While change in the business landscape of Hollywood is inevitable (heck, the strikes are happening specifically because change has *already* occurred, and the business side wants workers to ignore the changes and just keep trucking along with contracts/agreements drafted for a previous era) I don't think the lack of the greater public playing attention to Hollywood labor markets is a sign of anything. I think that has always been the case. No one outside of the film/tv world has ever had any idea how Hollywood works, what the etiquette is, etc. So when talk of contract re-negotiations arises, anyone not directly embedded has little understanding of the issues at hand. To them, film/tv just gets made, somehow, and they're not fretting over that actually stopping in any significant way, even if they kind-of understand that this could happen at a level where they'd eventually notice.
And Paltrow may be a product of Hollywood, but she hasn't had any skin in the labor market game for quite some time. If anything, her critics usually point out how completely out of touch she's been to anything resembling practical considerations for "normal" people.
Say it isn't so! I don't want to see the "Hollywood Sign" turn back into a reference to a real estate development instead of the beacon of a globally beloved platform for creativity that it has become. I grew up in this "town", and my Great Uncles worked the studio back lots and were making talkies, radio shows, and movies. The show must go on even if it is streamed on YouTube!
While change in the business landscape of Hollywood is inevitable (heck, the strikes are happening specifically because change has *already* occurred, and the business side wants workers to ignore the changes and just keep trucking along with contracts/agreements drafted for a previous era) I don't think the lack of the greater public playing attention to Hollywood labor markets is a sign of anything. I think that has always been the case. No one outside of the film/tv world has ever had any idea how Hollywood works, what the etiquette is, etc. So when talk of contract re-negotiations arises, anyone not directly embedded has little understanding of the issues at hand. To them, film/tv just gets made, somehow, and they're not fretting over that actually stopping in any significant way, even if they kind-of understand that this could happen at a level where they'd eventually notice.
And Paltrow may be a product of Hollywood, but she hasn't had any skin in the labor market game for quite some time. If anything, her critics usually point out how completely out of touch she's been to anything resembling practical considerations for "normal" people.
Say it isn't so! I don't want to see the "Hollywood Sign" turn back into a reference to a real estate development instead of the beacon of a globally beloved platform for creativity that it has become. I grew up in this "town", and my Great Uncles worked the studio back lots and were making talkies, radio shows, and movies. The show must go on even if it is streamed on YouTube!