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“The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,” a studio executive told Deadline. Acknowledging the cold-as-ice approach, several other sources reiterated the statement. One insider called it “a cruel but necessary evil.”

The studios and streamers’ next think financially strapped writers would go to WGA leadership and demand they restart talks before what could be a very cold Christmas. In that context, the studios and streamers feel they would be in a position to dictate most of the terms of any possible deal.

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[-] kobra@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

I hope the writers and actors can give them a fully featured 'find out' experience for all this fucking around they're doing.

[-] Bakkoda@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think the biggest problem is most studios (whatever that means nowadays) have the pockets to wait it out for a while and have no problems generating absolute dog shit content and pawning it off on the customers.

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