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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll admit I had little patience for the actors’ strike until I read this article about how poorly the Orange is the New Black cast was compensated. These actors were working on a hit show that was critically acclaimed and made Netflix millions, and they still had to keep their day jobs to cover 5 am cab fare to the set. Insane.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/notes-on-hollywood/orange-is-the-new-black-signalled-the-rot-inside-the-streaming-economy[/quote]

People should read this article. It's eye-opening, folks.

It also dovetails with the writers' situation, where they are opening checks that are for pay in the dozens of dollars....[/quote]

I agree they aren’t compensated enough in this situation, but [b]they knew that when they took the job[/b].   Acting is a profession where supply of labor way exceeds demand.  If they weren’t happy with their pay they should choose another job.[/quote]

Re: the bold: This came up in comments to an Instagram post today of the actor Sean Gunn talking about how he was on "Gilmore Girls," which has gone on to stream successfully and make gobs of money for the streamer.

He couldn't have known when he "took the job" many years ago that the series would have this entire [i]second[/i] life on streaming, because streaming didn't exist then, or for a long while after. Now the show and others like it have gone on (as far as we know, streamers won't tell) to make new money for new execs who weren't even part of these shows originally. But the faces we see on screen don't see that money. The writers who wrote scripts don't see that money. The c[i]ontent creators[/i] aren't seeing it, but execs who simply buy up a "property" and toss it onto a streaming service do see personal profits.

Even if this can't be fixed for actors, like Gunn, who don't get fair compensation for work from long ago -- the SAME setup is still in existence for actors today,. They will be similarly screwed out of residuals. They cannot even point to their shows or films and say, "This is popular so I should be compensated accordingly. " Streaming companies do not do "ratings" like the old broadcast TV days. Streamers do not reveal how popular a show is or isn't. They keep this dark, in part, so that actors (and writers!) on those shows cannot make any argument that they should be paid more for a show that streams more times. [/quote]

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