Imagine working at Warner Bros. and destroying a money printing machine (DC Movies), bankrupting the Company. But you still get payed an executive salary for just showing up. Failing upward while your employees beg for scraps. Truly a case for why CEO's aren't needed.
@@jool5941hat is incredibly false. The lowest day rate for a SAG-AFTRA member is $216. Perhaps if you kept scrolling past the information that you thought would confirm your bias you would’ve seen this. But, hey, let’s stick with YOUR numbers. Let’s say you’re an aspiring actor. One day, your agent phones you up and says, “hey, Jool5941, I booked you an appearance in the new Marvel project. You’re going to get two lines of dialogue, so they’re only going to need you for a day, two days max. Fly out to Atlanta where they’re filming. You’ll need to find an Airbnb to stay in.” So, you fly out, do your day or two of filming, and you get your $2,400 check and you fly back to…wherever you live. “Sweet! $2,400 for two days and two lines of dialogue,” you think to yourself. “I’m living the dream!” Then you remember that your agent gets 10%. That’s $240 off the top. Oh, there’s also taxes, social security, etc.. That’s another, let’s say, $100 gone. “Ok, I still have $2,060 left. Not so bad.” Except your credit card statement is due, and you have to fork over $500 for the flight and $300 for the Airbnb you stayed in while filming. “It’s ok,” you say to yourself, “I can just write those off as expenses come tax season in…8 months. I’ll be fine with my…$1.260…until then. Plus, I’ll get more work.” Except, you don’t, because the directors and the producers didn’t like your performance and you’ve been cut out of the film. That means other casting directors won’t know who you are and you won’t be getting more work for who knows how long. Since you were cut from the movie, you won’t be expecting any residuals either, so you can’t bank on any of that in order to pay your car insurance or health insurance. Also, your rent is due, and it’s $1,260 a month. So, what were you saying about making 190k a year?
When the MI franchise started, the Pierce Brosnan Bond era had only just begun with Goldeneye coming out the year before. Tom Cruise has outlasted both Brosnan's and Craig's tenure as Bond, that's crazy lol
He’s also one of the only action heroes in a series now that’s been played by one person. Mad Max, Bond, Indiana Jones, Han Solo, etc. have all been played by multiple people. John McClane is the only one I can think of that’s only been played by Bruce Willis. We’ll see though how long it takes them to reboot that… And since Cruise produces ALL of the MI films, I have a feeling he will always be the only person to play Ethan Hunt 🤙
I appreciate coverage of the strike and rationale. Anyone who enjoys entertainment should want the people who make it possible to be compensated for their time and energy.
First time I've been able to listen to a full episode in a while. This summer movie schedule has been relentless, but I was able to see Dead Reckoning a week early! It also occurs to me that Nick Mason may objectively be the most famous Tram Driver on the planet.
@@5Ci0N you absolute ham sandwich its the writers. Are you actually a single celled organism dude its a writers strike, the writers guild. Actors are apart of it but i think theres a few writers on the guild i could be wrong.
@johnorren6904 do you know what the lowest pay scale is for SAG members? The lowest SAG day rate is $1,082, and $3,756 for the week. Do you make almost 4k per week?
Mate. We addressed the pay rates in the video. Most SAG members don't make anywhere near that due to various loopholes, contract exclusivity clauses and hours worked
@@lrrroftheplanetomicronpersei8 they also say during the initial "your mission if you choose to accept it" briefing that his tendency to go rogue will not be tolerated
I just skimmed through this comment and thought you said Tom Cruise vs Tom Cruise, which if they are going the MGS route, an Ethan Clone is just around the corner.
lmao love the strike section. nice to see some pro-strike people out there. i've had some leftist friends of mine scoff at supporting hollywood strikes, but just as y'all said, this is important because it help inspire other strikes. helps educate people about unions and how powerful labour movemnts can be.
