Movie News: Writers near a deal.
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No contract yet, but the writers and the studio big-wigs are getting close. Saturday evening broad strokes were made toward an agreement, following two weeks of what I’m sure where arduous negotiations with Disney’s president Roger Iger, News Corp.’s COO Peter Chernin and the other top media execs. On Sunday, WGAG president Patric Verrone and WGAE president Michael Winship issued a joint statement to members, warning that more work is needed to be done in order to secure an actual tentative agreement.
I know, I know, it’s still a little ways from being done, but this is a giant step in the right direction and we may have an agreement as early as Thursday of this week. Thank goodness, ‘cause if I have to see an ad for one more mindless, degrading reality show, I may just watch one, and that would mean the studios have won.
I agree with the writers, they should receive royalties from the numerous media portals that are now available to most people in the Western World. As it stands now the money grubbing studios receive all that extra revenue. That extra revenue totals up to be well over a Billion dollars, that’s right, Billion, with a “B.” Not saying the writers are completely innocent, there have been many negotiating blunders on their part as well. This entire ugly affair could have ended much earlier.
Come studios give the writers what they want after all, they are the mothers and fathers of our modern day “Cave.”
