AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

Come on, writers, script your futures
The Big Picture: As the writers strike enters its third week, I think the future belongs to a tantalizing new hyphenate: the writer-entrepreneur.
Hollywood is a town awash in hyphenates. TV is loaded with writer-producers. The movie biz is full of writer-directors. There’s even a legion of actor-filmmakers like Clint Eastwood [...]

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What’s making writers and studios so nervous - The Los Angeles Times
The union says it won’t be shortchanged on new media as it was with DVDs. But no one’s sure of future dollars.
Damon Lindelof got a sobering glimpse of his future as a television writer two years ago as he strolled through the Grove shopping [...]

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