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21 Dec 2007, 5:05 pm
If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence.Joint Statement, Dec. 20, 2007, explaining that the two will recommence production of The Colbert Report and The Daily Show despite the ongoing strike of the Writers Guild of America. [read post]
21 Dec 2007, 7:53 am
So let me play dumb with the recent news coverage of the Hollywood writers strike, because all of the coverage I'm seeing assumes that everyone knows how entertainment contracts and labor law work.With whom does the Writers Guild of America negotiate? [read post]
20 Dec 2007, 10:23 am
Their scenario is that massive numbers of primarily high-earning writers and actors - screen writers, television show runners, movie stars and celebs - go financial core, weakening the guilds beyond recognition. [read post]
19 Dec 2007, 4:11 pm
NBC is planning to run shows produced overseas, written by non-WGA writers, reports the Wall Street Journal. [read post]
18 Dec 2007, 10:31 am
The Writers Guild of America has filed a complaint with the NLRB over the alleged bargaining behavior of the AMPTP. [read post]
18 Dec 2007, 2:12 am
The directors guild (DGA) and writers guild (WGA) are meeting soon to discuss new media. [read post]
18 Dec 2007, 12:14 am
Secondly, any waiver now, absent meaningful negotiations and in the face of mounting holiday debts for WGA members, may erode the widespread support of Guild members to the cause. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The LA Times ran a story that striking writers are in talks with venture capitalists to finance and launch Internet start-up companies. [read post]
18 Dec 2007, 12:14 am
Secondly, any waiver now, absent meaningful negotiations and in the face of mounting holiday debts for WGA members, may erode the widespread support of Guild members to the cause. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The LA Times ran a story that striking writers are in talks with venture capitalists to finance and launch Internet start-up companies. [read post]
17 Dec 2007, 11:49 am
The Guild should also step up the pressure to make writers less dependent on the studios in new media. [read post]
17 Dec 2007, 4:19 am
Doesn't that sort of make Marc Andreesen and Rob Long's point about the tenuous positon of both Hollywood and the Writers Guild? [read post]
15 Dec 2007, 3:02 pm
As Barry writes, the principal issue preventing a deal with the writers seems to be how to handle, and divide revenues from, new media such as cell phones and the internet. [read post]
13 Dec 2007, 7:20 pm
The Writers Guild of America demanded in a statement that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers return to the bargaining so the six-week strike can be ended and thousands of workers idled by the walkout can return to their jobs. [read post]
12 Dec 2007, 6:06 pm
When parties are white-anting each other outside the mediation room, things are in a downward, and probably for the moment fatal, spiral.Confidentiality went long ago, now it's who can win the public relations contest.Here the Writers Guild of America tells us how talks broke down in the writers strike mediation last Friday night in LA and here The Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers gives their version.On the one hand Young for WGA says;… [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 5:59 am
I suspect the guild is already in the process of setting up interim deals that would allow writers to work with companies not represented by the studios. [read post]
6 Dec 2007, 2:12 am
It's difficult to draw any generalized employment law lessons from the Don Imus case because his case is so unique, just as it is difficult to draw any lessons on collective bargaining from the Writers Guild strike. [read post]
5 Dec 2007, 10:41 am
Back to Tilly and the Documentary's "Reason Giving" Although the Writers Guild of America is apparently still winning the PR war with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, opinion can swifty shift as related businesses begin to feel the ill-effects of an entire industry at stand-still. [read post]
4 Dec 2007, 8:47 am
Dissatisfied with counterproposals, the Writers Guild apparently plans to propose a flexible royalty plan that would compensate writers based on the number of viewers who see their work via the new technology, rather than plans based on traditional percentages favored... [read post]
29 Nov 2007, 7:35 pm
The writers are back at the table for these reasons:(1) The Directors Guild of America (DGA) is Waiting in the Wings. [read post]
28 Nov 2007, 6:36 pm
If that someone is a Guild writer - seemingly unlikely, given how outspoken The Office's writers have been - is that writer violating the strike rules? [read post]
23 Nov 2007, 12:24 pm
I've been quoted and interviewed on the WGA strike several dozen times by local, national and international newspapers, magazines, television and radio, including CNBC, local television, KCRW, Variety, the LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Canadian TV (several 5 minute interviews, two of them live), BBC Radio. [read post]
