Hollywood Writers Guild strike paralyzes film production

The Writers Guild in Hollywood announced a strike and a severance of its members, demanding a wage increase, after negotiations between it and the studios broke down. The Writers Guild announced that no agreement had been reached, so it was necessary to declare a strike. The studios announced that they had a large balance of films that would not affect them by the strike, but this statement seemed unserious, especially at the Tony Awards ceremony, where the producers stopped writing scripts for the announcers, so they improvised speeches and appeared confused, and the ceremony was broadcast live.

Other unions have declared their solidarity with the Writers Guild, and the Television Actors Guild has decided to postpone the Emmy Awards to avoid a failure of the ceremony. Production studios have announced that they will show new films that were previously filmed, and that they will also show old films. Disney Studios has announced that it has rearranged the showing of some of its films, and that it has cancelled some of them. However, it is clear that this strike has an impact on work in Hollywood, as it causes paralysis in some sectors of the cinema and television industry, such as disrupting work in supplying the studios with some supplies, as the cessation of work in one sector directly affects other sectors, which affects the entire sector of film and television production.

George Doss