No Barbie and Ken costumes for the stars on Halloween!

No Wednesday Addams either, or Marvel superheroes. During these times of strike, certain rules must be respected…

While Actors’ strike continues in Hollywood, SAG-AFTRA representatives ask its members to take care with their costume choices this Halloween. In order not to provide backdoor publicity to the studios, they consider that the actors should not disguise themselves as key characters from the successes of recent months. In short, no Barbie or Ken costume, nor Wednesday Addams!

The request may be surprising, but it can be explained by the fact that among the rules imposed during the strike, it is forbidden for actors starring in major productions to promote them until negotiations have concluded. successful. That’s why the teams of barbie and D‘Oppenheimer stopped their tour promotional campaign just before the release of these two blockbusters in mid-July, the strike having been officially announced on the 14th. The stars Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon and Florence Pugh had to leave the red carpet just before the screening of this historic film!

Since then, they have publicly defended the movement, Margot Robbie for example participating in demonstrations organized in front of the most important film and streaming studios in Hollywood, such as Disney, Universal, Warner Bros or Netflix.

“Let’s use our collective power to send a strong and clear message to our employers stuck by the strike,it is thus in their press release. To say that we are not going to promote their content until we have obtained fairer contracts.” They also advise “to choose costumes inspired by characters not affiliated with studios such as a ghost, a zombie, a spider…” But no superheroes from Marvel, nor references to key characters from recent films and series.

Unless otherwise specified, The Hollywood Reporter : movies Ferrari, Priscilla And Eileen have, for example, obtained exemptions so that their actors can support them publicly. Because they had been produced outside of traditional studios, more independently. If actors want to dress up in reference to the car manufacturer or to Elvis Presley and his young wife, this will be possible.

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If the writers’ strike ended at the end of September, the WGA having obtained a fairer salary base and a ban on pre-writing scripts using artificial intelligence, negotiations are at a standstill regarding actors.

SAG-AFTRA is trying to earn 2% for actors on revenues recorded by streaming their films or series, as well as stricter supervision of the use of AI, following the scanned extras scandal so that their digital image can be reused ad vitam aeternam for second shots.

So far, this is getting nowhere. Stars such as George Clooney met this week with the main executives of production companies to try to get out of the crisis, but it could well last until 2024. Especially since the union has reaped significant donations allowing it to help its most vulnerable members for several months.

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