A day after joyfully ending coverage of the writers strike, there's already indications that a threatened Screen Actors Guild walkout is having an impact on movie production schedules.
The current contract between the Screen Actors Guild, studios and networks expires at the end of June. Since no studio wants to start a multi-million dollar production and have its star go on strike midway through the shoot, the understanding around the industry is that no major films will go into production within six weeks of June 30. That leaves a drop-dead date for starting principle photography a couple months from now.
Already films in pre-production (working through script polishing, casting, art design, etc.) are fading into limbo because producers didn't expect to roll camera before May 15. Not even the great Steven Spielberg and his Chicago 7 project is immune to the weary specter of yet another Hollywood strike.
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