A union that does not even exist yet isn't persecuting the far more talented to be fed upon by the untalented proletariat hack masses at studio B. That should be pretty easy to agree upon? For Instance... Even after reforming The NFLPA and coming to a collective bargaining agreement, I do not believe that the earnings of…
This is 100% the fault of artists. We need to seriously start promoting ourselves and realize that hiding in the shadows is costing us huge amounts of money. Self promotion can be tacky if done the wrong way, but we create the artwork that consumers crave. A big part of a movie stars job is to PROMOTE the movie they are…
That would've been nice with my job at Cryptic. I seriously thought I was going to talk with the art director because it was my turn to give feedback on our project leads, and was told "sorry, we're going to have to let you go for 'x' reasons" (which I was later told by other folks were bs reasons). I was quickly made to…
The Screen Actors Guild also did pretty major things. Actors and Directors names HAVE to be on the movie posters, they HAVE to be credited (unlike many games), and they basically pushed the star power of the actors as a 'brand'. In the 40's/50's when you went to see a 'Paramount Movie', or a '20th Century Fox Movie' there…