Unexpected Winners and Losers of the Hollywood Labor Strikes

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Matt is joined by Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw to discuss some of the unexpected winners and losers in the wake of the strikes, highlighting those who suffered from collateral damage or perhaps benefited from fortuitous timing during Hollywood's extended shutdown. For a 20 percent discount on Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter, ‘What I’m Hearing ...,’ click here. Email us your thoughts! thetown@spotify.com Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Lucas Shaw Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.9	It is Monday, November 20th. One of the problems with labor strikes is that when they're over,
0:51.2	it's hard to tell who won and lost. In the six months of writers and actors' strikes, it just finished.
0:57.1	Both unions got some pretty impressive gains and things like basic wages, bonuses in streaming,
1:02.5	and AI. All those are wins, although there's some debate about the AI one, as we've covered.
1:08.1	But could these guilds have gotten more? Did Sag Afterra and the WGA leave important things on the table or even focus on the entirely
1:16.0	wrong issues.
1:17.5	It's just hard to tell.
1:18.6	And a lot of the success of these deals is going to be dependent on how the application
1:22.7	plays out in the real world, which is kind of unknown.
1:26.2	So today we're going to do a winners and losers of the strikes show, but we're going to do it from a little bit of a
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