Cowards.

How do you convince the winning Monopoly players to stop playing Monopoly and move us onto another game?

A question for the ages.

That’s his secret. He’s always a decent person.

That's exactly why it's in their interest to oppose the merger. The fewer companies that own Studios the more likely is that you'll be blacklisted or not hired for whatever Ticky tack reasons they can think of

Well, then, Universal gets all the big stars then. Or, they start their own studio with blackjack and hookers. The studios need the talent more than the talent needs the studios, the talent needs to realize that and work together.

I already liked Mark, (I just did a guilty rewatch of 13 Going on 30) but now I'm a die-hard.

you're going to get blacklisted regardless. Studios WILL start using AI actors until the audience stops consuming and then pivot to something else. The problem is we're a vocal minority that says no to this shit while the vast majority either simply don't care or just aren't informed or find it all really cool.

probably a bad example but I used to be a fan of Leo Laporte. the guy taught me pretty much everything I know about computers and what have you. I grew up watching him on the screen savers and call for help. I subscribe to his podcast network TWiT. but now? he drank so much of the LLM kool-aid that I just can't respect what he says anymore. and you see it with the rest of his audience, they've turned on him and he simply doesn't care. he'll keep praising Claude Code until he's dead in the ground.

Good man. At least the guy is doing something

So.... we'll probably never hear from him again? In 8 years, someone might say in passing, "what ever happened to mark ruffalo?"

Because it will. Ask Jane Fonda.

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I vow to pay actual money to see one movie from any actor who signs the open letter.

Actors dont get million dollar sallaries for nothing. They are supposed to lick the cogs of the machine.

Because they will?

that sounds like coglickery

Hollywood actors are nothing if not cowards these days. They pander to their fans harder than politicians on election day.

They will and that's the whole point of oligopoly, taking control by minimizing personal agency.

They should instead boycott it and do it through SAG