Hollywood Strike: John Cusack Lashes Out at Studio Greed, Extends Support to SAG-AFTRA STRIKE

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John Cusack has criticised the greed and uncaring perspective of huge studios, in addition to their over reliance on AI to do away with many writers with the intention to lower prices.

Published: July 16, 2023 4:20 PM IST

By IANS

Hollywood Strike: John Cusack Lashes Out at Studio Greed, Extends Support to SAG-AFTRA STRIKE

Hollywood Strike: The ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA have frozen Hollywood which has led to the delay and even cancellation of varied initiatives and panels. Many actors and administrators have supported the strike which incorporates John Cussack, who has criticised the greed and uncaring perspective of huge studios, in addition to their over reliance on AI to do away with many writers with the intention to lower prices. As reported by Variety, the ‘Con Air’ actor wrote on social media: “Studios wanna have extras work one day, scan them – own their likeness forever – and eliminate them from the business.”

Cusack additional wrote about how the studios need to use AI to do away with sure performing jobs. “Do you think they will stop with extras? That’s what AI is – a giant Copyright identity theft.” The actor then proceeded to share a narrative about starring in Cameron Crowe’s traditional 1989 teen romance movie ‘Say Anything’, saying that he acquired no proportion of the field workplace and that the studio misplaced $44 million. “The greed is almost a legendary comic trope,” Cusack wrote. “One fun fact – when I was a youngin- I did a film (with a boom box) and somehow I got points – net not gross.”

He additional talked about: “Never expected to see any money – but the film became quite famous – so about 10 years ago – I looked again at the financial statements they were obligated to report – and to my shock – they claimed they had LOST 44 million dollars on the film.” He added: “I thought wow, I almost bankrupted Fox! (not really). The film cost about 13 million to make – and money spent to release was minimal at the time – 30 years in – that film lost millions every year ! A neat accounting trick don’t ya think?”

Cussack additionally referred to as the studios a ‘criminal enterprise’, claiming that they are going to eradicate background actors and writers inside a decade or so by means of the usage of AI after which not pay them their dues. He additionally shared a video of SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher who mentioned: “We are the victims here. We are being victimised by a very greedy entity. I cannot believe it, quite frankly: How far apart we are on so many things. How (the studios) plead poverty, that they’re losing money left and right when giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEOs. It is disgusting. Shame on them.”

Some of the halted initiatives and cancelled panels embody massive initiatives equivalent to delaying of ‘Andor’ Season 2 and ‘White Lotus’ Season 3, and the cancellation of the ‘Dune Part 2’ comedian con.

Except for the heading and excerpt, the content material is attributed to IANS.

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