Hollywood’s Dual Strike Is Over, and the Studios Lost
The writers and actors didn’t get everything they wanted, but they forced their bosses to blink.
Two months into the Writers Guild of America’s 2023 strike, sourced entirely from studio executives’ anonymous quotes appeared in the trade publication . “I think we’re in for a long strike, and they’re going to let it bleed out,” said someone reportedly “intimate with the POV of studio CEOs.” “The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,” remarked another. A third called the coldheartedness of that approach “a cruel but necessary evil.” “Not Halloween precisely, but late October, for sure,
