How Hollywood Strikes Could Affect Telluride and TIFF: ‘Fall Festivals Are F—ed’
variety.comClayton Davis Senior Awards Editor “Fall festivals are fucked.” That was one studio executive’s blunt assessment about the impact of an actors’ strike on the rapidly approaching Telluride, Toronto and New York film festivals.
Showcasing Oscar contenders at these annual events is going to be much more difficult now that SAG-AFTRA has joined the WGA on the picket lines. “You can’t premiere movies anywhere without your stars,” the executive said. “No stars, no movie.” And SAG-AFTRA has made it clear that its members are not to do any promotional activity around their movies until a new contract deal is reached and ratified.
So that means that the red carpets that make these festivals massive media events will be significantly less celebrity-studded.
So why would studios shell out hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars, to launch a movie at one of these gatherings?
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