts. He said that actors with speaking parts in Saban productions earn $200 a day, instead of the $559 that SAG has established as the industry minimum.
Same fight, a different day (the article’s from January 1998). They were making $300M dollars a year, but “couldn’t” pay SAG minimums of $559 a day for speaking actors.
“we won’t be able to make a profit if we have to fairly pay people” should always be met with “good.”
We put people on the moon, you can figure out how to turn a profit on a world-famous IP brand.
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Help actors get paid during the strike, support unions and labor movements, and have your chance to look like an actual celebrity. What’s not to love?
God the movies and tv are gonna suck the next couple of years, just as we were getting back on schedule after covid (to be clear I support the unions and their actions, I just know this is going to mess up and delay a bunch of stuff)
I hope they get the compensation and rights they deserve. I have so much to catch up on anyway.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The studios announced that they had suspended contract negotiations late Wednesday (11 October) night, saying the gap between the two sides was too great to make continuing worth it.
On 2 October, for the first time since the strike began 14 July, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists had resumed negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents studios, streaming services and production companies in strike talks.
When negotiations resumed with writers last month, their strike ended five days later, but similar progress was not made with the actors union.
The SAG-AFTRA proposal would cost companies an additional $800 million a year and create “an untenable economic burden,” the statement said.
Actors have been on strike over issues including increases in pay for streaming programming and control of the use of their images generated by artificial intelligence.
Members of the Writers Guild of America voted almost unanimously to ratify their new contract on Monday.
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