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By the standards of Wes Anderson's career at that point, 2004's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou was a massive undertaking.

The new, tentative three-year film and TV deal agreed upon between the studios and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), the union representing below-the-line entertainment workers, still has to be ratified by union members.

A threatened strike on major TV and film production was averted Saturday night, just hours before a midnight deadline.

Work on TV and film sets might come to a standstill as soon as Monday if 60,000 crew members working nationwide go on strike.

In Midnight Mass, the arrival of a new priest upends the small, isolated fishing community of Crockett Island. It’s an original idea from writer/director Mike Flanagan, who made his name in the horror genre adapting Shirley Jackson, Henry James and multiple Stephen King opuses.

One day after IATSE announced a tentative strike date of Oct. 18 against film and television studios, the union is offering members guidance on who would and wouldn’t be on strike, whether striking members can collect unemployment and if they risk losing their health care in the event of a work stoppage.

IATSE isn’t working alone when it comes to pressing for better labor conditions.

Unless an agreement is reached with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers in the coming days, 60,000 IATSE film and TV workers will go on strike on Monday, Oct. 18, at 12:01 a.m. PDT.

Hollywood is starting to brace for a strike that would essentially shut down the entire industry on Monday morning.

When the industry came together last fall on a hard-fought agreement among multiple unions and the major studios on COVID safety protocols for production, some executives were wary of the precedent set by new limits on working hours.