Evening Edition: Actors Join Writers In Historic Hollywood Strike

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists union (SAG-AFTRA) has joined the Writers Guild of America (WGA) at the picket line in an attempt to negotiate new contracts with producers. This will put a full stop on production coming out of Hollywood as performers seek to improve wages and create guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence in making movies and television. FOX's Eben Brown speaks with Joe Flint, media and entertainment reporter for the Wall Street Journal, who explains what the performers are after and how streaming services complicate negotiations. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Shannon Bream, I'm Bill Hemmer, I'm Kennedy and this is the Fox News rundown.
0:09.3	Friday, July 14, 2023, I'm Evan Brown.
0:13.7	The performers you watch on your favorite movies and TV shows, especially on the streaming
0:18.6	sites, are now striking along with writers who say they deserve better pay and not to
0:24.9	have their work taken by computers.
0:27.3	Actors and writers don't feel they're being compensated enough for their work and at
0:33.6	the same time, the parent companies say, we're not making the money we use to.
0:39.0	This isn't the old days.
0:40.8	Keep your expectations down a little because they're just not going to fly anymore.
0:44.9	This is the Fox News rundown evening edition.
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1:03.5	week.
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1:09.4	The combined labor union of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television
1:14.5	and Radio Artists known as SAG AFTRA are now striking Hollywood studios joining in on
1:20.6	a work stoppage by members of the writers Guild of America, the union for those who create
1:25.2	the scripts and the stories turned into television shows and movies, even the ones you stream.
1:30.9	Why are they striking?
1:32.5	As with most strikes, this one is about how much they get paid and we're used to seeing
1:36.6	movie stars earn big paychecks, but at the heart of this is the changing landscape that
1:41.8	is less big time Hollywood studio and more small digital production house and in an age
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