Writers are seeking a package of compensation increases valued at nearly $600 million. That includes increases in minimum pay and higher residual payments from streaming, along with increased contributions to the union’s health and pension plans.
Writers argue that despite the streaming boom, their median pay has fallen in the last decade, citing a WGA report.
Complicating matters is that major studios such as Walt Disney Co., Warner Bros. Discovery and Netflix are facing their own economic pressures to slash costs in the face of rising debt levels, a reassessment of the streaming business and a possible recession.
That's a shame.
Will anyone notice? Hollywood has about five plot lines that they repeat over and over. Right now they are taking old movies and remaking them with GIBLET characters thus totally destroying the brand of the original movie.
Who cares if the writer’s go on strike? ChatGPT can write the screen scripts.
Does any group in Hollywood have less power than the writers? Janitors are higher up on the food chain.
NINE THOUSAND screenwriters and all they produce is woke....(ah)....junk?
Already paid too much IMHO.
81,000,000 of the 9,000 writers voted to strike.
Please do. Last time it destroyed weekly sitcoms and reality TV replaced them. Our glorious actors now do TV commercials.
I expect it will mirror public unions where the union negotiates to protect senior members at the expense of new entrants, meaning more of the same stale wokism.
The last strike brought us “Reality shows” galore what ever can they come up with now? Re-runs galore, oh wait they are doing that now. They have run out of ways to insert f-bombs into conversations maybe they can come up with some other way to insult their audience that can lose the industry even more money. They at one time sought to entertain their audience now they seek to indoctrinate us and I see no chance of them changing.