Disney (and others) at the Box Office - Current State of Affairs

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Well they have over 160 Emmy nominations this year so not the worst at all, no matter how hard the haters try to spin it.

…nobody cares about awards…and never have

I look forward to hearing your recap of the VMAs though

 

[TsWade2]

Well they have over 160 Emmy nominations this year so not the worst at all, no matter how hard the haters try to spin it.

Well, I appreciate that you tried to cheer me up, thanks, except I don't necessarily watch the Emmy Awards. I watched it once, but I didn't like it. But, again, thanks for trying to cheer me up.

 

[BuddyThomas]

Well, I appreciate that you tried to cheer me up, thanks, except I don't necessarily watch the Emmy Awards. I watched it once, but I didn't like it. But, again, thanks for trying to cheer me up.

I wasn’t trying to cheer you up but over 160 Emmy award nominations means quality and not only that, they are expected to win a lot of them, some in major categories.

 

[TsWade2]

I wasn’t trying to cheer you up but over 160 Emmy award nominations means quality and not only that, they are expected to win a lot of them, some in major categories.

Well, I guess that sounds fine, even though I have no interest of watching the Emmy Awards.

 

[DKampy]

Well, I guess that sounds fine, even though I have no interest of watching the Emmy Awards.

Well I have my doubts the Emmy awards will air anyway with both writers and sag on strike

 

[TsWade2]

Well I have my doubts the Emmy awards will air anyway with both writers and sag on strike

If it's cancelled, that's fine.

 

[brb1006]

I guess Hollywood and Disney is doomed!

Calm down, plus Disney is no stranger to anything strike related and managed to survive. (1941 Animator's Strike)

 

[Jedijax719]

I don't understand the strike. Are actors and actresses who get paid millions of dollars going on strike?

 

[TsWade2]

Calm down, plus Disney is no stranger to anything strike related and managed to survive. (1941 Animator's Strike)

Don't worry. I know. I'm better now.

 

[wtyy21]

I don't understand the strike. Are actors and actresses who get paid millions of dollars going on strike?

If many actors/actresses are part of SAG/AFTRA, yes. If actors/actresses did not part of that, is no.

 

[DKampy]

I don't understand the strike. Are actors and actresses who get paid millions of dollars going on strike?

Not every working actor get millions of dollars… most working actors don’t

 

[BuddyThomas]

Well, I guess that sounds fine, even though I have no interest of watching the Emmy Awards.

No one is asking you to watch the Emmy Awards. It probably will not exist this year due to all the strikes. That doesn't stop the fact that Disney is expected to win a lot of the awards.

 

[Disney Irish]

I don't understand the strike. Are actors and actresses who get paid millions of dollars going on strike?

SAG AFTRA has over 160,000 members, over 70% of them don't even earn the minimum of $26,000 to even qualify for insurance. I believe the number is less than 2% of the over 160,000 members are actually millionaires.

The public only pays attention to the top tier of the SAG AFTRA members, ie the millionaires. So they are the ones striking to get better conditions and better pay for the 98% of the members that aren't millionaires.

 

[Jedijax719]

SAG AFTRA has over 160,000 members, over 70% of them don't even earn the minimum of $26,000 to even qualify for insurance. I believe the number is less than 2% of the over 160,000 members are actually millionaires.

The public only pays attention to the top tier of the SAG AFTRA members, ie the millionaires. So they are the ones striking to get better conditions and better pay for the 98% of the members that aren't millionaires.

Thanks for the info. Yeah, I just did some searching and found the same info. Personally, I'm all for it if it means better treatment for that 98%.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

There’s no solution that either side can accept in either the writers or actors strike.

Not hard to figure it out either

 

[Casper Gutman]

I've said repeatedly that I think, at the moment, extending Iger is the best-case scenario given broader cultural, political, and economic forces. I still think that's true. But given his comments about the strike today, I just want to vent that its utterly infuriating that Wall Street and corporate America and popular understandings of how businesses should operate and a host of other factors are so unbelievably distorted and broken that an odious worm like Iger is the best we can hope for.

 

[Casper Gutman]

I don't understand the strike. Are actors and actresses who get paid millions of dollars going on strike?

They are also striking to try and keep studios from replacing human creativity with AI, an issue that has much broader implications. Honestly, we're at an amazing moment in human history - corporations seeking to boost quarterly profits are attempting to replace human creativity - human empathy, human humor, human insight, the soul itself - with computers. If you had written this as a dystopian satire in the 60s it would have been too on the nose, too preposterous, But normalcy bias is so strong, apathy so tempting, and political tribalism so consuming that we're barely disturbed by what's happening.

As with so many things in the last decade, this is a BIG BIG turning point in human history, and folks in the moment just can't see it.

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

I've said repeatedly that I think, at the moment, extending Iger is the best-case scenario given broader cultural, political, and economic forces. I still think that's true. But given his comments about the strike today, I just want to vent that its utterly infuriating that Wall Street and corporate America and popular understandings of how businesses should operate and a host of other factors are so unbelievably distorted and broken that an odious worm like Iger is the best we can hope for.

Every comment he made was tone deaf, delusional and revolting

But it was scripted to “send a message” to the investors. So apparently “robber baron” is gonna be the out in the open strategy from now on?

 

[Sirwalterraleigh]

They are also striking to try and keep studios from replacing human creativity with AI, an issue that has much broader implications. Honestly, we're at an amazing moment in human history - corporations seeking to boost quarterly profits are attempting to replace human creativity - human empathy, human humor, human insight, the soul itself - with computers. If you had written this as a dystopian satire in the 60s it would have been too on the nose, too preposterous, But normalcy bias is so strong, apathy so tempting, and political tribalism so consuming that we're barely disturbed by what's happening.

As with so many things in the last decade, this is a BIG BIG turning point in human history, and folks in the moment just can't see it.

Very Orwellian

Do you find it odd that AI is barreling toward Jurassic park territory now after 2 years of “wage gains by workers” was the lead story?

I rarely believe in coincidence

 

[flynnibus]

I don't understand the strike. Are actors and actresses who get paid millions of dollars going on strike?

You do realize there are many more performers in the acting eotld than the tom cruises and scarlet johansons right?