
It’s a constant hustle and it’s very demoralizing Actor Felicia Day The rise of new artificial intelligence technologies is only adding to their concern.

The new era of digital streaming has led to a dramatic decrease in how much money they make, they say. The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (Sag-Aftra), whose 160,000 members include some of the most famous performers in the world, had officially announced its members would be joining Hollywood’s 11,500 writers on the picket lines outside Disney, Warner Bros, and other major film and TV studios.īut it’s Netflix, and fellow streaming disruptors like Amazon and Apple, that are at the heart of the growing labor disputes that have now brought the film industry to a virtual standstill.īoth writers and actors say that technological changes in the industry are forcing them to negotiate hard for major changes in their contracts.
