Box office talk!

[VinylGuy]

thats a good question.

A lot of this huge movies have their stars producing them in some capacity, so they should be there anyway.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[VinylGuy]

I would guess so yeah

but it seems they all want to join this strike, so seems if they go on strike every red carpet will be shut down.

Oppenheimer red carpet is already being pushed and hour earlier because of a possible strike announcement today.

[BurtReynolds]

The Flash wasn't even in the top 10 after week 3. crazy.

[Simple Torture]

Does the looming SAG-AFTRA strike mean no red carpet appearances for upcoming movies? Barbie and MI are probably just fine, but I'd be worried about anything coming out later than that.

I have no idea what the directions to the union will be, but for the sake of comparison, the WGA has asked members to not participate in press for their projects that’s set up or run by studios—so no press junkets, probably fewer talk show appearances (although writers do stuff like that less often), etc.—but that they were free to promote their projects otherwise. If SAG does something similar, I would have to imagine red carpets would be done for the time being, as surely those are studio-run. I think this aspect of the strike would be more acutely felt than with similar actions by writers.

[VinylGuy]

The Flash wasn't even in the top 10 after week 3. crazy.

yeah, huge bomb. Doesnt look good for that awful Blue Beetle movie and for Aquaman 2.

Seems DC will have to wait until the new Supes movie.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[bada]

My soaps are exempt from the strikes so I'm good.

[epilogue]

Does the looming SAG-AFTRA strike mean no red carpet appearances for upcoming movies? Barbie and MI are probably just fine, but I'd be worried about anything coming out later than that.

SAG-AFTRA has also released a list of striking jobs and non-striking jobs to members. For example: on-camera commercials, Industrials, and VO work is not affected by the strike. There are a lot of these kinds of caveats. Not sure how that impacts publicity and red carpet but it COULD be exempt (though I really doubt it).

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Simple Torture]

Does the looming SAG-AFTRA strike mean no red carpet appearances for upcoming movies? Barbie and MI are probably just fine, but I'd be worried about anything coming out later than that.

SAG-AFTRA has also released a list of striking jobs and non-striking jobs to members. For example: on-camera commercials, Industrials, and VO work is not affected by the strike. There are a lot of these kinds of caveats. Not sure how that impacts publicity and red carpet but it COULD be exempt (though I really doubt it).

FWIW: some of the stars of Oppenheimer left the film’s premiere as soon as the strike was ordered:

[epilogue]

Prediction: 3-4 months of unspent studio cash gets rerouted to AI venture capital, thus accelerating the demise of the system the strikers are trying to protect

There's a pretty strong theory/argument going on (at least for the WGA part of this) that studios WANT the strike since most need to cut costs anyway. A lot of the people I know predicted this was always going to last until September for quarterly bottom-lines. Not really sure how SAG impacts this. We'll see...

[epilogue]

Does the looming SAG-AFTRA strike mean no red carpet appearances for upcoming movies? Barbie and MI are probably just fine, but I'd be worried about anything coming out later than that.

SAG-AFTRA has also released a list of striking jobs and non-striking jobs to members. For example: on-camera commercials, Industrials, and VO work is not affected by the strike. There are a lot of these kinds of caveats. Not sure how that impacts publicity and red carpet but it COULD be exempt (though I really doubt it).

FWIW: some of the stars of Oppenheimer left the film’s premiere as soon as the strike was ordered:

You love to see it.

[epilogue]

Prediction 2: All eyes on TMNT debut as capital is poised to flow into more animated features.

Scurry is optioned, but softened for a liberal marketplace. Tom Hanks voices the head mouse, now written as trans. Burt evaporates.

No joke: this might be your greatest post ever.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[BurtReynolds]

I am pro-hanks.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Simple Torture]

Prediction: 3-4 months of unspent studio cash gets rerouted to AI venture capital, thus accelerating the demise of the system the strikers are trying to protect

There's a pretty strong theory/argument going on (at least for the WGA part of this) that studios WANT the strike since most need to cut costs anyway. A lot of the people I know predicted this was always going to last until September for quarterly bottom-lines. Not really sure how SAG impacts this. We'll see...

I heard something about a September timeline for studios being able to cancel overall deals without penalty, which would also save a lot of money, theoretically.

[JuanHamm]

I am pro-hanks.

Anything to sell merch amirite

Burt would never survive the scrutiny of success. Scurry 2 would end up starring Gina Carano and Jim Caviezel.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.