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The joint strikes by SAG-AFTRA and WGA have halted all current productions since July 14, 2023, impacting everyone in the industry from big-name actors to background performers. The strikes aim to fight against executives using AI technology in future films and TV series, as well as address concerns about working conditions, compensation, and unauthorized use of digital likenesses. The last joint strike between the two unions in the 1960s led to major disruptions in the industry, halting production on eight major movies. The resolution was achieved with the help of negotiations led by future U.S. President Ronald Reagan, benefiting both writers and actors.

The WGA and SAG-AFTRA are striking together again since their first joint strike in 1960. The Writers Guild of America is protesting against major Hollywood studios like Sony, Universal, and Warner Bros., which will in turn impact most streaming services. SAG-AFTRA has now begun their strike within the last...

The 2023 SAG & WGA dual strike marks the first time that the two Hollywood unions have protested simultaneously in over six decades. The Writers Guild of America is being joined in protest against major Hollywood studios such as Sony, Universal, and Warner Bros. as well as tech streaming giants Netflix, Apple, and Amazon. SAG-AFTRA begins their strike more than two months after the WGA started theirs, which will prohibit all 160,000 members from participating in new productions or promoting upcoming television and movie releases. The SAG-AFTRA strike affects everyone from Hollywood's biggest celebrity actors to lesser-known background actors.

The combined SAG and WGA strike will force all current productions to halt as of July 14, 2023 as writers and actors alike combat executive efforts to increasingly rely on AI technology for future films and television series. Writers who have been weary about the threat of AI-generated screenplays are joined in solidarity by actors who...

Article by Dana Jung

Decades before there was ‘J-Lo’. or ‘LiLo’, we had ‘La Lollo’,. one of the most beautiful actresses ever to grace movie screens, Gina Lollobrigida. Along with Sophia Loren, Elsa Martinelli, Monica Vitti, and others during the new wave. of Italian and European cinema, she gained fame as an international sex star in the 1950’s and 60s in low-budget Italian films with racy titles such as Fast & Sexy and Go Naked In The World. But when Loren won her Oscar for Two Women, Lollobrigida was already 35 years old, way beyond starlet status. In 1968 (ironically the same year her compatriot actresses Claudia Cardinale & Luciana Paluzzi respectively starred in the cult classics Once Upon A Time In The West and The Green Slime), Gina made probably her best Hollywood film, Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell, which is sadly not available on DVD.

A pleasant mash-up of Hollywood screwball comedy and Italian sex farce,...