Startling news just in! Startling in that it hasn’t been reported until today!
It seems that way before the Great WGA Strike of 2007, there was a problem regarding screenwriting credits between George Clooney and the Writer’s Guild of America. Clooney, who’s upcoming movie Leatherheads was based on a 17-year-old script he came across, rewrote the […]
Posted on April 4th, 2008 by Enrique
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This is related to my previous post on studios getting sued.
Now that the WGA is officially back behind their desks (it wasn’t officially until last night), NBC and the Hollywood Foreign Press may be eyeballing a lawsuit against them. According to Nikki Finke, the two are bitter about the writer’s strike having forced the Golden […]
Posted on February 13th, 2008 by Enrique
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Now that the strike is (unofficially) over, Hollywood can finally move on and get to work… business as usual. Right?
Not quite.
This week alone, Hollywood studios have been slapped with THREE humongous lawsuits (more like 2 big ones and one mediocre, but publicity-worthy).
First up is New Line Cinema, which has barely settled their lawsuit with director […]
Posted on February 12th, 2008 by Enrique
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All signs lead to yes.
Posted on February 3rd, 2008 by Enrique
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Source: Deadline Hollywood Daily
I was surprised this morning to discover that the Writer’s Guild struck a deal with United Artists (the studio headed by Tom Cruise and his producing partner Paula Wagner) that will allow the studio to develop screenplays during the writer’s strike.
This is all part of the WGA’s new “divide and conquer” strategy […]
Posted on January 5th, 2008 by Enrique
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(btw, this verifies my previous guess that workers on strike cannot be fired…)
Today the Los Angeles Times posted an email from a key grip… sorry, EX-key grip of NBC’s The Office.
“Our show was shut down and we were all laid off this week. I’ve been watching the news since the WGA strike was announced and […]
Posted on November 10th, 2007 by Enrique
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(yes, I know it’s called “The Tonight Show”… but c’mon, no one ever calls it that)
Interesting bit of news from the only source I need to keep me up on the WGA strike, DeadlineHollywoodDaily It seems that NBC is firing the “non-writing” staff on the show (unless I’m mistaken you can’t fire someone who’s […]
Posted on November 9th, 2007 by Enrique
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Nikki Finke (journalist for LA Weekly) has her own website over at DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com and she’s updating daily posts like once an hour with the latest inside info from both sides of the WGA picket line. Not all of it is verified, but good reading nonetheless.
Posted on November 6th, 2007 by Enrique
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… do you know where YOUR writer is?
Posted on November 5th, 2007 by Enrique
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The WGA contract expired at midnight. The strike doesn’t start until tomorrow or Monday, but there’s already been one casualty: one of the major agencies is withholding a week’s worth of pay to ALL their employees in order to have more “financial flexibility.”
(Update: rumors are indicating the agency cutting pay is ICM, a truly major […]
Posted on November 1st, 2007 by Enrique
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