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Writers, seeking pay change for the streaming era, prepare to strike

When the most recent Hollywood strike took place — 16 years ago — the internet had not yet transformed the television and movie businesses.

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Writers, seeking pay change for the streaming era, prepare to strike

Absent an unlikely last-minute resolution with studios, more than 11,000 unionized screenwriters could head to picket lines in Los Angeles and New York as soon as Tuesday, an action that, depending on its duration, would bring Hollywood’s creative assembly lines to a gradual halt.

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Writers, Seeking Pay Change for the Streaming Era, Prepare to Strike

In the 16 years since the entertainment industry’s last strike, sweeping technological change has upended the television and movie business.

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Get Smart: Hathaway, Carell take Control of show s Kaotic adaptation, now on TVNZ

Get Smart: Hathaway, Carell take Control of show s Kaotic adaptation, now on TVNZ
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Failure To Launch is almost a bizarre meta parody of rom-coms

attempt at movie stardom. Parker’s Paula is a “professional interventionist” who helps parents get their unmotivated adult sons to move out of the house by pretending to date them, thereby boosting their confidence. It’s a business she’s dreamed up herself based on her briefly mentioned tragic backstory of having fallen in love with a guy she couldn’t get to move out of his parents’ house. Not one to let lost love get her down, Paula has channeled her personal disappointment into professional gaslighting a business model that raises as many logistical questions as it does ethical ones. What happens to the poor guys after she gets them to leave home and then (presumably) dumps them? Did this movie singlehandedly inspire the entire incel movement?

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