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How the Hollywood strike is scrambling film, TV schedules into next summer

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LOS ANGELES — Santa Claus will not be coming to Hollywood this year. Dear Santa, a comedy by the Farrelly brothers about a young boy who accidentally sends a letter to Satan instead of Santa, will not reach theatres this holiday season, one of many victims of a prolonged actors’ strike that has set the US entertainment industry reeling from...

SAG-AFTRA members walk the picket line during their ongoing strike outside Sony Studios in Culver City, California, US Sept 29, 2023.LOS ANGELES — Santa Claus will not be coming to Hollywood this year.

While film and television writers have ended their 148-day work stoppage, talks between actors and studios broke down last week and both sides said they remain far apart on many issues with no negotiations scheduled. “The whole release calendar is going to be tossed around,” said one studio executive, who identified two major movies and an animated sequel with release plans that have been tossed into the wind. “The whole thing is a giant Rubik’s Cube.”

Add to those concerns a struggling movie business, whose holiday quarter box-office proceeds could fall 30 per cent or more below pre-pandemic levels, as the actors’ strike forces the delayed release of several movies.

 

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