Some Screen Actors Guild members, mostly members of the Membership First faction, are calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate alleged antitrust practices of the entertainment conglomerates, Daily Variety reports. “We are drawing attention to the fact that the handful of vertically integrated corporations who finance, distribute and exhibit motion picture and video productions have gained unchecked control over the entertainment industry,” SAG member Scott Wilson tells Variety. Spokesmen for SAG and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers didn’t comment, the trade paper says.
—Aimee Picchi