There is tons of “ink” (digital, too) on the WGA strike against studios and networks. This overview, published on p. 1 of today’s LA Times, seems to include good reporting and a useful timeline.
Living-room meetings cut through animosity in writers walkout.
By Richard Verrier and Claudia Eller, Los Angeles Times
Studio executives and leaders [...]
Tags: WGA · web series
Strike rewrites the TV biz - The Hollywood Reporter
Development process may never be same
The 2007-08 writers strike has lasted half as long as the walkout of 1988, but its short-term and long-term effects on the television business could be more profound and longer-lasting.
“It has been very detrimental to the scripted television business,” one studio chief [...]
Tags: studios · television
This is the first of what will likely be much news as the writers strike moves into a new phase:
From Variety
Talks between WGA leaders and top studio execs on Friday and Saturday have been productive enough to generate cautious optimism that a settlement to the three-month-old strike may soon be at hand.
WGA negotiating committee head [...]
Tags: WGA
LA Times
Few online entertainment ventures today make money. Yet that has not deterred striking Hollywood writers, eager to bypass the studio system, from forming start-ups to distribute their work on the Web.
At least three start-ups, each with a different business approach, are unveiling their corporate monikers and the names of their founders as they [...]
Tags: WGA · broadband · content · digital filmmaking · distribution · television
LA Times reports a domain name saga which will bring a smile to anyone in the internet world, and heartburn to some others
When the Hollywood studios say they don’t know enough about the Internet to pay writers what they seek for the streaming and downloading of their shows, they might not be kidding.
That was made [...]
Director George Hickenlooper (”Factory Girl”) has produced and the WGA has posted a series of videos under the title “Speechless without Writers”, posted on a WGA blog that also includes info on the strike, lotsa links, etc. You can see it all here.
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Screenwriters to Resume Talks — Wall St. Journal online
In the first ray of hope since Hollywood screenwriters began a strike two weeks ago, the Writers Guild of America and their movie and TV studio counterparts said they would resume negotiations on Nov. 26.
The guild’s 12,000 screenwriters walked off the job on Nov. 5 after last-minute [...]
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