Secret A-lister meeting?
Deadline Hollywood Daily's Nikki Finke is reporting that "there's a secret meeting of some top screenwriters -- the really, really successful ones known as the A-listers -- coming up this weekend and their intention is to band together and make a powerful coalition that will force the WGA leadership to accept whatever deal the DGA makes with the AMPTP. Many of these big movie scribes are hyphenates who carry cards for both the writers guild and the directors guild."
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on January 2, 2008 at 3:03 PM
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Hopscotch
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Super successfull eh? Could be in DGA too.
Well. That means Steven Zaillian's got to be one. Aaron Sorkin, though not a director, probably one. David Mamet sure. Frank Darabont. Paul Haggis, could see that. Akiva Goldsman is (financially speaking of course) one of the most successfull screenwriters in the last decade. hard not to picture him there.
Posted by Hopscotch
at January 2, 2008 3:23 PM
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Craig Kennedy
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Thank you for the parenthetical qualification regarding Mr. Goldsman.
Posted by Craig Kennedy
at January 2, 2008 3:32 PM
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MASON
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Sadly, this ain't true.
Posted by MASON
at January 2, 2008 3:34 PM
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Hopscotch
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welcome.
Scott Frank, one of the highest paid script doctors and Paul Attonisio are probably also there.
Posted by Hopscotch
at January 2, 2008 3:53 PM
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Arran
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Well, it's a well known fact, Sonny Jim, that there's a secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world, known as The Pentavirate, who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meet tri-annually at a secret country mansion in Colorado, known as The Meadows.
Posted by Arran
at January 2, 2008 4:12 PM
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Lee
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Would it be as accurate to say they meet every four months?
Posted by Lee
at January 2, 2008 4:46 PM
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Amazing Larry
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Arran, nice ref to SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER. One of the 5 funniest movies of the '90s.
If Worldwide Pants can strike their own deal with the Writer's Guild, is there anything stopping other studios/production companies from doing the same? And doesn't Pants taking this action break the solidarity of the Producers? Or am I just a thickie?
Posted by Amazing Larry
at January 2, 2008 6:36 PM
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Arran
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I hate the Colonel with his wee beady eyes...
Thanks Larry, I wondered if anyone would get it. Or care.
Posted by Arran
at January 2, 2008 8:27 PM
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Sean
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Larry - it kind of breaks the solidarity, but not as much as you might think. Worldwide Pants is not part of the AMPTP, which represents something like 300 or 400 companies collectively. The Writers Guild is not actually striking against companies which aren't in the AMPTP, per se, but the AMPTP covers all of the major studios and production companies. Most of the minor ones are staying out of it because the AMPTP will set the baseline that the non-AMPTP members will follow. Worldwide Pants was in a unique position - the late-night shows were coming back, and the company was legally able to negotiate with the writers.
As I understand it, the WGA pushed to split the negotiation so that they didn't have to negotiate with the whole AMPTP collectively. Not sure what happened there, to be honest.
Posted by Sean
at January 3, 2008 12:30 PM