Universal accused of pruning trees to remove shade for picketing SAG members – news

Among the stars seen holding banners are Thelma and Luisa Actor Susan Sarandon and Jason Sudeikis, Comedy star and creator Ted Lasso.

Allison Janney, Timothy Olyphant, Josh Gad, Ben Schwartz, Sean Astin, Charlie Barnett, Joey King, Chloe Fineman, Ginnifer Goodwin, Patton Oswalt, Marg Helgenberger, Jake McDorman, Constance Zimmer and Michelle Hurd have also been seen showing solidarity in Los Angeles . and New York.

Parks and Recreation co-creator Mike Schur said Deadline: “Now a thousand very attractive people have turned up and joined the ranks, it’s an enormous amount of wind in our sails.”

Devon Sawa has joined the throng of actors sharing industry horror stories amid the SAG-AFTRA union strike that has brought Hollywood to a standstill.

Final destination The 44-year-old Sawa star reportedly took to Twitter on Friday (July 14) to allege she never got paid for her cameo in Final Destination 5 (2011).

Sawa’s character, Alex Browning: the protagonist of the original 2000 Final destination film: appears briefly in the fifth installment of the franchise using footage from the first film.

The ‘Final Destination’ star also claimed he was not told he was in the film despite being invited to the premiere.

On Monday (July 17), actor Kevin Bacon joined the picket line in New York City to protest streamers and studios.

speaking to AP Entertainment about who he’s fighting for, the Mercilessly Star, 65, singled out AI as a “big deal,” adding that “all of these things,” including basic pay, “are things that I can personally negotiate, but I’m here for the working class, part of the middle class. “. of our union, which needs these basic provisions in its basic contract.”

In light of the historic move by the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) to join its fellow union, the Writers Guild of America (WGA), in striking against studios and broadcasters, Actors and writers have shared horror stories that highlight the same corporate greed the combined unions are fighting against.

The Actors Union and the Writers Union have joined in the fight for fair wages and higher broadcast waste.

Mandy Moore joined her “fellow SAG-AFTRA and WGA members” in “demanding a fair contract.”

“I think AI is a big problem,” A-lister said from the SAG-AFTRA picket line in New York.

The world premiere of the Disney film on Saturday (July 15), starring Tiffany Haddish and Jamie Lee Curtis, is the first major Hollywood event to take place without any actors in attendance.

“I feel very ambivalent about it, but at the same time, I’m very proud of this cast and I’m very, very proud of Katie Dippold, who wrote the script, and a lot of why I did this was to honor her words and to honor her work,” said director Justin Simien the hollywood reporter in the rug.

“If they can’t be here to speak for it, I felt like I had to be here to speak for it. It’s sad that they’re not here, at the same time, I totally support the reason they’re not here. And I’m happy to be the one to ring the bell for him.”

While the ongoing double walkout, which effectively shut down Hollywood, is a historic event, it’s not the first of its kind.

In 1960, the industry experienced its first joint strike between the Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) and the Writers Guild of America.

The strike was led by Ronald Reagan, who was the president of the SAG at the time, years before his presidency in the United States.

The WGA went on strike for the first time, starting on January 16, 1960, before SAG-AFTRA began its own strike on March 7, 1960. While the last one ended with picketing on April 18, 1960 , the previous strike lasted until June 12, 1960.

While the total membership comprises more than 160,000 people, only the 65,000 artists in film and television productions are currently participating in the strike.

The Screen Actors Guild announced industrial action to coincide with the writers’ strike