The health plans that cover most of the creative community are under water as costs soar, at the same time that the expansion of generative AI tools in content creation is creating vexing issues around copyright protection and creative consent. And then there’s the wave of consolidation among studios and the sharp downtown in TV and film production jobs in the U.S., let alone Southern California.
Russ Hollander, national executive director of the Directors Guild of America, sat down for a wide-ranging interview with Variety‘s “Strictly Business” podcast as SAG-AFTRA prepares to kick off the collective bargaining cycle with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
For a change, the DGA will not be the first up at the table with the major studios and streamers.
‘ The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties ’
‘ Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com ’














