Here are all the movies and shows that have been granted waivers to film during the strike
In certain cases, SAG-AFTRA has granted films produced under independent studios the right to continue work without crossing any picket lines
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While the historic double strike between the WGA and SAG-AFTRA has caused the wheels of Hollywood to all but grind to a halt, some select productions have been granted special permission by the guild to film without crossing any picket lines.
Per the rules of the strike, “non-AMPTP, independently-produced content” may be granted an “Interim Agreement” that allows work to continue as long as the “producer agrees to abide by the terms that SAG-AFTRA is seeking from the AMPTP.” This group of fringe content is larger than one might think, with even major-ish studios like A24 that don’t belong to AMPTP (which represents major studios such as Disney, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Amazon, Sony, and Warner Bros.) being granted the right to work.
This week, the guild released a full list of all the productions that have signed Interim Agreements. We’ve reproduced that list below, along with what we know about them.
Films and TV shows that are still in production
- Aguadilla: a film about “two migrants [who] misrepresent their personal relationship as they attempt to swindle a disabled landowner” (per a casting notice).
- Anniversary
- Armadilla
- Beneath The Grass: a drama about marijuana incarceration rates starring Mía Maestro, Quincy Isaiah, and Jeff Kober (per Variety).
- Beyond Belief: Fact Or Fiction: season 6 of a series that plays 5 short stories and encourages audiences to guess which of them actually happened
- Beyond The Walls
- Bob Trevino Likes It: a film based on a true story about a young caretaker who “unexpectedly befriends a grieving, childless man with the same name as her father on Facebook” (per the project’s website).
- Bride Hard: an action comedy starring Rebel Wilson (per Deadline).
- The Cafone
- The Chosen: The CW’s Jesus show
- Death Of A Unicorn: an A24 film starring Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd
- A Desert
- Don’t Move
- Dream Devil: a fantasy tale about a down on his luck old man who finds a strange medallion (per IMDB).
- Dust Bunny: a Bryan Fuller-directed horror film starring Mads Mikkelsen (per Collider).
- Exhibiting Forgiveness: a Titus Kaphar directed film about “a successful artist’s inner turmoil over attempting to reconnect with his estranged and abusive father” (per a casting notice).
- F-PLUS: a film about a high-achieving seventh grader who recruits a group of misfits to help him steal a test (per a casting notice).
- Flight Risk
- Ganymede: a film about a high school senior who is haunted by a faceless creature after developing a crush on a gay classmate (per IMDB).
- The Greatest Ever
- Ick: a film about an alien substance that takes over the world (per a casting notice).
- Isaac: a film about two grieving parents who turn to a company working on genetically modified babies (per IMDB).
- Just Breathe: a film about a man who gets out of prison to find out his partner has started dating his parole officer (per a casting notice).
- The Killer’s Game: an action-comedy starring Ben Kingsley, Sofia Boutella, and Dave Bautista (per Deadline).
- King Ivory: a film about fentanyl (per IMDB).
- Mother Mary: an A24 “pop music epic” from David Lowery starring Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel (per Deadline).
- Mother, May I?: a psychological thriller about a woman possessed by her recently deceased mother (per IMDB).
- Mourning Rock
- Osiris
- Paradise And Lunch
- Queen Of The Ring: an Ash Avildsen produced film about Hall of Fame wrestler Mildred Burke (per IMDB).
- The Ritual
- Rivals Of Amziah King: a true-crime thriller starring Matthew McConaughey
- Sell Out
- The Short Game
- Sight Unseen (23/24)
- Sod And Stubble: a movie about a German immigrant couple who start a new life in Kansas (per the film’s website).
- The Sound
- The Tower
- Transamazonia
- Untitled Rebuilding Project
- The Watchers: a movie about a girl who is stalked by mysterious creatures in a forest in Ireland, starring Dakota Fanning (per IMDB).
- Week End Escape Project
- Weekend Escape
- The Yellow Tie: a biopic of a Berlin philharmonic conductor starring Sean Bean, Miranda Richardson, and John Malkovich
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How strange that these independent productions can afford to abide by the new guidelines but the billion dollar corporations can’t. It’s almost like those corporations are fucking liars.
It’s because the independent productions don’t have a contract with SAG-AFTRA; the billion dollar corporations -do-.
What? No. These production got an Interim Agreement because they agreed to work under all the guidelines that SAG-AFTRA is demanding from the studios. That’s, like, the whole point?This is how the ‘07-08 writers strike ended. Letterman produced his show independently, so he had the ability to give his writers everything that was being asked that the networks were refusing. By agreeing to the new contract, he both got his material on air before the competitors AND proved that the demands weren’t unreasonable. It’s a win/win.https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/business/media/16strike.htmlAnyway, that’s the whole point of this article but thanks for the opportunity to exhaustively explain my joke thus ruining it.
Large studios also have a lot more mouths to feed than independent studios. The film business is just going through the same growing pains the music business has been going through since the advent of digital music. The wheel needs to be reinvented so everyone can figure out how to keep making money. It’s trickier for film because, while musicians now make essentially no money from sales and streams, at least they can still tour to make money. For films and TV there just aren’t the same opportunities to make up the loss and it has to come from somewhere since DVD/Blu-Ray sales are essentially dead.
Yep, my brain totally misinterpreted all of the things. I somehow read it as non AMPTP projects were allowed to be grandfathered in. It took me too long to digest everything. Stupid heat wave…
No prob! My response was more terse than needed only because I was afraid other people might misinterpret me. No room for misinterpretation during a PR war for people’s livelihoods!
Dust Bunny: a Bryan Fuller-directed horror film starring Mads Mikkelsenwoah woah woah woah back upBEEP BEEEP BEEEPHow is this the first I’m hearing about this?
Beep beeep beeep?
If you’re an independent film, you don’t have to worry about the AI stuff, or any future raises, and you have no control over streaming residuals (right?), so it seems like a pretty easy bar to meet.https://www.avclub.com/here-are-three-of-the-biggest-demands-striking-actors-a-1850644889
When a film’s rights is sold to streamers, wouldn’t the terms of sale include residuals? If that’s the case, these productions are basically making the residual commitment up-front and thus makes it harder for them to sell their streaming rights until the strike is resolved. The cost to the producers here would be a loss of opportunity to stream quickly.With the raises, these productions are agreeing to the SAG-AFTRA demands so they’d be implementing whatever changes to day rates are in there.Like the other comment referencing Letterman said, these are probably also valuable test cases that can either help or hurt the unions’ cases.
A24 is all I need
You can only choose one for the rest of your life: A24 or the MCU?
A24. As much as I love the MCU, I can’t argue that it’s much more than low-effort comfort viewing (especially since Phase 3 ended).
hmmm, Aguadilla sounds like Terrence Malick should be getting a check in the mailalso DAMN, a new season of Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction?!? wonder if Jonathan Frakes is involved
He is. But from what I can find it’s some German revival of the show where they just film the Frakes stuff in LA. I’m not sure there are plans to air it in the US(although when the content dries up maybe we will get lucky)
We made it up.
Rivals Of Amziah King: a true-crime thriller starring Matthew McConaughey
I’ve heard that one is directed by Andrew Patterson, who previously directed The Vast of Night. That was one of the most impressive directorial debuts I’ve seen, and I’d heard he’d already directed another film before Vast of Night was released, so I’d been waiting to hear what that was.
I got excited because I thought we were getting a revival of Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction. It appears this is a German only production with just the Frakes bit filmed in LA. Which means, Germans love Jonathan Frakes.