I'd not heard of Ted before. He makes some excellent points. He is absolutely correct about silicon valley and the impact it has on many different industries.
Great podcast! Just wanted to let you know - a lot of Soviet movies, including Come And See are actually uploaded on TH-cam by official channels, and at almost half have English subtitles.
Great chat Jeff. Highly endorse those two Aussie film recommendations from Ted Breaker Morant and Gallipoli are two superb films. Iconic films in Australia. Guaranteed you'll love both.
I know a lot of people complain about not feeling sorry for actors making millions of dollars. Being someone who has acted in films myself both in Utah and California, I can tell you, that only a very small percentage of actors (top 1-2%) make big money. The rest of us who work in the industry make day to day living wages. Meaning many of us make just a few hundred dollars at day at most. Even acting in films. These executives, studios and shareholders are making the lion share of profit…
@@DemonDog444 you took the easy way out? By looking elsewhere? Instead of fighting for a living wage. I imagine those who worked the most dangerous jobs would have never had OSHA or safety insurances put in place to protect them, had they all done the same back in the day as well… Your answer of “giving up on something, because it isn’t easy”, sounds like a quitters way out. 🤔🤔🤔
Can't wait to listen to this one, the strikes are affecting everyone in the industry. The ripple effect through every department and has been tough to endure; hoping this finally gets resolved soon so myself and others can get back to making a living 😥
It’s hard to tell who cares less about the thousands of unrepresented production workers, AMPTP or the WGA. Crew and support industry are leaving film and television in droves. They don’t have a choice. Good luck having a production industry to come back to.
I am big Columbo fan and was really excited to hear Kino Lorber were doing a 4k box set of the original run. Sadly they have just announced due to unforseen circumstances all the extras won't now be included. Any idea why they have done this? Could it be anything to do with the strike?
I feel like the writers and actors aren't quite understanding that streaming is a whole new ballgame. Ask friends in the music industry how streaming has changed their business.
only one complaint. this was way too short of an interview! so many great points and info. hopefully the strike does not go 100 more days. writers deserve much better than what they are getting.
The little guy needs to get paid a fair share. Big time actors will survive. Live events like sports will survive. Corporations take more of the profits for shareholders. When we had a food strike in 2004 in Southern California the CEOS still made their 11 million bonus while the workers had to survive on 200 dollars a week plus what you saved up. That strike lasted 6 months. We also lost 35 percent of health benefits and pensions. Food is a necessary. Entertainment is not.
Jeff the goal has been to squeeze and price out the middle class (check). Chase the rich out of the cities (check) and socialize the system. The key to socialism is to turn the proletariat against business (check). I agree that entertainment and music has turned corporatized and turn out content equivalent to jelly. I'm in the music business and there is also no money to be made here anymore either.
Thanks for sharing this video, I honestly learned a lot. I hope that the Writers get what they want the movie industry is constantly lying and trying to manipulate people to get as much profit as they can well giving as little as possibly. Also I just want to say about the stranger things dropping on Netflix and then everybody consumes it in three days it’s gone (don’t get me wrong I love stranger things I’m really hoping for season three and four on Blu-ray) but he’s right when I was a kid growing up TV shows had followings and people will talk about them for a year or two. I remember I couldn’t wait for cartoons to come on like the real Ghostbusters,Batman, ninja turtles was a yearly things and then TV shows as I got older like married with children people is always talking about it for years. It’s a different world today and it’s not as good. Also I think the Aldi‘s movie industry is constantly lie to try and push streaming services I know for a fact physical movie sounds really good in Best Buy‘s and they try to act like it doesn’t!!!
Solidarity with WGA and SAG! They deserve everything they are asking for, and the studios are capitalistic pigs hell bent on hurting anyone and everyone in their quest for infinite profit.
@adamstrachn The writers and actors are asking for more than money. Every ask from SAG and WGA is justified and worth fighting for. If the studios won't even acknowledge that, then their offers (which have not once come close to meeting the full demands of the working class people) ring hollow, and they are negotiating in bad faith.
