A filmmaker who sued Fox and Disney says the big offers stopped coming, a bad sign for anyone in Hollywood thinking about challenging a studio.

• Suing two of the largest studios ended the flow of bigger projects.
• The unwritten rule in the business is that you stay quiet even when you are cheated, and keep working.
• Breaking that rule gets a name quietly dropped from the list studios call.
• The freeze is expected to last until the people running those studios change.

Outlook: Studio power over who gets hired looks unchanged, so talent disputes will likely keep being settled privately rather than in court.