The Hollywood writers' strike entered its third day, and the television industry was hit hard, especially talk shows. In addition, the screenwriters of a series of popular dramas such as "Desperate Housewives", "Plastic Surgery Room", and "Lost" have all joined the demonstrations, and many celebrities have come out to support the screenwriters.

Thousands of writers came to the Warner Bros. "Desperate Housewives" filming site to demonstrate, and "Housewife" Eva Longoria and actress Julia Louis de Liface cheered on the writers. Eva was even on hand to give pizza pies. In addition, "Sweet Sister" Meg Ryan came to the New York strike site to visit her screenwriter friends, the popular candidate for the next president of the United States, Senator *** claimed to be on the side of the screenwriter, and Hillary Clinton called on the two sides to sign a contract to recognize the great contribution made by screenwriters in the entire entertainment industry.

The results of the strike were immediate: The second season of "Heroes" has only been filmed in episode 11, and because of the strike, the crew had to urgently reshoot the ending of episode 11 before the strike began, making it look more like a "finale". Since the new script has not yet arrived, the crew of "Desperate Housewives" suspended filming on the 7th.

However, the media pointed out that "when the strike enters a state of continuity, some low-income screenwriters will be financially stretched, and their confidence will be severely damaged." ”

In the 2001 strike of the Screen Actors Guild and the Producers' Union, Tom Cruise and many other big-name actors were strong supporters of the strike, but some of the young actors affiliated with the Screen Actors Guild were unable to work, and some went bankrupt.

If this strike continues, will low-income screenwriters be able to take up their own jobs in order to make ends meet? The answer is no. According to the rules of the Screenwriters' Association: if its members continue to work during the strike, such members will not only be punished with heavy fines, but will also be disqualified from membership in the Screenwriters Guild, and even the producer's home will not be allowed to enter.

On November 13, the writers continued to strike and demonstrate, and on this day, members of the Screen Actors Guild took collective action in solidarity with the writers, and the massive parade at Universal Studios was full of stars, including "Today Show" host Jay Reno, movie stars Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Sarah Field, Felicity Hoffman, etc., and "Desperate Housewives" Lulu, the star dog, hung placards as members of the Screen Actors Guild in protest, and Nicollet Sheridan even broke out that she was pregnant with her boyfriend Michael Burton's baby that day, and still held signs to march.

However, many big-name stars have not taken a stand, but as more and more projects are suspended, more and more star actors will join the ranks.

In terms of the best locations for demonstrations, the headquarters of the Big Six, Universal Studios, and Warner Bros. Studios were the hardest hit areas, and a small number of screenwriters from MM Headquarters, Columbia Pictures, and MGM were also demonstrating, which was the least of the Big Six.

In this crisis, MM has had problems with several major projects and is considered to be the hardest hit area, with heavy losses, who makes MM a die-hard supporter of the blockbuster strategy?

In fact, MM's "007: Quantum of Solace", "Angels and Devils", "Iron Man 2", "Thor", "Hulk 2", "Superman for All" and other self-made factories are still released on time, as for the rumored affected "The Hobbit" and "Spider-Man 4", these two movies have not yet been officially established, saying that they are not affected by this.

In 2004, a "hangover" made the three best men remember, and now they have teamed up again to bring the new "The Hangover 2", one of the most anticipated sequels of the second half of the year, the film was released in North America on Halloween in November, and the midnight show of the premiere grossed $12 million in 2,600 theaters, a record for the midnight box office of an R-rated film.

"The Hangover 2" was released in 3,870 theaters in North America, which will also be the largest release range of R-rated films, and the box office is also expected to exceed 20 million on the first day, and the box office of "The Hangover 2" will reach $125 million in the first four days, but Warner and MGM are more cautious, and their expectations are $100 million.

"The Hangover 2" created another miracle After the film detonated from midnight on Thursday, it swept the box office of $27 million in one day, thus refreshing the highest box office in Hollywood film history on Thursday's opening day, the highest box office on Thursday's midnight show, The highest release of an R-rated film and the record for the best R-rated film with the best debut on Thursday, Hollywood box office authorities believe that the film is expected to grossed between $110 million and $125 million after a weekend, becoming another film in film history to break 100 million.

