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'Haunted Mansion,' a premiere without stars as strike bites

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Agence France Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Props from the movie are displayed on the red carpet at the world premiere of Disney" s="" at="" the="" Hyperion="" Theatre="" inside="" Disney="" California="" Adventure="" Park="" in="" on="" July="" Michael="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/overseas/07/17/haunted-mansion.jpg"/><figcaption>Props from the movie are displayed on the red carpet at the world premiere of Disney&#x27;s &quot;Haunted Mansion&quot; at the Hyperion Theatre inside the Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim, California, on July 15, 2023. Michael Tran, AFP</figcaption></figure></div>LOS ANGELES, United States - The first major world premiere since Hollywood actors went on strike featured no stars -- and a mournful director who said he backed the walkout but missed his cast &quot;terribly.&quot;The &quot;Haunted Mansion&quot; premiere at Disneyland in California on Saturday evening was scaled back after actors took to picket lines and movie and television production ground to a halt in the most serious Hollywood strike in decades.Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) members have joined writers who have been on strike for weeks, triggering the first industry-wide walkout for 63 years.&quot;I&#x27;m a director and a writer and an artist in this industry. And it&#x27;s really, really hard,&quot; Justin Simien, director of &quot;Haunted Mansion,&quot; told AFP at the premiere.&quot;I absolutely support them (the actors). And I&#x27;m part of the fight myself.&quot;Disney still laid on a red carpet at the theme park&#x27;s Haunted Mansion ride, but none of the movie&#x27;s stars were in attendance, including LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Danny DeVito and Jamie Lee Curtis, who has been active in the strike organization.&quot;I miss them terribly,&quot; Simien said. &quot;I wish I could celebrate with them here.&quot;Actors formally went on strike at midnight Thursday after negotiations to reach a new deal with production studios ended without an agreement.The union&#x27;s demands have focused on dwindling pay in the streaming era, and the threat posed by artificial intelligence.The &quot;double strike&quot; has essentially shut down all US productions, with limited exceptions such as reality and game shows.

The first major world premiere since Hollywood actors went on strike featured no stars -- and a mournful director who said he backed the walkout but missed his cast 'terribly.'