I don’t feel sorry for any actor that whines about needing an increase in living wage while they’re getting paid millions of dollars for every movie they’re not going hungry so when I see Brian Cranston going on interviews complaining how they’re taking food out of his mouth when he’s got millions and millions and millions of dollars I don’t feel sad at all for overpaid ego driven actors that live on their little bubble but try and tell the common people how they should be living while they’re in their castles, the writers on the other hand I somewhat sympathize with them thousands of them are out of work because of AI generating everything but I think a lot of the woke content that has been killing movies and TV shows also contributed to it being used so many of the writers writing the new Star Wars and Star Trek’s and marvel movies and DC movies etc. it’s like the writers weren’t fans of the content to begin with because the writing is terrible that’s why everything Disney and DC and hollywood is putting out have been flops because they don’t seem to get it and keep writing terrible shows and movies pushing virtue signaling and inclusiveness instead of just writing some thing people want to watch. I disagree with him saying the pandemic is the cause it might have been a catalyst but once Hollywood started pushing ideologies and woke garbage people stopped going to theaters and people are starting to drop subscriptions to streaming services because they don’t want a bunch of political and ideology crap shoved down their throat they just want to come home from work to turn on the TV and relax watching some thing that entertains us and they stop doing that therefore they’re losing tons of money now because of it.
Talk about Ignorance. This movement isn’t for big actors or brian Cranston as you so delusional believe. If you don’t understand the subject then don’t regurgitate what you heard from someone else.
@@lxXSuddenDeathXxl I don’t think it’s ignorance at all if anything it’s Hollywood’s been ignorant to half of the population not wanting to watch their crap and they thought they knew better and could keep on pushing shit on people that don’t wanna watch it and now we’re whining because they’re hemorrhaging money. I only use Brian Cranston as one example I don’t care if it’s him or any other actor they’re all over paid just like athletes are in the thousands of writers that keep writing all this no talent crap that they’re putting out so you can call ignorance all you want because you’re probably one of them I think Hollywood getting what it deserved in fact I hope it goes bankrupt maybe they’ll learn to stay out of politics and pushing wokeness and do what they’re getting paid to do which is entertain the rest of us and they wouldn’t be striking to begin with. And writers are not immune to their position anymore than any other job that someone trains by the thousands to do in a market gets saturated with it you know what happens ? they don’t get work🙄 they are no different Hollywood is saturated with them most of them no talent writing crap that are whining about not getting paid enough maybe they need to thin the herd and maybe they’ll actually start getting a wage worth paying them for again I don’t feel sorry for thousands of them out of work because they’re writing a bunch of crap that nobody wants to watch.
@@DaveofAllTrades75 I completely agree with your assessment in your initial post and reply, DoAT75. Ted made a comment about the exec’s operating in a bubble, but fails to acknowledge the same goes for all those creatives. They are all apart of the failure of the industry. Time and technology has changed, and will continue to change, the “entertaiment” industry. Even when the parties come to some terms, I expect conditions will remain relatively unchanged. Certain people with continue to be overpaid, some will earn enough to get by, and many will continue to struggle. Listening to Ted Sullivan, it sounds like striking members are just trying to maintain some level of livelihood as they continue to work in the system. The class system will always remain within their industry. As Ted said, They, including himself, got too comfortable and they were the frog in the slowly boiling water. Well…good news for those of us who have been disappointed by the quality of the output, preached at and castigated by these “creators”. The majority are stuck in the pot with the lid on, and I’m fine with that outcome. The only real change their feelings and so-called ideals bring is destruction. Case and point- Hollywood and the state of California. The rich executives, actors and the like will still make their money, and the rest will provide the backs for the elites to walk on. Also, Yo! This video is too WHITE, ya’ll. Old white men with their white privilege. Where is my diversity and representation?!?
You've got 10,000 union members competing for 2,000 writing jobs and you wonder why no one is making money? Hollywood doesn't need 20 WGA writers to proofread AI-generated superhero sequel scripts. And whoever thought getting a 24 year old vlogger to negotiate with the studios was a good idea was an idiot.
The crazy thing holly wood offered them $11,000 a week and they still wouldn't except it. Apparently their original wage is $10,000 a week. Theses writers are a bunch of babies.
