Guild Board Ejects Video Games Deal

June 22, 2005

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The board of the Screen Actors Guild overruled its membership and rejected a recently approved contract. Hollywood voice actors have been an increasing presence in video games. The video game industry earns about as much as the film studios do, $10 billion USD annually. Their big titles have multi-million dollar budgets, and publicity for the biggest titles matches that for summer blockbusters. But the game companies, while valuing the contributions of Hollywood voice talent, don't value it enough to agree to contract terms that include two factions Some contracts for movies destined for a video game tie-in require its actors to provide voice talent to the game. While they will see a pay raise, they won't see those coveted residuals in this contract. David Utter is a staff writer for murdok covering technology and business. Email him

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