Hollywood’s Slow Post-Strike Comeback Is Creating a Crisis of Morale

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“We have a generation of people who have never seen anything like this in terms of not working,” Lindsay Dougherty of Teamsters Local 399 says

Diane Haithman
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At last month’s 11th annual Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards (MUAHS) at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, host Melissa Peterman won over the crowd by dancing her way onto the stage, mugging and teetering on spike heels and hitting them early on with a strike joke: “I’m so glad to be back in this beautiful room with you beautiful people and not sweating on the sidewalk with a sign that says ‘Will work for streaming bonuses!’”

The actor-comedian’s next line, however, didn’t go over quite so well. “I’m so glad that we are all back to work!” Peterman bubbled. Hairstylist Christopher Fulton, one of the evening’s nominees, told TheWrap afterward that a “collective grumble” went through the room.

Diane Haithman

Diane Haithman

Senior Entertainment Business Reporter • diane@thewrap.com • @dhaithman Diane came to TheWrap from a position as Staff Reporter at The Los Angeles Business Journal, covering Entertainment/Media, Philanthropy and Style. Diane was a Los Angeles Times Staff Writer for two decades, covering arts, culture and the TV industry. Her novel Dark Lady of Hollywood was published…

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2 responses to “Hollywood’s Slow Post-Strike Comeback Is Creating a Crisis of Morale”

  1. Simon Avatar
    Simon

    Have you gone to the movies lately? Me either as all they are offering is WOKE PC garbage or a remake of another movie, that was already a remake of another. It seems that Hollywood has dug themselves quite a hole. I Feel for all the people involved in production of TV and movies, there is a tremendous amount of talent and skill idling. Even bad movies are technically good when evaluating lighting, makeup costumes, and the rest of the supporting crew. Who is it that makes the decision to redo a movie rather than create new content? Is there lack of confidence that the writers can’t come up with a good idea or is it just simply money? The studio says we made $$ last time we released it, lets do it again with new cheaper actors, don’t need to spend to much on writing and the current flock of teenagers that go to the movies have no idea that the movie was out when they were babies. Are the studios so disconnected from reality that they can’t see that they are committing suicide?

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  2. Mike Avatar
    Mike

    Hollywood will be much smaller. People just watched a 5 hour TikTok about ‘Who TF Did I Marry.’ That, or pay $50 to see a movie? No Thanks. Audiences will be scrolling.

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