The $27 million box office on the opening day of "The Hangover 2" is indeed rare in film history, and only three super-blockbusters have reached this kind of power before, including "Star Wars Prequel 3: Revenge of the Sith" for $50 million, "The Matrix 2" for $37.5 million, and "Star Wars Prequel 2: Attack of the Clones" for $30.1 million, but none of these movies were released on Thursday, and "The Hangover" as a comedy drama can create such an amazing result, which cannot but be said to be a special case.

has such a strong achievement, I dare not say that I have broken the 365 million results of the previous work, but it is also a few percent, MGM has not yet broken 300 million works in Beimi, the highest is "Twilight", Beimi 290 million, this "Hangover 2" is a work co-produced with Warner, but it did not affect MGM's good mood at all.

MM has three and two works that break 300 million in North this year, and this year's champion can't run, as for saying that "The Hobbit" can't be established, this thing is really not in a hurry, since the seventies, it's been almost 30 years, and I can wait for so long, but now I can't wait?

The new line played a lot of tricks on this project, and kept trying to fool Mark, leaving Peter Fat to go it alone, but Mark was unmoved until Martin became a major shareholder of Time Warner, and the new line thought that it was a family with Mark, and was fooling Mark again, recommending better directors.

was just asked by Mark: "His grades are better than Jackson's?"

Mark is determined that there is no Peter and no magic ring, and let his new line talk wildly, just don't bird him, Mark is Martin's "good friend", and he doesn't care about Martin's feelings about the shrimp soldiers and crab generals.

The screenwriters went on strike, MM films were not greatly affected, and his spare theater library was available for two or three years, and now the rest of the world understands how clever and far-sighted Mark is to spend a lot of money to buy dramas since this year, plus they will bring in and distribute some films from overseas and film festivals, and still maintain the scale of releasing more than 20 films a year.

And in order to express dissatisfaction with the writers' strike, MM recruited nearly 100 foreign screenwriters to respond to the emergency, all of whom are non-union members, although they cannot take the positions vacated by the strike, nor can they immediately take over their work, but at least it shows an attitude that there is no one in Hollywood who cannot be replaced.

A spokesman for MM News said that this was a forced move, although foreign screenwriters asked for a lower price, they still liked their own country, but because their own country was too trouble-making, they had to use alternatives.

This made many striking screenwriters in an uproar, this was originally their fat, but now it belongs to the gringos, which made them angry, and more people came to MM to demonstrate, but to their panic, other major companies followed suit, and they began to bring in talents from foreign countries, giving priority to the five friends in the English-speaking region, whose cultural values are similar and can be used as a substitute.

The screenwriters' union panicked, they organized more people to take to the streets, solemnly protested, and they also continued to wander around the homes of major star actors, hoping to lobby those well-known superstars to come out to support them, the publicity effect of a superstar is greater than that of 100 screenwriters, they have persuaded many celebrities to support, and they have also successfully persuaded the support and solidarity of the actors' union.

But the Screen Actors Guild said that they would only show solidarity at the moment, and would not take to the streets or go on strike, because they have contracts with film companies, and if they go on strike, they will lose money, and many actors will go bankrupt.

As if being reminded, Time Warner, Viacom, News Corp., Disney, and MM announced that they would sue more than 200 screenwriters for violating the spirit of the contract by accepting money from film companies and not doing anything.

In one day, the Los Angeles County District Court received more than 200 lawsuits, suing more than 200 screenwriters for violating the law, demanding that they compensate the company for losses, this spirit of contract is the basis of Western law, but also a kind of faith, breach of contract is a shameful act, no one will support and sympathize, the court accepted the film company's lawsuit, their spokesman said, the law is the law, they will do the law, will not back down because the law is not accountable, but they hope that the two sides will settle out of court and end peacefully.

The claims of the Big Five are as high as 256 million, and they are evenly distributed among individuals, each of which is worth millions of dollars, enough to bankrupt many people.

The hand of the five giants caught the screenwriters union off guard, and they were also angry, such a large amount of compensation, the screenwriters union could not get it, they issued a statement on the one hand, saying that they legally defended their rights, the company had no right to sue them, and organized lawyers to deal with the lawsuit, on the other hand, organized larger demonstrations, and also colored.

Now is the time of the traditional awards season, at this time of the year, it is already the beginning of various award ceremonies, all kinds of Olympic films began to warm up, this is called the sentinel war, in order to hit the Golden Globe Awards and the Oscars, in order to respond to the call of the Writers Guild and support their legal rights protection, many film awards began to be suspended, which brought a shadow to Hollywood's annual awards season.

The-for-tat behavior of the Writers Guild sparked even greater anger from the Producers Alliance, who claimed that the lawsuit would not stop, and announced that the Big Five and their subsidiaries would never hire these defaulting screenwriters again.