Monday, November 20, 2023

Worth a Look

Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...

How SAG-AFTRA’s Streaming Bonus Compares to Other Union Deals

The Hollywood Reporter: Actors will get a somewhat larger piece of the streaming pie under the tentative agreement they made with studios and streamers — and the deal has a wrinkle that sets it apart from other recent contracts between Hollywood guilds and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.

 

Edith Piaf to Be Resurrected Using AI to Star in Her Own Biopic

www.thewrap.com: Warner Music announced on Tuesday that it has partnered with the Piaf Estate on “innovative and groundbreaking AI technology” that will recreate Piaf’s voice and image. The first animated biopic of an artist using AI will chart Piaf’s life from the 1920s to the 1960s. Piaf died in 1963.

 

Fewer Guns on TV Is a Result of the Hollywood Strikes, Study Reports

variety.com: Gun use is dramatically down on TV this fall — but that may be mostly attributed to the recent Hollywood strikes, which led to the shutdown of virtually all film and TV productions this year, according to a new study.

 

Design Unveiled for Expanded Institute for Contemporary Art in Pittsburgh

News - Carnegie Mellon University: Carnegie Mellon University unveiled the design for the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art’s new 29,000-square-foot home, prominently located in the new Richard King Mellon Hall of Sciences at the crossroads of the university’s campus and the city's iconic arts and cultural institutions along Forbes Avenue in Pittsburgh. Designed by ZGF Architects, the new museum will nearly triple the Miller ICA’s current size, with galleries and public programming spaces that will foster cross-disciplinary inquiry and community engagement.

 

Film and TV production assistants are unionizing—and ready to fight

therealnews.com: We won’t grasp all the repercussions of 2023’s ‘Hot Labor Summer’ for years to come, but one place where the effects are already being noted is Hollywood. Building on the momentum of the newly-chartered IATSE Local 111, which represents thousands of commercial production workers across the country, production assistants in the Film and TV sector are coming together to fight back against exploitative working conditions in the industry.

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