[Jyotishi]

The Big Picture: Looking forward to a new Hollywood in more ways than one.

[reg45]

So we won’t have a bunch of writers writing a pile of anti-Trump crap. Big win.

[aquila48]

For some reason, I’m having trouble working up any sympathy for either side.

[Fresh Wind]

Rats fighting in the dumpster.

[JohnnyP]

Just what question are they going to axe their agents?

[Secret Agent Man]

popcorn time

[Raycpa]

Stop and shop might be hiring.

[Nateman]

What is the point of a picket line when a scab can merely email in a script? Given the collectivist output of these writers , I suppose it's no surprise they act like collectivists as well. Give Mudero in Venezuela a call, I'm sure he could use some talented propagandists about now.

[EasySt]

Who needs Hollywood?

We have the US Security Forces and our own battle to fight
in the Human Social Communications Domain.

Here's a 4 Star Active Duty Army General with a message for us about that.

The Future of War and how it affects YOU Multi-Domain Operations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOTYgcdNrXE

Here's a link to just before the General starts talking:
https://youtu.be/qOTYgcdNrXE?t=647

Be sure to note Destin's comments at the end.

"Political Grace"
"Intentional Unity"

Here's another General. Same topic.

Michael Flynn, talking about a
civilian army of digital soldiers...
Citizen journalists...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=V2MgTd3LgB0

[yldstrk]

Let them destroy each other.

[Pravious]

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.

[LS]

“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.

[Wuli]

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

[Magnatron]

Based on what I’m seeing on TV and in the movies, there’s only about five writers left in Hollywood...

[butlerweave]

The last time writers stopped writing they created Reality TV ,LOL

[rockrr]

Cage match - “There can be only one!”

[Moltke]

stuck in a messy limbo

Wrexit!

[minnesota_bound]

Why won’t the ‘liberals’ share the money with each other?
Why are there any unions at all in hollywood?....

[Vaduz]

The cesspools never change odor always the same product.