Comments on: Roundup: Hollywood Writers Still on Strike (5th Week!)

By: mbhunter

mbhunter — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:46:12 +0000

Close, but the flavor of the college article was more: “If you want to go, you’re paying for it yourself,” not “You can’t go.”

By: her every cent counts

her every cent counts — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:15:52 +0000

I think the writers are in the “right.” They obviously deserve to be paid fairly for their work, and if the studios are going to go bonkers about people “stealing” their content online, then they ought to understand why the writers are so angry about it. The writers make these shows good.

By: Lord

Lord — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:14:49 +0000

The real difficulty is the fantasy accounting that goes on in the industry. Because of it, all contracts have to be based on gross revenues, so producers have to share revenues even if they have no real profit and that makes production riskier than it otherwise would be. They will just have to come to an accommodation on acceptable revenue sharing.

By: Traciatim

Traciatim — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:47:09 +0000

I say it’s the studios in th wrong here. People should be paid for money being made on their work, end of story.