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Why the Hollywood Strike Will Serve Entrepreneurs and Creators the Most
Picture the scene: Hollywood Boulevard, its star-studded sidewalks unusually quiet, movie studios locked up, and the characteristic clamor of creative energy seemingly on pause. The scribes, the thespians, the jesters of Tinseltown have gone on strike. A silence permeates the landscape. But is this silence an end or a beginning? I posit, it’s the latter. An opportunity. And not just any opportunity, but one bursting at the seams with potential for the innovative, the aspirational, the entrepreneurial.
As your maestro for this discourse, let me borrow some wisdom from the world of Hip Hop — I’ll spit it just as Jay-Z did in ‘Can’t Knock The Hustle’, “From the streets to the blacktop, the world is mine”. This is the rallying cry of today’s creators, the digital-age dreamers unafraid of charting their own course, emboldened by the ongoing Hollywood labor unrest.
As reruns populate our television screens and streaming service content pipelines show signs of drying up, the audience’s thirst for fresh creative works intensifies. In the realm of Netflix and Prime originals, the impact of this strike is visible, but remember, SAG writers and SAG actors are only a piece of the vibrant mosaic that is the global creative community.
