from Disney Haunted Mansion The premiere, which took place at Disneyland on Saturday night, looked a bit different than the studio originally planned, as it became the first major Hollywood event to take place after SAG-AFTRA took the pickets.
Stars Tiffany Haddish, LaKeith Stanfield, Danny DeVito, Rosario Dawson, Chase W. Dillon, Daniel Levy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hasan Minhaj, Marilu Henner, Lindsay Lamb, director Justin Simien, producers Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich, producers Executives Nick Reynolds and Tom Peitzman and composer Kris Bowers were initially scheduled to walk the red carpet, in front of the theme park’s Haunted Mansion attraction. But when the actors’ strike was called on Thursday, the stars were no longer able to attend the event. The strike guidelines ban not only on-camera work but also promotional activity, including premieres, interviews, festivals, FYC events, award shows and podcasts.
While several studios and broadcasters have chosen to cancel their upcoming events, notably the oppenheimer red carpet in New York scheduled for Monday: Disney moved forward with the premiere, leaning on its theme park characters in the absence of the actors.
Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Maleficent, snow White‘s Evil Queen and Cruella posed for photos with fans during the two-hour red carpet, while influencers and other guests also gained private access to ride the Haunted Mansion attraction. The producers, as well as Simien, arrived about halfway through the event and stopped to take group photos before the director spoke briefly to the press.
“I feel very ambivalent about it, but at the same time, I’m very proud of this cast and I’m very, very proud of Katie Dippold, who wrote the script, and a lot of why I did this was to honor her words and to honor her work,” Simien said. the hollywood reporter in the rug. “If they can’t be here to speak for it, I felt like I had to be here to speak for it. It’s sad that they’re not here, at the same time, I totally support the reason they’re not here. And I’m happy to be the one to ring the bell for him.” He also noted that he views the AI issues arising in the SAG-AFTRA negotiations as “a very important thing to nail down and resolve.”
SAG-AFTRA announced the work stoppage after negotiations with the Alliance of Film and Television Producers failed on Wednesday night.
The group representing studios and streamers said it had “unveiled an agreement that offered historic salary and residual increases, substantially higher caps on pension and healthcare contributions, hearing protections, shorter series option periods and an innovative proposition.” of artificial intelligence that protects the digital images of the actors”. SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher called the offer “insulting and disrespectful of our massive contributions to this industry,” criticizing “how they claim poverty when they give hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEOs.” It’s disgusting. I am ashamed of them. They are on the wrong side of history at this very moment.”
