I know little about the behind the scenes machinations in the US film/tv world.
The one union says they have been on strike since May.
That is, in my opinion, a long time.
Which may indicate that the other party is not hurting too much from it?
On a sidenote:
With the horrible quality of the major films and tv show these days,
these guys should be on strike demanding higher quality productions.
Soom seems to be
"Ok give me an explosion here"
"Move 3 steps"
"Give me an explosion there"
"You get on the motorcycle. "
"I need 3 explosions there and then you four open up with machine guns"
Some movies seem to have bypassed the script writing entirely
It's basically a blip in AV production times. Hollywood movies will typically take one or two years to be made; so you won't see the economic effects of a strike for some time. TV starts hurting faster but it also hurts less, because you have sports, news, and reruns, to pick up most of the slack.
If this was, say, a NBA strike, we'd currently be towards the end of pre-season.
Most movies seem to be "written" as a collection of scenes that the directors and producers want to see and then they tell the writers to make those fit together in a story.
> these guys should be on strike demanding higher quality productions
That is one of the goals around getting some baseline requirements around writer's rooms; they want to stop a hollowing-out race to the bottom with writing in Hollywood that has been going on for a while.
On a sidenote: With the horrible quality of the major films and tv show these days, these guys should be on strike demanding higher quality productions.
Soom seems to be "Ok give me an explosion here" "Move 3 steps" "Give me an explosion there" "You get on the motorcycle. " "I need 3 explosions there and then you four open up with machine guns"
Some movies seem to have bypassed the script writing entirely