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...billion a month in lost revenue. Even more alarming to the rest of the world, it could totally screw up next fall's TV season, and lots of less-than-perfect film scripts (yes, even less perfect than usual) have been rushed into production. This week the Writers Guild of America is due back at the bargaining table with producers, but there's a problem: studios used to be mom-and-pop shops, and avuncular mogul Lew Wasserman played peacemaker with unions. Today's studios are owned by conglomerates that can more easily withstand (and may even favor) a production...
...writers strike, will the actors go with them? Not necessarily. If the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, weary from a long strike against advertisers last year, reach new residual agreements with producers by the time their contracts expire on June 30, actors can still work on movies that are already written. SAG president William Daniels would support waivers for independent productions during a strike. Note to actors and writers: If your union is picketing, any work for a major U.S. studio (even overseas) would be scab labor...
...number one rule, explained leaders of the protest, was don't touch anyone. If police tried to remove them, they planned to resist until they were put under arrest. Lawyers from the National Lawyer Guild were standing by if police made arrests, and protestors carried lists of professors ready to post bail if necessary...
...been 50 years since Edmund H. North, then a young member of the Writers Guild of America (WGA), penned the screenplay for the alien invasion classic “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” The movie’s debut marked the beginning of an incredible career for North, who would go on to win Oscar honors for co-authorship of “Patton.” After his death in 1990, North’s activism on behalf of screenwriters was recognized with the ascription of his name to the Guild?...
...Hollywood in its grip? Nothing as campy as what science fiction can envision, to be sure. The latest tempest in Tinseltown (and no, it’s not J. Lo’s increasingly warped fashion sense) is that the contracts which the WGA and the Screen Actors Guild of America (SAG) have with the television and film industry (represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers) are set to expire on May 1 and June 30, respectively. These 14,000 WGA members and 135,000 SAG members constitute the brains and the brawn (so to speak...