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On the looking up side the WGA and AMPTP are slated to resume negotiations on the Monday after Thanksgiving.
On the depressing side, Universal and Sony have started suspending actors. At Universal the casts of The Office, 30 Rock, Bionic Woman and Battlestar Galactica have all received suspension letters. These letters are sort of a way to hold the talent hostage meaning they are suspended without pay but they are still under contract with their shows and cannot look for work. Agents of the cast of Battlestar believe that Uni has violated the SAG contract and that the actors are no longer contractually tied to the show and don't have to return. If you're interested in details try Nikki Finke's blog at: http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/gulp-force-majeure-letters-in-the-mail/
The WGA has come up with a way for you to annoy the studios if you're so inclined. You can pay a buck and send unsharpened pencils as a sign of protest to the studios at: http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/
i can only hope the situation is resloved soon.... tv is about to take a turn for the worst. as if we dont have enough reality tv already.... (though i admit to being guilty of watching Survivor and Kid Nation...)
i can only hope the situation is resloved soon.... tv is about to take a turn for the worst. as if we dont have enough reality tv already.... (though i admit to being guilty of watching Survivor and Kid Nation...)
Now is a good time to visit the local video store and rent some classic movies. See what movies were like before special effects took priority over story and characterization.
Saw this from one of the writers of the Colbert report. And you can tell. Very funny stuff!
I like how a lot of writers are starting to vlog on youtube from the picket lines or contribute with material in some way. It's like they can't not write. I love it.
By the way about this discussion, I started a strike against myself a few days ago. Why? Because I’m an idiot (okay, okay, don’t say I’m). I started a strike because I decided to take all my time dealing unique and exclusive dealing for the good of my book. The screenwriter into myself got piss off about this behavior from the novelist I’m get transformed. So I don’t know when I’ll stop the strike - calling the screenwriter. While all this shit continues I – the novelist – continues to work for the success of “The Suicide”, the book.
By the way about this discussion, I started a strike against myself a few days ago. Why? Because I’m an idiot (okay, okay, don’t say I’m). I started a strike because I decided to take all my time dealing unique and exclusive dealing for the good of my book. The screenwriter into myself got piss off about this behavior from the novelist I’m get transformed. So I don’t know when I’ll stop the strike - calling the screenwriter. While all this shit continues I – the novelist – continues to work for the success of “The Suicide”, the book.
It is a truly fuck conflict, dudes!
To show solidarity, Helio, I want to strike you, too.
Since there are so many horror writers on this site I thought I'd post this link. The WGA is willing to pretty much do anything to get some press attention so Tuesday a group of horror writers staged an exorcism outside of Warner's.
In light of the sad news about Heath Ledger, this doesn't seem as important as it did when I found it, and I don't know if this potentially good news has been posted elsewhere, and it's not certain, AND I copied and pasted this from imdb so I don't know exactly which blogs the info is lifted from -- *stops to breathe*-- But thought I'd shared it now that I've stumbled upon it (it hasn't been mentioned in this thread yet anyway):
"ER" exec producer John Wells told Daily Variety he's very impressed by the deal, and says the template provided by it could produce an end to the writers' strike within two weeks.
"This is a genuinely landmark deal," Wells said Friday. "I've been involved in negotiations for 20 years. This is the best deal I've seen that anyone's been able to negotiate."
Informal talks among groups of scribes have been going on since the DGA deal was announced Thursday, and are expected to continue over the Martin Luther King holiday weekend.
It's also believed backchannel conversations between key WGA members and CEOs and top execs from the AMPTP companies have already begun, possibly paving the way for a formal resumption of negotiations.
Wells said scribes should be happy about the gains made by directors. "This was the deal everyone was hoping for, plus a little more," he said.
He made it clear the WGA strike was a key factor in the helmers' gains.
"The DGA took all the leverage the writers gave them and negotiated a hell of deal," he said. "I didn't think we'd be anywhere close to this."
Wells cautioned that are still important issues that need to be resolved on matters that weren't addressed by the directors.
There's the thorny matter of "separated rights," for instance. Scribes are looking to figure out how they get credited and paid when work they do on a webisode of a show such as "The Office" or "Lost" is later turned into a movie or book.
Still, assuming the WGA and AMPTP begin formal talks quickly, Wells thinks scribes could be pounding their keyboards before Valentine's Day.
"This deal should be done in two weeks," he said.
Meanwhile, Wells underlined his embrace of the DGA deal in a letter to a colleague that's been widely circulated around the Net.
In that missive, DGA also noted what he called an "underreported" section of the deal that he found particularly vital. Helmers were able to get the studios to agree to open up their books to let the WGA look at the details of their new-media deals and contracts.
"This has never happened before," Wells wrote. "It will allow the DGA to analyze whether the terms of this new deal are working and if the revenues are being properly reported. This is another extraordinary aspect of this deal and a cause for celebration."
"Are you saying I'm crazy!?" "Oh no, but I'm certainly thinking it loudly"
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