Ted Sarandos: SAG-AFTRA Talks Fell Apart After Proposal of Levy on Each Streaming Subscriber (narwhal.city)

submitted 1 year ago by realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city to c/moviesandtv@lemmy.film

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"A levy on top of our revenue or per subscriber, with no insight into the revenue per subscriber or anything, that just felt like a bridge too far to add this deep into the negotiation,” the Netflix co-chief said.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/ted-sarandos-sag-aftra-talks-1235616760/

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[-] FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Hollywood Reporter is owned by Eldridge Industries, which among other holding owns a studio that makes shows for Netflix.

[-] realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city 0 points 1 year ago

Whoa...I can't believe I didn't know this!

[-] iheartneopets@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Misleading information about what's going on has been the bread and butter of execs since the start. It's been their tactic since the very beginnings of the strike to try and turn public opinion against the movement.

SAG-AFTRA's statement here

this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2023

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