The Screen Actors Guild—the union that represents American film and TV actors—is going on strike tonight at midnight.
"Everybody's going to be walking off sets. So this is shutting down Hollywood," Tucson Filmmaker Mark Headley tells me. Both groups are concerned about the future use of artificial intelligence and residuals in the streaming TV era. Catalanotte knows film and TV production in Tucson is slow during the summer months. He says Arizona's new film tax rebate—which offers studios up to $75 million in incentives this year—did spark a lot of interest from Hollywood before the writers strike.
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