Chief Executive Officer and Warner Bros. President David Zaslav’s Discovery was greeted with cheers and angry cheers by Boston University students. According to this THRThe media executive took the stage to give a speech to the graduates.
According to the source, the students’ negative reaction to Zaslav was caused by the screenwriters’ strike that began last spring.
“We don’t want you here”, “Pay your authors” and “Shut up Zaslav,” shouted people from the crowd.
Zaslav was booed even more when he joked about giving life advice to students. WBD’s manager had to stop speaking repeatedly until the waves of shouting subsided temporarily.
On May 2, screenwriters went on strike in the USA. They were unable to negotiate with the movie studios to improve the terms of the employment contract. The screenwriters demand that they consider the need for rework against the background of the growing demand for scripts for streaming services.
Previously pull Blade, played by Mahershala Ali, was put on hold amid protests from the writers. The strike also affected the making of The Lord of the Rings, the final season of Stranger Things, the prequel to Game of Thrones, the second season of The Last of Us, and other projects.
Source: Gazeta
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