In solidarity with the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike, Hollywood veteran Mark Ruffalo is calling on actors to make more independent films. joined them and screenwriters on the sidewalks of Hollywood and Manhattan, Mark Ruffalo also took to Twitter (via Ary News and Espinof) earlier this week and shared his thoughts in a series of tweets.
“What if we all turn to India now?– writes the star of Marvel.
“Are content creators building a production system for movies and series with studios and streaming networks? So there is real competition“, he claimed.
Taking more aim at the “big cats,” as he calls them, with their “empires,” the actor offered:Then we just do what we always do: we create great content and they can buy it, or we break free and share those sales. share the profits. If the project works well, everyone succeeds. They have built an empire of billionaires and they think we are worthless. While they’re laughing like fat cats at billionaire boy summer camps, we’re making a new world for working people.“
“A surefire way to strengthen our hand is to become very supportive and friendly to all indie projects now. Call on all SAG-AFTRA members to join those who receive SAG-AFTRA WAIVERS (WGA) immediately. The studios have no competition, it will change that“, he noted Mark Ruffalo In the next tweet.
Notably, SAG-AFTRA members are joining the Writers Guild of America (WGA) to strike for fair compensation, making it the first “double strike” in Hollywood since 1960. For the uninitiated, the WGA has been on strike since May 2nd. Fair compensation and residual income from streaming services are some of the key issues in the strike, as is the rise of artificial intelligence.
idea Mark Ruffalo There is profit sharing among all workers and independent film making during the strike. “It will also help our fellow filmmakers, the “crew” we love, to keep working. This is also part of solidarity. We have to take care of each other“, he concluded.
Susan Sarandon, among others, supported and recalled that Matt Damon had recently created an independent studio. Are they sowing the seeds of the future or is it just a utopia? The case will follow.
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