Trying not to take sides but .... The WAG led their dues paying members into a strike having zero leverage. The evil studios save huge money by not paying wages and simply not creating any more money losing flopbusters. Add to this the vast amount of available content both domestic and foreign and a consumer public that feels betrayed by both writers and studios to the point of apathy. This is a no win for WAG. It's like being in a high stakes poker game and going all in with nothing in your hand. What reason (if any) would the studios have to concede? The only time a non union employee can ask for a raise is if they are prepared to leave for another job. Paying dues and thinking you're safe because you have a union looking out for you is just foolish. Blame the Unions or blame the Studios, but don't blame the consumer or beg for their support.
Nothing you said in this post, seems factually incorrect, coming from someone who just watches movies but is not in the movie business. However, I don't think you can blame them for striking, just because they're not in a strong position. If you read the writing on the wall, their working conditions are only going to get worse, so you have to put your foot down sometime.
@@frommatorav1 Seriously...I'm not taking sides. I have been in unions and have quit. One was the AFLCIO when I worked for the US postal service. The point is. You and I and everyone that has been paying for content (mostly poor quality) has been supportive. In return, they have taken to social media to call us racists for not supporting their race/gender political agendas. They accused us of review bombing releases that were really bad. And when oil and gas workers were losing their jobs...they were told to ''learn to code''. Hollywood in total has shut us out of the conversations. This is between the unions and the studios. There is nothing the public can do. It's not our fight. I
How does the consumer public feel betrayed by writers? That's completely made up, I don't see that at all. Plus the rest of your post is dumb and wrong.
What strike? Just watched MEG2 with 17 of our family members in our 85 inch tv......these guy wants socialism in place😂😂😂😂😂😂....America doesn't support woke Hollywood socialist 😂😂😂😂
I'd not heard of Ted before. He makes some excellent points. He is absolutely correct about silicon valley and the impact it has on many different industries.
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Great podcast! Just wanted to let you know - a lot of Soviet movies, including Come And See are actually uploaded on TH-cam by official channels, and at almost half have English subtitles.
Great chat Jeff.
Highly endorse those two Aussie film recommendations from Ted
Breaker Morant and Gallipoli are two superb films.
Iconic films in Australia. Guaranteed you'll love both.
I know a lot of people complain about not feeling sorry for actors making millions of dollars. Being someone who has acted in films myself both in Utah and California, I can tell you, that only a very small percentage of actors (top 1-2%) make big money. The rest of us who work in the industry make day to day living wages. Meaning many of us make just a few hundred dollars at day at most. Even acting in films. These executives, studios and shareholders are making the lion share of profit…
I've had jobs that didn't offer a living wage. Guess what I did?
@@DemonDog444 you took the easy way out? By looking elsewhere? Instead of fighting for a living wage. I imagine those who worked the most dangerous jobs would have never had OSHA or safety insurances put in place to protect them, had they all done the same back in the day as well…
Your answer of “giving up on something, because it isn’t easy”, sounds like a quitters way out. 🤔🤔🤔
Thanks for interview
Shout out to FAH and Ted Sullivan. Such a great video.
Can't wait to listen to this one, the strikes are affecting everyone in the industry. The ripple effect through every department and has been tough to endure; hoping this finally gets resolved soon so myself and others can get back to making a living 😥
Great interview Jeff I wonder when this strike will end. It has been going on for a real long time now
This is excellent and very important.
Well done and best wishes to them all.
This was gold! Thank you both!
Great interview! This is the conversation & topics we need.
This was super interesting. I would see an original film Ted writes on his name alone.
It’s hard to tell who cares less about the thousands of unrepresented production workers, AMPTP or the WGA. Crew and support industry are leaving film and television in droves. They don’t have a choice. Good luck having a production industry to come back to.
I am big Columbo fan and was really excited to hear Kino Lorber were doing a 4k box set of the original run. Sadly they have just announced due to unforseen circumstances all the extras won't now be included. Any idea why they have done this? Could it be anything to do with the strike?
I feel like the writers and actors aren't quite understanding that streaming is a whole new ballgame. Ask friends in the music industry how streaming has changed their business.
Do you think there will be an increase in physical media releases? As streaming rights come to an end for certain shows/content.
people around the world are supporting you now unlike 2007
only one complaint. this was way too short of an interview! so many great points and info. hopefully the strike does not go 100 more days. writers deserve much better than what they are getting.
Don't show sympathy for these writers.
