>columnist Richard Rushfield was handing out free swag (at Cinema Con). It was nothing fancy, just a pin that read “Block The Merger”
And in response Paramount not only pulled all its advertising… they told all its talent that they were forbidden to speak to any of its reporters.
Quaterni0 on
This isn’t the big studio era anymore from teh 1930s, this kind of power play can disenfranchise a lot of talent.
ZaireekaFuzz on
The Ellisons and other film execs are trying their best to go back to the times of Louis B. Mayer and the Warner Bros, where studios owned actors and treated them like expendable cattle with barely any rights.
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>columnist Richard Rushfield was handing out free swag (at Cinema Con). It was nothing fancy, just a pin that read “Block The Merger”
And in response Paramount not only pulled all its advertising… they told all its talent that they were forbidden to speak to any of its reporters.
This isn’t the big studio era anymore from teh 1930s, this kind of power play can disenfranchise a lot of talent.
The Ellisons and other film execs are trying their best to go back to the times of Louis B. Mayer and the Warner Bros, where studios owned actors and treated them like expendable cattle with barely any rights.