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Hollywood Studios’ WGA Strike Endgame Is To Let Writers Go Broke Before Resuming Talks In Fall

https://deadline.com/2023/07/writers-strike-hollywood-studios-deal-fight-wga-actors-1235434335/

EXCLUSIVE, updated with AMPTP statement: Regardless of whether SAG-AFTRA goes on strike this week, the studios have no intention of sitting down with the Writers Guild for several more months. “I t…

Hollywood Studios’ WGA Strike Endgame Is To Let Writers Go Broke Before Resuming Talks In Fall

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I saw a thread about this article on Twitter recently, and I thought it was an interesting take that Hollywood can't actually afford to wait out the strike since they are all on a quarterly deadline (profit wise). If they run out of content, their earnings will dip and it would only take a few months to look really bad for the CEOs.

Here's the thread in question if you want to read it yourself