Posted on 04/14/2019 12:19:41 AM PDT by Jyotishi
That literally is as sophisticated as their thinking gets.
The Writers Guild of America says it has instructed its 13,000 members to fire their talent agents at midnight on Saturday, unless their agents sign a new “Code of Conduct” agreement that promises they will do away with packaging fees and their stakes in production companies.
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The “Writers Guild” - now THERE’S a friggin’ joke.
All those drug-snorting, Hollywood homos know how to do is to go through a list somewhere and find the latest comic book that HASN’T been made into a movie (or which one hasn’t been remade recently) or what classic they can re-make with an all black / gay / transgender cast.
Maybe their agents should fire THEM and find some REAL writers somewhere.
“Talent agencies like WME, CAA and UTA have been investing heavily in production arms that writers think unfairly pit their interests against the writers they represent.”
This actually got Ronald Reagan called in as a witness in a federal case when he had been head of SAG: he was starring in “General Electric Theater” and as such was (after his first contract) receiving a small share of ownership in GE. He claimed it was insignificant (as a share of all his finances, it was), but technically it was a conflict of interest.
At the time, he had been negotiating a new deal between SAG and the studios over “residuals” in the new medium of television. This negotiation would eventually lead to the contract in the 1960 where the studios gave in on some television and put $2b into a retirement fund for actors. Most thought this was the best deal anyone could get, but Mickey Rooney opposed it bitterly, saying of Reagan, “All he got us was a home to die in.” But the deal passed a vote of the membership overwhelmingly.
There was also some debate over Reagan’s role in negotiating the deal, with some saying the key moment came when a divided leadership looked to actor Walter Pigeon, who weighed in.
At any rate, this battle of agents having stock in companies goes back to the very first MCA deal Reagan negotiated.
These Hollywood people are going to flee East to mommy an daddy so fast.They have no skills and limited education.They will drag their kids pets and politics with them. Summer communities will transform overnight to year round communities filled with unemployed people from California.Mommy and Daddy will no longer have 2nd and 3rd homes to enjoy this summer.
Unions - protecting the value of incumbency, restricting for the incumbents who can and cannot be a participant, putting protection of incumbents above change. What “Hollywood” needs is for the major studios, production companies and talent agencies to move their operations to a right to work state.
We could over the course of a few weeks “nationalize” them, move them, give them new boards and officers and then put them back on the free market. /sarc
Based on what I’m seeing on TV and in the movies, there’s only about five writers left in Hollywood...
The last time writers stopped writing they created Reality TV ,LOL
Cage match - “There can be only one!”
Yeah! Tell me why I should care.
Wrexit!
“The Writers Guild of America says it has instructed its 13,000 members to fire their talent agents at midnight on Saturday, unless their agents sign a new “Code of Conduct” agreement that promises they will do away with packaging fees and their stakes in production companies.”
yeah, i’m sure that’s going to happen ... 13,000 breach of contract lawsuits by the agencies ...
btw, aren’t the writers smart enough to sign with agents that DON’T have such conflicts of interest without being “ordered” to?
i imagine this whole thing is about propping up the 12,900 hack writers, because the 100 actually GOOD writers should be able to write their own tickets ...
Why won’t the ‘liberals’ share the money with each other?
Why are there any unions at all in hollywood?....
The cesspools never change odor always the same product.
Rats fighting in the dumpster.
While it’s on fire.
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