00:00 Lights, camera, strike, it is official.
00:03 SAG-AFTRA has just voted to join the writers on the picket lines,
00:06 effectively shutting down Hollywood and a multi-billion dollar industry.
00:11 Joining me now is Puck founding partner Matthew Bellany.
00:14 So, Matt, good to have you back.
00:16 Let's talk about what's going to happen next.
00:19 Well, right now, this is the call to action.
00:23 The Guild has said we are on strike, the picketing will probably start tomorrow,
00:28 and film and television, scripted film and television are going to shut down.
00:33 It is a catastrophic moment for the industry.
00:37 Everything is going to shut down.
00:39 There will be able to do Broadway still, there will be other things,
00:42 but what people don't realize is that this means actors are not allowed to promote
00:46 the work that they have already made.
00:48 So you're going to see red carpets that would have been filled with stars
00:52 at these film festivals in the fall.
00:54 No stars, no social media posts promoting the trailers or the other things coming out.
01:01 Comic-Con is likely going to be impacted where actors just won't go out there.
01:06 So even people who are not in the business are going to feel this strike pretty soon.
01:11 The Oppenheimer stars, according to ABC, walked out of the premiere,
01:17 the BBC, excuse me, walked out of the premiere in London when the strike was announced.
01:21 So it happens immediately no matter what you're doing.
01:23 And that is a giant movie that is supposed, hopefully, if you're the producers,
01:29 to break box office records.
01:32 Yeah, and that's the key thing here.
01:34 The Barbie premiere for the Barbie movie were all this week.
01:38 The Mission Impossible premieres have all happened.
01:41 Those final big movies of the summer, they very strategically scheduled
01:45 their premieres right before this date so that they could get in the promotion
01:50 before they all have to go home.
01:52 And that's for right now.
01:55 When we get into the fall movies, when there are some big movies coming in the fall,
01:59 they're not going to get the promotion.
02:01 And all these shows, the late night shows and all these other things,
02:04 are shut down due to the writers' strike already.
02:07 We haven't had a situation where writers and actors are on strike in 63 years.
02:14 Last time it happened in 1960, Ronald Reagan was the president of the Screen Actors Guild.
02:20 It is unprecedented territory here in terms of what this strike is going to look like
02:24 to the modern entertainment economy.
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