The little guy needs to get paid a fair share. Big time actors will survive. Live events like sports will survive. Corporations take more of the profits for shareholders. When we had a food strike in 2004 in Southern California the CEOS still made their 11 million bonus while the workers had to survive on 200 dollars a week plus what you saved up. That strike lasted 6 months. We also lost 35 percent of health benefits and pensions. Food is a necessary. Entertainment is not.
Jeff the goal has been to squeeze and price out the middle class (check). Chase the rich out of the cities (check) and socialize the system. The key to socialism is to turn the proletariat against business (check). I agree that entertainment and music has turned corporatized and turn out content equivalent to jelly. I'm in the music business and there is also no money to be made here anymore either.
Go for. I stopped Netflix membership of 10 years. One was because new stupid Cleopatra
Wow, this comment section is depressing.
Thanks for sharing this video, I honestly learned a lot. I hope that the Writers get what they want the movie industry is constantly lying and trying to manipulate people to get as much profit as they can well giving as little as possibly. Also I just want to say about the stranger things dropping on Netflix and then everybody consumes it in three days it’s gone (don’t get me wrong I love stranger things I’m really hoping for season three and four on Blu-ray) but he’s right when I was a kid growing up TV shows had followings and people will talk about them for a year or two. I remember I couldn’t wait for cartoons to come on like the real Ghostbusters,Batman, ninja turtles was a yearly things and then TV shows as I got older like married with children people is always talking about it for years. It’s a different world today and it’s not as good. Also I think the Aldi‘s movie industry is constantly lie to try and push streaming services I know for a fact physical movie sounds really good in Best Buy‘s and they try to act like it doesn’t!!!
So writers are getting paid 9,000 and now offered 11,000 a week. Are paid too little yeah right.
I would not be part of a cult that bans me from speaking. And I wouldn't consider joining a cult that requires non-members to not speak as well.
Solidarity with WGA and SAG! They deserve everything they are asking for, and the studios are capitalistic pigs hell bent on hurting anyone and everyone in their quest for infinite profit.
How many booster shots did you get?
@@justonefyx How is my medical history relevant to what I said?
I don't know about the actors, but the studios offered the writers ridiculous money and they turned it down.
@adamstrachn The writers and actors are asking for more than money. Every ask from SAG and WGA is justified and worth fighting for. If the studios won't even acknowledge that, then their offers (which have not once come close to meeting the full demands of the working class people) ring hollow, and they are negotiating in bad faith.
@@TheDingusBoy Your answer tells me you're on your 4th booster
They played pandemic for three years and now they want a raise. Children!
I don’t feel sorry for any actor that whines about needing an increase in living wage while they’re getting paid millions of dollars for every movie they’re not going hungry so when I see Brian Cranston going on interviews complaining how they’re taking food out of his mouth when he’s got millions and millions and millions of dollars I don’t feel sad at all for overpaid ego driven actors that live on their little bubble but try and tell the common people how they should be living while they’re in their castles, the writers on the other hand I somewhat sympathize with them thousands of them are out of work because of AI generating everything but I think a lot of the woke content that has been killing movies and TV shows also contributed to it being used so many of the writers writing the new Star Wars and Star Trek’s and marvel movies and DC movies etc. it’s like the writers weren’t fans of the content to begin with because the writing is terrible that’s why everything Disney and DC and hollywood is putting out have been flops because they don’t seem to get it and keep writing terrible shows and movies pushing virtue signaling and inclusiveness instead of just writing some thing people want to watch. I disagree with him saying the pandemic is the cause it might have been a catalyst but once Hollywood started pushing ideologies and woke garbage people stopped going to theaters and people are starting to drop subscriptions to streaming services because they don’t want a bunch of political and ideology crap shoved down their throat they just want to come home from work to turn on the TV and relax watching some thing that entertains us and they stop doing that therefore they’re losing tons of money now because of it.
There are people in rhe industry that earn hardly anything and can't afford healthcare. People like you are the problem!
Talk about Ignorance. This movement isn’t for big actors or brian Cranston as you so delusional believe. If you don’t understand the subject then don’t regurgitate what you heard from someone else.
