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Guys:

The announcement that United Artists has cut a similar Letterman-like agreement with
the WGA is great to hear. If it serves as nothing more than precedent, it's still huge.
It's illustrating that more companies, separate from the hardline AMPTP are willing
to engage with the guild and do their own deals: Autonomy is a beautiful thing. Let's
hope that the U.A. deal represents the first of many. The mechanism is now in full
motion...and U.A. is now going to have dibs on everything that's been 'spec'd' over the
strike period. Trust me, you can't tell a writer not to write. All those great ideas
that they could never find a home for and never wanted to take a studio dollar to pen...this
is the stuff that is gonna get rolled out in this first round.

Bully to everybody at U.A. for breaking off and doing this deal. Let's hope more moves
like these bring this staredown/standoff to an abrupt close.

..and for my money, this most recent, shocking show-of-muscle from the WGA began
with that DGA letter from Apted and Cates...'cuz they've been in asskicking/nametaking
mode ever since.


JC
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  Posted by: J 01/06/2008 at 10:24 AM

I support the WGA and all the writers as this process moves forward, but one thing concerns me. Where are the little guys in this situation going to fall? What about all the first-time writers who want to break in.

If we sell a script, we are scabs. We write, we are scabs. In the meantime, some more established writers get to go back to work, which is great, but will they remember the little guy after the strike is over?

It is hard enough to break into this industry as it is, but now I have to sit on the sidelines. I was very close to getting one of my scripts up the ladder, but now my agent says that is all over. The studio exec who read my stuff, had to sit it down. Probably in the trash. We have to start from scratch when the strike is over. Was all my hard work for nothing?

I applaud the writers who are making it so future deals will not be lopsided towards the studios. I appreciate that. I just hope the a-listers and current writers will remember the sacrifices the unknowns have been doing as well.
  Posted by: Erin 01/06/2008 at 07:45 PM

Been reading Nikki Finke and it looks promising. Hope for all writers this ends soon.
What a pain...
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Go Writers!

JW
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