Monday Morning Poll: Does a Hollywood Strike Concern You?

Published: September 10, 2007, 7:32 am

Tags: cinematical, dga, hollywood strike, hollywoodstrike, sag, wga

Filed under: RumorMonger, Celebrities and Controversy, Fandom, DIY/Filmmaking, PoliticsOr, do you look at it the same way you do a sports strike -- that these friggin' people make so much money as it is, why on earth should they be striking? Lets' backtrack first, because I want to explain this strike to those who keep hearing about it, but don't really know what the hell anyone is talking about. Who's striking? Why are they striking? When are they striking? And what does their striking have to do with me and my electric bill? Okay, here's how it's playing out: The WGA (Writer's Guild of America) contract with the studios is up in October, but they're going to delay negotiations for a bit so as to catch up with the DGA (Director's Guild of America) and SAG (Screen Actors Guild), whose contracts end in June of 2008. The current notion around Hollywood is that all three of these guilds could team up in June, go on strike and literally cripple the entire industry (look at it as the

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