A solution in sight for WGA strike?
If a deal between the Director Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Televison Producers is indeed "imminent" -- a term used in a 1.15 story by Hollywood Reporter's Carl DiOrio, and perhaps referring to next week, which is when the next negotiating session is set to take place -- will the Writers Guild negotiators take this deal also, which will bring the strike to an end?
DiOrio wrote that "Hollywood has the collective sense that the DGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers (AMPTP) will quickly hammer out a new contract to replace the pact set to expire June 30."
Doesn't the Apple TV idea -- digitally providing movies straight to the tube via a high-speed internet connection -- open things up considerably? The whole world, I mean? DVD and Blu-Ray are now looking at the end of the road. In ten years or so (perhaps sooner) it'll all be digital downloads straight to your television. WGA and DGA members now receive penny-ante payments from the number of DVDs sold to retailers...right? Shouldn't everyone be looking at rates based on digital downloads on this or that film? Won't this be the basic commercial magilla sooner or later?
It'll all come down to how insultingly low a revenue percentage will the AMPTP offer the WGA. Probably something between 1% and 2%, I'm guessing. If the DGA takes something along these lines, the WGA will have to go with this also...no?
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on January 15, 2008 at 2:03 PM
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Insultingly low...?!
If the WGA got 2% of distributor's gross, they'd be doing cartwheels in the streets.
You wanna talk insultingly low -- right now writers get 1.8 percent of the "producer's gross", which is defined as 20 percent of the distributor's gross (ie, the real gross).
That's right -- writers (for DVDs) get 1.8% of 20%, i.e. 0.36%.
Yup -- less than one half of one percent of the real gross. One of the reasons that the AMPTP is refusing to even talk to the WGA is that the guild wants to talk about distributors gross, not this bs 20% producers gross.
If the WGA actually gets even 1% of the real gross -- what you consider the low side of insultingly low -- they'll be high-fiving each other up and down Wilshire Blvd.
Just sayin'...
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at January 15, 2008 2:54 PM
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