After months of negotiating successor contracts to the Producer-IATSE Basic Agreement, and the Theatrical and Television Motion Picture Are
If you have been hearing about the IATSE negotiations and want to show some support, here is a great and easy way to do it! IATSE will be heading back into their final round of negotiations soon, and in addition to a strike authorization from their members, a clear show of support from the public will also help their standing in making their demands.
This negotiation is about a livable wage for all crew members, enforcing safe and healthy working hours on set, and eliminating the special provisions that were put in place for streaming services when they were still developing (something that is no longer necessary as streaming has in many ways eclipsed traditional broadcast tv).
The working hours thing is extremely important -- we're not talking 9-5 here. We are talking ending the practice of planned 12-hour days that end up being 15 that end up being 18. I've done 18 hour days on set before (at hour 15 they have to order you "second dinner" which they didn't budget for, so it's always just pizza! Great!), and then had to drive home, and it's scary! I've also been on set Friday overnight until noon on Saturday (this is commonly called a "Fraturday" -- so cool that it happens so often that there is just a commonly accepted slang term for it that everyone who has ever worked on a set before knows), then had to go home and try to get my sleep schedule under control so I could be back to work at 6am on Monday. We're not doctors. We're not saving lives. There's no reason that hours like this have to be the norm except that our union contracts don't say they can't. It's greedy, it's poor planning, it's unsafe, it makes it difficult for crew members to have meaningful lives outside of work, and IATSE is fighting to make sure that can't happen anymore.
Signing this petition is both a great way to show that you support these things for the people who make the movies and TV you love -- from the costumers to the hair and makeup artists to the set designers to the editors to the cinematographers to the office assistants and all of the hundreds of other people whose creativity, passion, and skill influences the stories you love in infinite ways -- and well as hopefully even averting the need for a strike at all, if the AMPTP realizes that they are fighting a losing battle.
Please sign and reblog this petition to help send a message that film crews deserve to be paid fairly for their work and have their time respected.
(ETA: just in case this post gets reblogged beyond my circle, I just want to specify that I am not currently a member of IATSE, though I have been in the past. I have worked as both union and non-union crew on productions for over a decade as a script coordinator, script supervisor, and office PA. I am currently a member of the WGA, which is not involved in this negotiation, but I stand in solidarity with my film family who works so hard to bring my and my colleagues' words to life and deserves every bit of respect that the "famous" positions do)
Via Lukas Hasselās Instagram, posted today. āWith the man himself, James Spader. An incredible actor and exec producer. Involved in every decision and always courteous on set. Really honored to have been working alongside this gentleman.ā
If anyone wondered why Megan Boone seemed to be pissed off (and taking it out on her instagram account š) after the news of her leaving The Blacklist was leaked to deadline.comā¦ Artists and celebrities like to be in control of their publicity. Sheļæ¼ād probably planned her own announcement with her PR company, announcing her leaving and the start of her production company carefully. When the news was leaked she was no longer in control of it and the exact message she wanted to convey. Thatās my interpretation of the situation. I have done PR for artists and theyād be so obsessive about embargoes, weād always be the ones to announce last. I get her frustration.
I was a Lizzington/imposter/other dude supporter for the longest time. And never a daddygater, the most boring outcome if you ask me. But JBās story, even if NBC apparently decided differently, is that Katarina became Reddington. I joked about it shortly after S1, specifically when they started dropping little hints. There are so many. Like Luli āhating menā yet kissing and (implied) sleeping with Red. Or the - vaguely - feminine comments Red makes about Liz being a Winter, not an Autumn. The way he knew Liz was pregnant before she told anyone. Etc. Etc. Red being Katerina was just always a possibility, right from the start. So Iām not surprised and not angry, even if it isnāt the story I imagined or wanted it to be. Just slightly disappointed NBC apparently balked at more explicit dialogue, but even that I can understand. The world has changed since the start of the show and the subject matter has unfortunately become a minefield. Reading through the Reddit Blacklist sub will make that clear. People are questioning the necessary surgeries, obsessed with whether or not Red is āfully functionalā. Angry that the writers never mentioned before whether Red or Katarina were gay/bi/pan, whatever. (I guess you just assumed the characters were straight? That says more about you than the writers. š And by the way, Spader always reads biā¦ thatās his whole m.o. Not entirely kidding.) People are saying petite Lotte could never become big Spaderā¦ completely ignorant about the effects taking T can have on the body. Especially 30 years on. To me not every little detail in an 8 year show needs to be explained. Itās a TV show, not a fucking manual. Iām looking forward to more Red in Season 9.
06/16/2021 (10:00PM - 11:00PM) (Wednesday) Ā Ā : When Reddington takes Liz to the mysterious epicenter of his empire, their shared past reveals itself and long buried secrets are divulged.
James Spaderās 60th Birthday Week
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āIāve had a lazy career, sometimes one film a year, sometimes none. Iām walking around in the street and doing this other thing, living, that Iām much more interested in. I just do some acting on the side.ā
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