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How Hollywood’s Double Strike Is Still Reverberating Across the Pond: Scheduling Chaos, Less Content and More Willingness to Strike
Last year's Hollywood strikes might be wrapped up, but the U.K. and other parts of the world are still feeling the effects.
The dust hasn’t settled enough yet to be able to say whether that’s because it’s “still too soon” or because of a variety of other factors such as inflationary pressures, AI, new terms with U.K. crew union Bectu or simply because studios have had time to change their minds about projects. During the Parliamentary inquiry in January, CEO of the U.K. Cinema Association Phil Clapp told Members of Parliament that the strikes had delayed post-pandemic recovery of the global sector by around a year. It’s something the producer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, has experienced first-hand, having worked on a big-budget limited drama with an A-list star that was just a week away from wrapping last year when the strikes shut down production for six months.
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