From „Avatar 3“ to „Dune: Part Two“ and the next two Avengers films, actors and writers strikes this year have impacted some of Hollywood’s biggest franchises.
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The scheduled release of the eighth installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise has been pushed back a year due to the ongoing actors strike that forced production to pause back in July, the Associated Press reported, adding the Tom Cruz-starring series to a lengthy list of films that have been rescheduled due to this year’s Hollywood strikes.Key Facts
The new Mission:Impossible joins A Quiet Place: Day One in having its release date pushed back this week and is among a list of more than a dozen feature films that won’t premiere on time due to work stoppages.
Actors have been striking for more than three months as they battle with studios over streaming residual payments, limiting the use of artificial intelligence in Hollywood productions, wage increases and extended healthcare coverage.
The start of the actors‘ strike on July 14 coincided with a work stoppage by writers that together brought almost all TV and movie production to a halt this summer and delayed the release of original programming across network television, movie studios and streaming services.
The Writers Guild of America has since reached a deal with studios and writers have gone back to work—restarting shows like Saturday Night Live and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver—but filming for movies and productions using union actors has not resumed, nor has promotion work for any upcoming releases. What To Watch For
Negotiations between the SAG-AFTRA actors union and Hollywood studios are set to resume Tuesday after they broke down earlier this month over a $500 million streaming residuals ask from the union.Big Number
$500 million. That’s how much Warner Bros. Discovery said it expects to cut from its adjusted earnings “predominantly due to the impact of the strikes.“ The strikes were estimated to have cost California’s economy an estimated $3 billion as of August 9.Movies Delayed By The 2023 Hollywood Strikes
Poor Things—The Searchlight Pictures film starring Emma Stone will now premiere on December 8, 2023 after pushing an initial premiere date set for September, according to The Wrap.
