But we know these movies are highly-anticipated so let your conscious be your guide.īut why can’t I watch these movies, they were made before the strike. You might even want to dig your heels in further and skip Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny for now. That’s right! Movies like Barbie and Oppenheimer should be crossed off of your list on principle, until the negotiations are finalized. If you support the actors then you can’t watch any upcoming movies. You think they will? What Can You Do to Support The Actors? Hopefully, they put a disclaimer that the session was recorded before the strike. But if studios already have promotional appearances in the can they can still use those. What it also means is that actor won’t show up to promotional screenings, interviews, or other appearances until the matter is resolved. The companies have refused to meaningfully engage on some topics and on others completely stonewalled us.” Actor and SAG-AFTRA leader Fran Drescher said the actors have negotiated in good faith, “but the AMPTP’s (Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers) responses to the union’s most important proposals have been insulting and disrespectful of our massive contributions to this industry. Put that together with the actor’s strike which may last for months, then you can see the domino effect. LOS ANGELES, CAĪnd if you think about it, the writer’s strike has already made a dent in not creating any new content. No More Moviesīut what does the strike mean for us? It means that any production currently being shot will have to shut down because the actors will not show up for work in solidarity with the union. There are other aspects of the dispute, but the AI controversy is definitely worth noting.
And consider this, what if studios replace background actors with AI? That’s a whole sector of the entertainment business out of a job. Scan an actor’s likeness for a fee, then use that likeness however they want and not pay the actor a cent afterward. The next year, he played Air Force captain and Mercury 7 astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom in the acclaimed film adaptation of Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff.What is scary is that big studios, in order to save a few dollars want to do exactly that. His first major role came in the 1979 Clint Eastwood film "Escape from Alcatraz " soon after, he played an accidental time traveler in the 1982 film "Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann." Actor Fred Ward and his wife Marie France arrive at the premiere screening of "10.5" on Apat Laemmles Monica Theater in Santa Monica, California. Once his acting career began, he became known for the versatility of his roles, the biography said, whether as a cop or an author of erotic stories in "Henry & June" - the world's first NC-17 movie. Air Force, and also worked as a short-order cook, a boxer and a lumberjack in Alaska. Ward's cause of death was not released.īefore Ward's film career began in the early 1970s, he held several other titles, according to a biography from his publicist: He served three years in the U.S.
Acclaimed actor Fred Ward, best known for his roles in films like "The Right Stuff," "Tremors" and "Escape From Alcatraz," died Sunday at age 79, his publicist confirmed to CBS News.
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