@@lxXSuddenDeathXxl I don’t think it’s ignorance at all if anything it’s Hollywood’s been ignorant to half of the population not wanting to watch their crap and they thought they knew better and could keep on pushing shit on people that don’t wanna watch it and now we’re whining because they’re hemorrhaging money. I only use Brian Cranston as one example I don’t care if it’s him or any other actor they’re all over paid just like athletes are in the thousands of writers that keep writing all this no talent crap that they’re putting out so you can call ignorance all you want because you’re probably one of them I think Hollywood getting what it deserved in fact I hope it goes bankrupt maybe they’ll learn to stay out of politics and pushing wokeness and do what they’re getting paid to do which is entertain the rest of us and they wouldn’t be striking to begin with.
And writers are not immune to their position anymore than any other job that someone trains by the thousands to do in a market gets saturated with it you know what happens ? they don’t get work🙄 they are no different Hollywood is saturated with them most of them no talent writing crap that are whining about not getting paid enough maybe they need to thin the herd and maybe they’ll actually start getting a wage worth paying them for again I don’t feel sorry for thousands of them out of work because they’re writing a bunch of crap that nobody wants to watch.
@@DaveofAllTrades75 I completely agree with your assessment in your initial post and reply, DoAT75. Ted made a comment about the exec’s operating in a bubble, but fails to acknowledge the same goes for all those creatives. They are all apart of the failure of the industry.
Time and technology has changed, and will continue to change, the “entertaiment” industry. Even when the parties come to some terms, I expect conditions will remain relatively unchanged. Certain people with continue to be overpaid, some will earn enough to get by, and many will continue to struggle.
Listening to Ted Sullivan, it sounds like striking members are just trying to maintain some level of livelihood as they continue to work in the system. The class system will always remain within their industry.
As Ted said, They, including himself, got too comfortable and they were the frog in the slowly boiling water. Well…good news for those of us who have been disappointed by the quality of the output, preached at and castigated by these “creators”. The majority are stuck in the pot with the lid on, and I’m fine with that outcome. The only real change their feelings and so-called ideals bring is destruction. Case and point- Hollywood and the state of California.
The rich executives, actors and the like will still make their money, and the rest will provide the backs for the elites to walk on.
Also, Yo! This video is too WHITE, ya’ll. Old white men with their white privilege. Where is my diversity and representation?!?
Agreed
You've got 10,000 union members competing for 2,000 writing jobs and you wonder why no one is making money? Hollywood doesn't need 20 WGA writers to proofread AI-generated superhero sequel scripts. And whoever thought getting a 24 year old vlogger to negotiate with the studios was a good idea was an idiot.
The crazy thing holly wood offered them $11,000 a week and they still wouldn't except it. Apparently their original wage is $10,000 a week. Theses writers are a bunch of babies.
Trying not to take sides but .... The WAG led their dues paying members into a strike having zero leverage. The evil studios save huge money by not paying wages and simply not creating any more money losing flopbusters. Add to this the vast amount of available content both domestic and foreign and a consumer public that feels betrayed by both writers and studios to the point of apathy. This is a no win for WAG. It's like being in a high stakes poker game and going all in with nothing in your hand. What reason (if any) would the studios have to concede? The only time a non union employee can ask for a raise is if they are prepared to leave for another job. Paying dues and thinking you're safe because you have a union looking out for you is just foolish. Blame the Unions or blame the Studios, but don't blame the consumer or beg for their support.
Nothing you said in this post, seems factually incorrect, coming from someone who just watches movies but is not in the movie business.
However, I don't think you can blame them for striking, just because they're not in a strong position. If you read the writing on the wall, their working conditions are only going to get worse, so you have to put your foot down sometime.
@@frommatorav1 Seriously...I'm not taking sides. I have been in unions and have quit. One was the AFLCIO when I worked for the US postal service. The point is. You and I and everyone that has been paying for content (mostly poor quality) has been supportive. In return, they have taken to social media to call us racists for not supporting their race/gender political agendas. They accused us of review bombing releases that were really bad. And when oil and gas workers were losing their jobs...they were told to ''learn to code''. Hollywood in total has shut us out of the conversations. This is between the unions and the studios. There is nothing the public can do. It's not our fight. I
How does the consumer public feel betrayed by writers? That's completely made up, I don't see that at all. Plus the rest of your post is dumb and wrong.
Why are two replies hidden?
What strike? Just watched MEG2 with 17 of our family members in our 85 inch tv......these guy wants socialism in place😂😂😂😂😂😂....America doesn't support woke Hollywood socialist 😂😂😂😂