Striking writers now have a new punching bag: Bob Iger.
After telling CNBC’s David Faber Thursday that the labor situation is “very disturbing” and how the Hollywood unions aren’t being realistic about the current financial climate, WGA picketers went postal on social media by pointing out the massive pay disparity between the Disney CEO and most working writers today.
In a lengthy sit-down with CNBC from Sun Valley, Idaho, Iger addressed the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes and his ongoing feud with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Though his digs at DeSantis were lauded — he called the governor’s claims that Disney is sexualizing children “preposterous and inaccurate”— he lost the Tinseltown rank and file when he said “this is the worst time in the world” to walk off the job.
“I understand any labor organization’s desire to work on behalf of its members to get the most compensation...
After telling CNBC’s David Faber Thursday that the labor situation is “very disturbing” and how the Hollywood unions aren’t being realistic about the current financial climate, WGA picketers went postal on social media by pointing out the massive pay disparity between the Disney CEO and most working writers today.
In a lengthy sit-down with CNBC from Sun Valley, Idaho, Iger addressed the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes and his ongoing feud with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Though his digs at DeSantis were lauded — he called the governor’s claims that Disney is sexualizing children “preposterous and inaccurate”— he lost the Tinseltown rank and file when he said “this is the worst time in the world” to walk off the job.
“I understand any labor organization’s desire to work on behalf of its members to get the most compensation...
- 7/13/2023
- by Lynette Rice and Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Mayans M.C. rode into season two strong last week with 1.4 million viewers in the adults 18-49 demographic and 2.8 million total viewers in Live+3. The premiere of FX’s Sons of Anarchy spinoff from Kurt Sutter and Elgin James was the snagged the #1 spot in primetime cable programming in all key adult and men demos.
Audiences were excited to see the return of the series as it revved its engines to net 4.3 million total viewers across all linear and non-linear platforms. To add even more good news, the premiere is now ranked #3 in both Adults 18-49 and Adults 18-34 among all 141 scripted season premieres on cable in 2019. This puts the season two premiere in good company; right behind the final season premiere of HBO’s Game of Thrones and AMC’s The Walking Dead Season 9B Premiere.
The premiere tops its season one debut last year which drew in2.5 million...
Audiences were excited to see the return of the series as it revved its engines to net 4.3 million total viewers across all linear and non-linear platforms. To add even more good news, the premiere is now ranked #3 in both Adults 18-49 and Adults 18-34 among all 141 scripted season premieres on cable in 2019. This puts the season two premiere in good company; right behind the final season premiere of HBO’s Game of Thrones and AMC’s The Walking Dead Season 9B Premiere.
The premiere tops its season one debut last year which drew in2.5 million...
- 9/11/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
“House of Cards” creator Beau Willimon was elected president of the Writers Guild of America, East (Wgae) on Tuesday as a result of its 2017 Council election. Vice President Jeremy Pikser and Secretary-Treasurer Bob Schneider both won reelection. Incumbents Bonnie Datt, Susan Kim and Courtney Simon, along with new members David Simon, Amy Sohn and Tracey Scott Wilson, were elected to the Freelance Council. Also Read: Writers Guild of America West Blasts Trump Charlottesville Comments: 'Disgraces Our Nation' Incumbent Andrea Ciannavei, runner-up to the six open Freelance Council seats, was elected to a one-year term on the Council to fill the...
- 9/20/2017
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Wrap
Leaders of the Writers Guild of America are rallying members to vote “yes” this week on the strike authorization vote so that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) doesn’t have “the upper hand” when contract negotiations resume next week, according to an email sent to WGA members obtained by TheWrap. In an email to some WGA members, WGA East council member Andrea Ciannavei claims that the AMPTP requested a break in negotiations until April 25 to “see how strong our union solidarity is. If we have a low percentage on a yes vote for the Sva, the AMPTP will.
- 4/19/2017
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
The House Of Cards showrunner is looking to expand his political influence from the White House to the union hall. Beau Willimon is among the candidates announced today for a two-year term on the WGA East Council. Fifteen other candidates also will vie for the seven open Freelance seats including incumbents John Auerbach, Jenny Lumet, Terry George, Richard Vetere, Patrick Mason and Walter Bernstein, the 94-year-old Fail-Safe and The Front scribe who was blacklisted during the 1950s. The other candidates are Kyle Bradstreet, Andrea Ciannavei, Timothy Cooper, Marin Gazzaniga, Chris Kyle, John Marshall, Jo Miller, Oren Moverman, Danielle Paige and […]...
- 7/1/2014
- Deadline
PIGEONHOLED
The sibling team of (writer-producer) Tripp and (writer-director) Michael Swanhaus joins the ever-expanding universe of filmmaking brothers with "Pigeonholed", a flighty black comedy with failed John Hughes-meets-John Waters aspirations.