Yes! And some of the issues the writers and actors are striking over are (probably) going to spread to other industries in the near future, so it's very important for workers to draw a line in the sand now over how technologies alter the relationship between their productivity and their compensation.
People on the left aren't against the holly wood strike bud. Most of the sag actors striking, probably all, are left leaning liberals after all. It's the right that usually don't support strikes😂
Dont forget that the $420 million isnt even from 1 studio! It's industry wide! They wont have to make 1 less movie, all together they probably just have to make 1/10 less of a movie each!
I really enjoyed Dead Reckoning, but I want to give a shoutout to Person of Interest for getting in the door of AI subterfuge early on, and doing it brilliantly.
Ah! Thank you, I kept trying to remember what the plot reminded me of and the best I could come up with was that it felt very Black Mirror like "oooo technology bad/society is a phone".
21:44 some real working class solidarity on this podcast and I fucking love it! Best podcast, funniest podcast, wokest podcast - that’s right, I’m reclaiming the word, woke is good again!
Great episode. Really liked the talk about unions, especially in this case, but also the broader context. Also, the discussion about NFTs - solid rants. Oh, and I always enjoy dog time(s) in this podcast, just brings a nice energy and lightens the mood, so I was really happy to see the special guest star in this episode and last week's Caravan of Garbage. I actually caught Mission Impossible this weekend (the 2nd movie I've caught in theatres in years, after GotG3, and the 1st I've seen so early in its run) and quite enjoyed it. I was surprised about how comedic it was at times (like the admittedly overly long car chase bit) but liked the mix of action and spy thriller stuff (the fight scenes were especially nice, quite different from what the series has delivered before). Still a bit surprised how it stops, but very interested in seeing where it goes in the next film.
I am glad i am not the only one who felt that way about the women of mission impossible series. I agree its pretty weird that they keep adding a new one every series, like rebecca ferguson is a good co-lead for the series but they felt the need to add vanessa kirby in the last one and now hayley atwel to take the side with tom cruise. It's pretty weird.
I don’t think it’s that we love Tom cuz he’s trying to kill himself for us but people can recognise that he does care about cinema and making movies more than a lot of celebrities nowadays
Much like Mason I was also confused because I thought this was supposed to be a dark and weird story. I wonder if Cruella killed that Joker craze Hollywood was feeling for a moment.
As an additional note, $70k is the average - and writers salaries are heavily right-skewed. The median writers salary (a better measurement for this situation) is below $70k. Thanks for mentioning the cost-of-living in California/NYC as well. That plus the need for self insurance is a pretty huge factor
As a SAG actor, a couple of the things on top of residuals - and in fact, is much more important to a larger number of people in the union - is not having a person scanned for only a pittance (possibly at bg level and not a full day, but just half a day or ~$100) and then used digitally in perpetuity in however the owners of that image want {thanks for mentioning that!} AND to have an 11% increase to minimums (which is what most of us get 95% of the time) to reach a level that would meet inflation (and they have a backlog of this because the new contracts in the recent past were NOT keeping up at all). I'm on the lower end of getting roles, main leads in lots of paid indies up to mid level contracts, but I also do stand-in, doubling, stunts, and even as much bg as I can get between the others, just to barely pay the bills without any security as it's just gig after gig, a day here, a few days there, then long weeks of nothing -- and always getting the minimums and paying CA bills because there's nowhere else to do this job like this. I hope these greedy fucks rot, and I hope the stink sets in soon, because I'm fucked if not. After Covid and then the way the industry and labor has been the last few years, it's been nothing but get a little ahead then get dripped dry and less and less, until right before this, I'm barely hanging on, borrowing money to make the bills and rent (and first thing landlord did as soon as no eviction law dropped was raise the rent, even after we didn't miss any payments during everything the last couple). And I've worked my ass off to get jobs and with the low paying ones I've gotten. Hell, I was a power ranger not a few months ago for a short and choreographed the stunts and still. This is fucking bullshit - and I'm afraid it'll end with just the upper top getting something and the lower 95% getting thrown under the bus. This may be the last time I can still officially call myself an actor or a writer or anything in this business. And that's all I've worked at for the last twenty years with ups and downs and probably amounting to nothing -- and th eworst part, nobody cares one fuck -- and one day soon, maybe I won't either.
