Comments (6)

• are people still allowed to go to this?

  Comment by revenge of the slow — Monday June 1, 2009 @ 10:39pm PST  Reply to this post

• If union history has any bearing for SAG and AFTRA, in the late eighties the UAW got in bed with GM etc, joint gigs, conferences etc.

  Sort of like a streethooker who lies down in bed for free trying to look like a call girl hanging with the rich johns. It never works out for the hooker and sometimes like GM everybody finds themselves out on the street without any money.

  So instead of paying their members great residuals they want be seen as PLAYERS with the IN/OUT crowd and be seen as a sponsor for THE NEW HOLLYWOOD. Umh as they said at Script Expo six years ago film is a dieing industry, the few million they spend at this conference could of been a few pennies in their members residual check. Pennies make dollars.

  Comment by 8movies5plays — Tuesday June 2, 2009 @ 4:00am PST  Reply to this post

• You’re right Nikki. Why spend time in the same room with discussing issues of mutual interest with producers when you can stand out on the street carrying signs complaining that the people inside won’t talk to you?

  Comment by Puzzled — Tuesday June 2, 2009 @ 9:03am PST  Reply to this post

• You know and we all know that the producers gathering this weekend are not the studio heads who are negotiating against SAG. These are the people who spend years and years developing projects that are turned into scripts by WGA writers that then are offered to the SAG actors. Without these people there are not roles to play, no wages to make. We should support them as much as we can – they are NOT the studios trying to screw the actors!

  Comment by a producer who is not a studio — Tuesday June 2, 2009 @ 10:20am PST  Reply to this post

• Its just another, in a long line of recent attempts by AFTRA, to raid SAG jurisdiction. AFTRA needs the constant stream, of new aspiring actors, paying that $1500.00 initiation fee. Anyone can join. Online!

  AFTRA is officially only granted jurisdiction in “live” TV by the NLRB. Sitcoms and Soaps, which originally were “live”. The production had to be broadcast, as it was shot, kinda like the academy awards. AFTRA got “live” jurisdiction in a convoluted way by absorbing a defunct union called the TvA. AFTRA is a broadcasters union, with roots in live radio broadcasts.

  AFTRA somehow feels that a digital cameras mean that they now share SAG jurisdiction in TV. 99% of actors would decertify AFTRA as an actors union, TODAY, if they could…

  AFTRA is the cause of all the chaos in Hollywood. AFTRA has betrayed actors. Ed Asner is right.

  Comment by Joe Brown — Tuesday June 2, 2009 @ 12:58pm PST  Reply to this post

• http://www.SAGIndie.org offers discount registration for SAG members to attend the “Produced By” conference.

  Comment by Mimi — Tuesday June 2, 2009 @ 4:11pm PST  Reply to this post