From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

As SAG AFTER members vote on the hard-fought deal, they're gild struck with the studios.

There is dissension in the ranks.

Union advisor Justine Bateman tells us about her AI concerns,

while SAG-After chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree Ireland says the union got the best deal possible.

I'm not trying to tell members that this deal is perfect. I'm not trying to tell members that they shouldn't be concerned about AI. Both of those things are correct. What I would say to members is this contract before this new deal had no protections for AI in it at all.

Blank page. Bateman wanted a deal that defines a performer as a human being.

Crab Tree Ireland says the guild will fight another day in just two and a half years.

But first we banter.

Stick around.

It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my buddy in banter.

Matt Bellany.

Hello, Matt.

Hi there. So, we are going into the holidays. Hollywood can celebrate the end of the strikes, assuming that Sagaftera approves the deal, but the box office has turned into a huge problem. Disney saw the marvels open to a very low number and then drop like a stone. Then the

Hunger Games came on to the field of play and flopped in China as a lot of things are flopping in

China, these big movies that Chinese audiences used to love. And that was the market that was

depended on for a lot of money. So we're looking at a pretty lean Christmas,

I think, for the studios, unless something suddenly pops out. Yeah, I mean, a lot is going against

the studios this holiday season because a number of movies were bumped out of this corridor

to next year, the Ghostbusters sequel, Dune, there were a couple others as well. And there's a lot of

question marks. I mean, we really don't have an all-audience surefire going to be a smash movie.

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