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Strike two: this time, it will be a swing and a miss for film producers

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With SAG deadlines bearing down, it's becoming increasingly clear that while the writers' strike was primarily a television stoppage, this one, if it happens, will be a film one. Part of that is a function of the calendar -- when the WGA walked off, most television productions should have been in full swing, whereas now those shows are getting ready for summer hiatus anyway. Many film producers, on the other hand, desperately need to shoot now if they're going to meet studio slate needs, festival deadlines, etc.

But the other factor is the nature of the strike itself, which is designed to yank out the rug from projects that take longer to gestate and shoot - that is, films. By its nature a writers' walk off freezes things early in the development process, which means as long as you're past a certain hurdle (i.e., the script stage) you could move ahead unaffected. But an actors' strike freezes it later, when a project is seemingly in good shape, and so it means that you have to stop production even months ahead of the actual walkout lest a strike halt you mid-shoot.
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