The whole argument used to be “we can’t raise wages, everything will get more expensive!” Well guess what EVERYTHING GOT MORE EXPENSIVE ANYWAY AND NOW PEOPLE CANT AFFORD TO LIVE
Wonka Year 1 certainly looks like they took a bunch of bits from the Fantastic Beasts scripts that they're not going to make anymore and just replaced "Wizards" with "Chocolatiers." I mean it looks very watchable but I don't know this anything I'm going to remember 3 days after seeing it.
good point. and there's also a very long chunk of time in which we don't see Benji. I thought for sure the entity would take over the car at some point, I feel like something happened in that timeframe
That Rebecca Ferguson anecdote about her not being able to blink is fascinating because 1. How can people not no how to do that?!? 😮 2. Elite snipers actually keep BOTH EYES OPEN! 😂
I spent the entire runtime of Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1 looking for the scene where the guy who almost shits himself in Mission Impossible (1996) makes an appearance only to finish the film without seeing him and realise I was not remembering an article I had seen but rather a joke that existed in this podcast. You fucking got me.
How many times are you going to bring up “Tom Cruise redemption” & “his movies make you forget about his weird stuff” before you realise you are all being played?
While listening to this video my girlfriend asked me, "is that your commie aussies (referring to Boy Boy) or your movie aussies?" And I said "both apparently." I'm absolutely loving it. Thank you for using your platform to discuss such important issues, and doing it so passionately!
I'm sure it's been pointed out elsewhere, but the 'autonomous AI runs its own intelligence agency through human intermediaries' plotline is basically a rehash of the Len Deighton novel (and Michael Caine movie) "Billion Dollar Brain" from the late 60s.
Yass love the commentary you guys. Seriously, the time for dramatic life improving change is now, revolution or not the planet needs these changes on a human level and beyond.
Nice to see Stam Fine get a shout out. Between you guys, Stam Fine and Secret Galaxy, I often find myself watching multiple videos on the same topic back to back even when they are released years apart. Not a big channel but I also highly recommend "Ray Reviews...". It's an old british guy/puppet. Honestly, the production quality is stupidly good for such a small channel. Definitely think Maso would love it.
I've always wondered, is Maso actually a tram driver? I can't tell if it's one of those long-running jokes that just started before I begun watching. Like Bob Iger being his dad or that whole Big Sandwich malarchy?
I'm with you on 90s shows to cover (Wormhole of Garbage?) knowing they aren't garbage, and it's just a name. In addition to Sliders, you can do The Pretender, Space Above and Beyond, Brisco County Jr., Farscape, Due South, Lexx, Highlander, Voyager, Forever Knight, Earth Final Conflict, Seaquest, and so many more.
I know it’s unlikely but given the writer strike is still going on I wonder if things like videogame studios will start hiring Hollywood writers for projects, it seems like a great opportunity for both parties.
I'm guessing you don't look at writing credits much? That's been the case for decades already. There aren't really "Hollywood writers" or "video game writers" there are just writers, and they work for whoever will pay them right.
@@HOTD108_ I normally do, it’s just for the most part Hollywood writers don’t work on video games, sure there’s probably been a couple here or there but mostly videogames are written by people who solely do videogames or the occasional author.
Love that you gave Amelia Dimoldenberg a shout-out. Great left wing pro-Corbyn politics; lovely person. Also thanks for covering the strikes so well. Love the little bits of politics you throw in with the fun and film chat.
