As SAG-AFTRA remains locked in tense negotiations with video game giants, the actors union has released a new contract designed to cover a larger number of indie and lower-budget gaming projects and create “pressure” in the bargaining room with major companies.
The union’s new Tiered-Budget Independent Interactive Media Agreement, announced Wednesday, contains provisions — especially on AI — that major companies involved in SAG-AFTRA’s ongoing Interactive Media Agreement talks have resisted, according to SAG-AFTRA national executive director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland. He compared the new deal to SAG-AFTRA’s interim agreements, which allowed members to work on independent projects during the union’s 2023 film and television strike. “I think it’s really going to highlight, like the interim agreements did last year, the unreasonableness that some of these video game companies are bringing to our attempts to negotiate a deal that provides just basic fair protection to our members who are working in video games,...
The union’s new Tiered-Budget Independent Interactive Media Agreement, announced Wednesday, contains provisions — especially on AI — that major companies involved in SAG-AFTRA’s ongoing Interactive Media Agreement talks have resisted, according to SAG-AFTRA national executive director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland. He compared the new deal to SAG-AFTRA’s interim agreements, which allowed members to work on independent projects during the union’s 2023 film and television strike. “I think it’s really going to highlight, like the interim agreements did last year, the unreasonableness that some of these video game companies are bringing to our attempts to negotiate a deal that provides just basic fair protection to our members who are working in video games,...
- 2/8/2024
- by Katie Kilkenny
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
SAG-AFTRA and the AFL-CIO will host their third annual Labor Innovation & Technology Summit on Friday – a full-day virtual program bringing together union, technology, entertainment and media leaders to discuss the future of work.
This year’s Summit will include discussions with key industry leaders & influencers on:
• The rise of streaming services
• The changing business model for content distribution
• Emerging uses for volumetric video
• Combatting deepfakes
• Gaming and voiceover trends
• How innovation and Covid-19 are impacting essential workers
SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris will open the event, which will include keynote speeches by Liz Shuler, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, and Tristan Harris, co-founder and president of the Center for Humane Technology.
David White, SAG-AFTRA’s national executive director, will discuss the HBO-Warner Bros. deal that shattered conventional film distribution models and its potential impact on the industry.
Click here to register for the program, which is free and open to the public.
This year’s Summit will include discussions with key industry leaders & influencers on:
• The rise of streaming services
• The changing business model for content distribution
• Emerging uses for volumetric video
• Combatting deepfakes
• Gaming and voiceover trends
• How innovation and Covid-19 are impacting essential workers
SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris will open the event, which will include keynote speeches by Liz Shuler, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, and Tristan Harris, co-founder and president of the Center for Humane Technology.
David White, SAG-AFTRA’s national executive director, will discuss the HBO-Warner Bros. deal that shattered conventional film distribution models and its potential impact on the industry.
Click here to register for the program, which is free and open to the public.
- 2/18/2021
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Late last year, developer MidBoss announced that they would be bringing their debut effort Read Only Memories to the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in 2016. After months of waiting, the studio finally revealed that their cyberpunk adventure will launch on Sony consoles on August 16.
Newly rechristened as 2064: Read Only Memories, the title transports players to Neo-San Francisco, 2064 A.D. You play as a struggling journalist whose life is interrupted by the arrival of a Rom (Relationship and Organizational Manager) named Turing. Soon enough, the two of you are thrown into a deep mystery that begins as a missing persons case, but develops into something much more complicated.
Back when the title was originally released on PC, there was no voice acting for any of the numerous denizens of Neo-San Francisco. MidBoss was able to make due with enthralling written text and animation. For this pseudo-Director’s Cut edition of Read Only Memories,...
Newly rechristened as 2064: Read Only Memories, the title transports players to Neo-San Francisco, 2064 A.D. You play as a struggling journalist whose life is interrupted by the arrival of a Rom (Relationship and Organizational Manager) named Turing. Soon enough, the two of you are thrown into a deep mystery that begins as a missing persons case, but develops into something much more complicated.
Back when the title was originally released on PC, there was no voice acting for any of the numerous denizens of Neo-San Francisco. MidBoss was able to make due with enthralling written text and animation. For this pseudo-Director’s Cut edition of Read Only Memories,...
- 6/23/2016
- by Eric Hall
- We Got This Covered
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