Set in an institution for troubled rich kids, the film -- presented as part of the AFI Fest's New Directions section -- is seen through the eyes of 18-year-old Devon (Justin Pierce), an out-of-control suburban Connecticut kid whose fed-up father (an amusing Chris Noth) finally takes desperate measures.
With Devon duct-taped to the passenger seat, his father drops him off at the Sunny Meadows rehabilitation center, where he meets four other teens with "issues": overweight Gabby (Andrea Ciannavei), anorexic Kayleigh (Galaxy Craze), nymphomanical Eve (Allison Folland) and sexually confused Eric (Tom Lock).
As their respective families are presented via grainy home-movie footage -- in which Rosanna Arquette shows up as Devon's nutty mom -- it becomes apparent that the apple doesn't fall far from the dysfunctional tree.
But while the Swanhaus brothers, who share screenplay credit with Luke McMullen, work hard to goose their otherwise vapid, mumbly enterprise with a few outrageous bits, they're no Farrellys.
There's also no discernible visual style, other than what has been picked up from watching too many MTV videos.
Michael Rechtshaffen
BIRDCAGE INN
Melodrama is alive and well in "Birdcage Inn", Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-Duk's never-a-dull-moment portrait of a prostitute and the havoc she wreaks on the lives of a Po-Hang family.
Screened as an official selection of the AFI Fest, the film, sort of a flip on Pasolini's "Teorema", has the much-maligned, young Jin-Ah setting up shop at an inn of ill repute presided over by a no-nonsense matriarch and her quiet husband.
She has no trouble bringing in business when she's not butting heads with the couple's chaste young daughter, Hye-Mi, who's the same age as Jin-Ah but is always quick to remind her of their class differences. Their teenage son, meanwhile, is far more accommodating and plants a microphone in her "work" room in order to keep up with her activities.
Of course, Dad and junior both eventually have their way with her, and darn it even if her chief adversary doesn't come around by the end.
Although things get just a tad overwrought -- there hasn't been this much face-slapping on screen since Joan Crawford's heyday -- Ki-Duk certainly has a lively visual sense, peppering the potentially bleak landscape with bright, bold primary colors, while the funky translations provide some unintentional added amusement.
Michael Rechtshaffen...
The sibling team of (writer-producer) Tripp and (writer-director) Michael Swanhaus joins the ever-expanding universe of filmmaking brothers with "Pigeonholed", a flighty black comedy with failed John Hughes-meets-John Waters aspirations.
Set in an institution for troubled rich kids, the film -- presented as part of the AFI Fest's New Directions section -- is seen through the eyes of 18-year-old Devon (Justin Pierce), an out-of-control suburban Connecticut kid whose fed-up father (an amusing Chris Noth) finally takes desperate measures.
With Devon duct-taped to the passenger seat, his father drops him off at the Sunny Meadows rehabilitation center, where he meets four other teens with "issues": overweight Gabby (Andrea Ciannavei), anorexic Kayleigh (Galaxy Craze), nymphomanical Eve (Allison Folland) and sexually confused Eric (Tom Lock).
As their respective families are presented via grainy home-movie footage -- in which Rosanna Arquette shows up as Devon's nutty mom -- it becomes apparent that the apple doesn't fall far from the dysfunctional tree.
But while the Swanhaus brothers, who share screenplay credit with Luke McMullen, work hard to goose their otherwise vapid, mumbly enterprise with a few outrageous bits, they're no Farrellys.
There's also no discernible visual style, other than what has been picked up from watching too many MTV videos.
Michael Rechtshaffen
BIRDCAGE INN
Melodrama is alive and well in "Birdcage Inn", Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-Duk's never-a-dull-moment portrait of a prostitute and the havoc she wreaks on the lives of a Po-Hang family.
Screened as an official selection of the AFI Fest, the film, sort of a flip on Pasolini's "Teorema", has the much-maligned, young Jin-Ah setting up shop at an inn of ill repute presided over by a no-nonsense matriarch and her quiet husband.
She has no trouble bringing in business when she's not butting heads with the couple's chaste young daughter, Hye-Mi, who's the same age as Jin-Ah but is always quick to remind her of their class differences. Their teenage son, meanwhile, is far more accommodating and plants a microphone in her "work" room in order to keep up with her activities.
Of course, Dad and junior both eventually have their way with her, and darn it even if her chief adversary doesn't come around by the end.
Although things get just a tad overwrought -- there hasn't been this much face-slapping on screen since Joan Crawford's heyday -- Ki-Duk certainly has a lively visual sense, peppering the potentially bleak landscape with bright, bold primary colors, while the funky translations provide some unintentional added amusement.
Michael Rechtshaffen...
- 11/1/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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