How about we all jump into indies now? Content creators create a film & TV-making system alongside the studio & streaming networks? So there is actual competition. 🧵 deadline.com/2023/07/actors…
Then we just do what we always do—create great content & they can buy it, or we take it out ourselves & WE share in those sales. They’ve created an empire of billionaires & believe that we are no longer of value. While they hang out in the billionaire boy summer camps laughing like fat cats, we organize a new world for workers.
One sure way to strengthen our hand right now is to become very supportive & friendly to all independent projects immediately. Push every SAG-AFTRA member to join the ones that get SAG-AFTRA (WGA) WAIVERS immediately. The studios have no competition—this will change that.
Share profits. If the project does well, everyone does well. This will also help our fellow filmmakers “The Crew,” who we love, to keep working. This is also part of #Solidarity. We have to take care of each other. @frandrescher
@MarkRuffalo Pretty genius….if you can get anything close to studio quality we’ve come to love and consume greedily I think this could be a major game changer
@MarkRuffalo Would love to have come on our Spaces and learn how film3 helps - creator led communities owning their own IP, redistribution of profits and royalties and control of film distribution. There are solutions!
Not overly supportive though Mark. Keep in mind you don't want to saturate the market. Maybe involve the audience more from preproduction to release. Have the audience help fund projects by selling them a share. If the budget is met then the movie goes to production. Connecting the audience with the product makes them promoters of the product. This model will help the industry know what the audience is willing to pay for. We have the technology.
@MarkRuffalo I wish you and everyone on strike the best of luck. Without actors and writers, some of our favorite things would never had been brought to life. FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT!
@MarkRuffalo You´re right! You see the problem clearly and explain it very clear too, in such a way that all of us can understand it, and support your ideas to solve it! I´m with you and all your collegues! I wish you the best!
@MarkRuffalo something i was wondering mark is could the unions (sagaftra, wga etc) just open their own studio?
@MarkRuffalo And it will be better content because it won’t be another remake or a safe idea