Sony will break. Their stock is tanking due to the strikes and they have no streaming service to protect. It only takes that to start the end of the strike.

The studios are making money. Including the streamers. The accounting is deceptive to appear “in the red.” And Disney makes most of their money from their theme parks/attractions — not their studio. By a massive amount. The tv/films are, in essence, marketing costs for their real earners and brand recognition.

The monetary compensation came up but the loopholes that negate those increases remain.

This is only part of the problem (pollution accumulation.)

Please tell me he’s insured by Tesla.

The two RR Boat Tails were gorgeous. The rear lines actually made sense how they swept down. The wood deck went all the way to the edge. (The blue/black one is less beautiful though the did show, at one point, a light blue with elm/light wood deck that was also great)

612 Scaglietti was a better GT car. And its precursor, the 456GT, was a better sleeper/executive car. Boss had both (along with the 550) and we had “douche” ratings for the cars. The 550 always got the “this guy’s having a midlife crisis” vibes (especially in LA.)

This does not prolong the strike. Literally the last strike was broken when the smaller studios agreed to deals with the unions (at that point it included MRC and The Weinstein Company.) The idea is to divide and conquer — for both sides. Breaking up studios (whether large or small) to get them to agree with the…

His promo tour isn’t over. He has specifically asked for a promo waiver this past week.

He’s very much a producer (and quite frankly, by all accounts including my friend who works on the MI movies, the director with Christopher McQuarrie a sad chump.) On top of that, besides his production company, he’s owned a studio. He’s a studio lackey who still has SAG-AFTRA membership.

And City Councilmember

Sorry, said city auditor. It’s LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia — who, by definition, is our auditor but that’s not his title.

There’s an update to the story. The city auditor is looking into the tree trimming because it was not sanctioned (the trees are under city control.) The trimming was more severe than it has ever been and the wrong time of year. There is no required permit on file to do it privately and the city itself did not do it.

It is NOT operating the same as it always was. Do you know anyone who works at SpaceX? Musk is an attention whore and likes to be the face of the company but the company, behind the scenes, is led by others and up until recently, Musk stayed out of it. He was much more distracted/involved in Tesla — which is how…

Musk’s own engineers told him that they needed to build this years ago.

Plenty of studios (in recent years) have closed/shuttered/sold under the best of circumstances. If studios thought they could survive/thrive under current supply/legacy content, they would. It’s pure capitalism.

Jim Jordan ignored a subpoena from Congress. Everyone else should get the same rights. Meta should tell him to Fk off.

They weren’t allowed in 2007. And that bargaining closed some loopholes the WGA could see coming. But the way the WGA won out of that is they broke the AMPTP solidarity and made deals. So then some studios (Weinsteins, MRC, Paramount) could continue to work while others were still under strike.

They are allowed to truncate scenes and omit lines (or even words.) They cannot add lines/words.

It isn’t, really. It’s part of the agreement. And everyone knows in the industry that breaking these rules could end your production company. Only way for these contracts to have any teeth. Otherwise I’m sure all the studios would flagrantly violate the agreed upon contracts. (All union members also have outreach…