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Hollywood’s Offshoring Blame Game

Sony Pictures’ C.E.O. blamed union contracts for a shift in film and TV production out of the U.S. Now the head of SAG-AFTRA responds: “A cynical attempt to manipulate workers while masking the industry’s own business failures.”

Tony Vinciquerra
“We tried to talk to the unions about what we thought would happen, and now it is happening,” said outgoing Sony Pictures C.E.O. Tony Vinciquerra. Photo: David Becker/Getty Images
Matthew Belloni
October 22, 2024

Did you see Tony Vinciquerra’s comments this past weekend? The outgoing Sony Pictures C.E.O. blamed the wage increases won by Hollywood unions after last year’s strikes for the exit of many film and television shoots from America to cheaper locations. “The contract terms are forcing productions out of the U.S. now,” Vinciquerra said at the MIPCOM television conference in Cannes. “We tried to talk to the unions about what we thought would happen, and now it is happening.”