Sliders and shows from that era? What about all those shows that followed the X files? Strange Luck, Nowhere Man, Millennium, That one with the lady who used VR to go into people's brains or something, Lone Gunmen, American Gothic with Gary Cole, the one where there's a VR military simulator that people get trapped in, had "game" in the title, I think. That's just off the top of the dome, mates!
The GOT actors are signed to a British union agreement. They are specifically prohibited from engaging in "sympathy strikes" relating to a union they are not party to. Do you think SAG actors go on strike when British unions go on strike? No. And I doubt you would expect them to.
In Los Angeles specifically, the median wage for a screenwriter is something like $77-87.000 (depending on the source), which happens to be pretty much the same number that is generally considered a liveable wage there.
Median is the midpoint which means the salary range is incredible wide putting thousands of people well below minimum wage. Plus 77 to 80k isn’t a lot if you don’t have health insurance, paying rent, student debt etc. plus if you have a family or anybody else relying on your you’re fucked, that is no where near livable It’s also about compensation for the value you bring. If your work makes a studio tens of millions of dollars you should be entitled to some of that
@@WeeklyPlanetPodcast I wasn't trying to refute your point. Quite the opposite. If the median wage is about the same as the liveable wage, then half of the writes are below that limit. Which is bad.
One point about the wolverine suit is that yes itd probably look better without sleeves but its probably to protect Hugh since he has a history of skin cancer so as far as Im concerned it's much better
Oh my god, I never realized it, but Mission Impossible really is the anti-Fast and Furious and I feel guilty that I haven't seen any, but have seen a lot of bad FF movies instead. I should really change that. Also i love that "Bob Iger is Maso's dad" being a bad bit is a bit in of itself.
For those interested in Metamorpho, the current arc of World’s Finest series written by Mark Waid focuses on the character. The older Outsiders stuff is great too
I thought the new upcoming one was a prequel to the original. It had that classic vibe that the Johnny Depp one one lacks. That one along with the wonderland films are schlock at best. A movie geared toward general audiences should not feel like a subway commercial.
I don't often think about walking out of a movie but there were a few times during Dead Reckoning when I was seriously considering it. What a ludicrous movie
I cannot stress enough, we are all connected and if these guys win their strike, we all win. CEOs and board members are the ones who steal wages, not someone making 20-50k more then you. Someone making 200000k more than you did.
The thing about 'Blakes 7' is that many of its fans would dearly love to see it remade with modern sensibilities, but if you were to write it all down, you'd soon realise that you're just remaking 'Firefly'.
Gotta add '7 Days' and 'seaQuest' into the 90's TV/Sliders round up! +1 Vote for the Sliders episode where the Patriarchy is reversed and Jonathan Rhys Davies campaigns to become the first male US President.
Didn't really like Fallout (pretty much the only one of these I've watched) so I was going to skip this one. However a friend of mine was keen on seeing it so I joined him. Just came home from the cinema and i fucking loved it. Idk why it resonated so much with me. Time to re-listen what you had to say about it. BEST MOVIE EVER I HOPE
I'll be honest I was not impressed with this MI movie It was not better than any of the 4 prior movies Still not sure why some people are calling it the movie of the year
yep, agree with the one review about it being really slow and almost tedious. it was kind of insulting after a while the way people kept saying lines over and over again sometimes in the same scene and in the same minute as another character. the action was good but felt drawn out to fill time and increase intensity but it just diminished it. same with the bike stunt; saw it too many times. at first i thought it was crazy that hayley's character was such a weak damsel for being this highly skilled thief, but i realized people don't become stealth criminals because they want to get in fights, car chases and jump trains...so idk. i didn't really get why we were supposed to care about her outside of her being a person just in the world that would be destroyed if Ethan failed the mission....but Mission Impossible: Black Mirror was best movie ever
Well i was out in town ad it started raining so i went to see dead reckoning since i had free movies and was a good way to stay out of the thunderstorm. It got a good fee laughs out of me
