落实的好消息, Striking Hollywood writers are going back to work(详见6楼)
If reruns of your favorite television shows and the flood of reality programming crowding the airwaves is giving your DVR too much time off, you might want to dust off that record button, as an end to the Hollywood Writer's strike could be near.The Writers Guild and studios reportedly had a major break through over the weekend, which is creating optimism among Hollywood insiders affected by the strike, Variety reports.
"It's not a done deal, by any means," said a source tells Variety. "But Friday was a good day."
There have no details about what the WGA and studios have made progress on or when the strike will actually end, but according to Variety, the potential deal is said to be similar to the deal the Directors Guild reached with the studios.
If a deal between the WGA and the studios is reached soon, the Academy Awards could go on with all the nominated stars and celebrity presenters in attendance, red carpet hits & misses and long-winded weepy acceptance speeches included.
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[[i] 本帖最后由 Ilan 于 2008-2-13 17:33 编辑 [/i]] 没人回...不过还是更新一下吧.:funk: 编剧工会和资方的谈判据说即将完成, 快签新合约了.
The 3-month Hollywood writers strike could enter its final chapter Saturday when guild members gather in Los Angeles and New York to consider a proposed contract.
If writers respond favorably, the walkout that devastated the entertainment industry could end as soon as Monday.
Writers were wavering between hope and skepticism as they prepared to learn details of the deal for the first time.
"The feeling is relief and optimism and excitement," said Hilary Winston, a writer for the NBC sitcom "My Name Is Earl."
Still, she couldn't shake her lingering anxiety.
"I hope this deal made this three months worth it," she said.
Writer Erik Oleson, who watched a deal for a TV pilot fall apart during the strike, was reserving judgment.
"I'm not going to drink the Kool-Aid and accept a bad deal. I'd rather continue the strike," Oleson said. "We saw a press release but what matters is the fine print."
If members show strong support for the deal, the union could quickly lift its strike order, allowing dozens of TV shows to return to production and putting thousands of actors, crew members and others back to work.
An end to the strike might also salvage the Feb. 24 Academy Awards show, which is now facing a possible boycott by writers and sympathetic actors. The writers union has given a picket-free pass to Sunday's Grammy Awards.
The Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents studios, have not publicly commented on the proposed contract because of a joint media blackout.
Michael Eisner, a former Walt Disney Co. chief executive, told CNBC the proposed deal was good enough to end the strike.
"It's impossible the writers will turn it down," said Eisner, whose successor at Disney, Robert Iger, was among the studio chiefs who helped shape the proposal with leaders of the writers guild.
The most contentious issue in the talks was residual payments for TV programs and movies distributed on the Internet.
"Within the next five years, most American televisions will be connected to the Internet. The shows and movies you watch on your TV will be downloaded or streamed," the union said in its strike fact sheet.
Some accounts suggest the proposed deal involving the 12,000-member union and the world's largest media companies improves on a contract agreement reached last month by studios and the Directors Guild of America.
Directors won several key concessions on new media, including payments for downloaded TV programs and movies based on a percentage of the distributor's gross.
The writers guild, however, has been seeking 2.5 percent of distributor grosses from Internet-delivered projects — about three times what the directors guild got in its deal.
Writers also balked at the maximum $1,200 flat fee that studios agreed to pay directors for streamed, ad-supported programs.
Writers won't vote Saturday on the proposed contract but will have a chance to voice their support or opposition at the closed meetings.
An e-mail circulated by a strike captain urged pro-deal members to attend so union leaders wouldn't hear only from opponents.
Other e-mails to guild members said a favorable response by writers would be followed by a Sunday meeting of the guild negotiating committee to consider lifting the strike order and scheduling a formal membership vote by mail.
"I hope Monday is when this town gets going again," Winston said. "If it's not Monday, I'll take Wednesday."
Warren Leight, an executive producer in New York for NBC's "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," doesn't think writers will be swayed by high-profile colleagues who have trumpeted the directors deal as a solid template for writers.
"If the deal works, everyone is ready to go back to work. But it has to be discussed by 10,000 people, not by 30 show runners and wannabe A-listers," Leight said.
Among the show runners — industry slang for executive producers in charge of a series — who lauded the directors deal was John Wells, whose credits include "ER" and "The West Wing." He termed it, "Very good. For writers, for directors, for the future."
A quick end to the walkout might result in TV viewers seeing a more new episodes of their favorite shows this season.
A script takes about three weeks to write and about 40 working days to produce, so it could take as long as two months for the first new shows to air, Leight said.
But once a production has scripts and is up and running, episodes are worked on concurrently and an hour-long show can be produced within eight days, he said.
That could allow an hourlong drama to return with perhaps a half-dozen new episodes, and a half-hour comedy to squeeze in as many as seven new shows for the rest of the season.
Networks, however, are likely to pick and choose among shows, with low-rated newcomers less likely to get deals for more episodes than a series like "Grey's Anatomy," which has a big, faithful audience.
:grin2: 为什么不多罢一阵嘛，WGA真没骨气 [quote]原帖由 [i]deltadawn007[/i] 于 2008-2-10 08:18 发表 [url=http://www.friends6.com/forum/redirect.php?goto=findpost&pid=1156354&ptid=72394][img]http://www.friends6.com/forum/images/common/back.gif[/img][/url]
为什么不多罢一阵嘛，WGA真没骨气 [/quote]
很是汗~~~
但是也有道理呐。。。好多剧都来不及追了
已经停止了！！！！
[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7242139.stm[/url]US film and television writers have voted to end a three-month long strike and return to work on Wednesday.
The back-to-work order was approved by 92.5% of the 3,775 Writers Guild of America (WGA) members, after a deal was struck by union leaders at the weekend.
Industrial action was sparked by a dispute over additional pay for work used on DVD or over the internet.
The strike has crippled TV and film production and led to the cancellation of the Golden Globe awards ceremony.
"The strike is over. Our members have voted. Writers can go back to work," said WGA spokesman Patric Verrone, following the ballots held in New York and Los Angeles.
Union leaders agreed a deal on Sunday that gives writers a share of the increasing revenue from programmes offered over the internet and other new media.
"At the end of the day, everybody won. It was a fair deal... and it recognises the large contribution that writers have made to the industry," said the chief executive officer of CBS Corp, Leslie Moonves.
The deal should guarantee the Academy Awards ceremony will take place as planned on 24 February. 的确是复工了...:laughing:
[color=Red]Striking Hollywood writers are going back to work. [/color]
The Writers Guild of America said its members voted Tuesday to end their devastating, three-month strike that brought the entertainment industry to a standstill.
Writers will go back to work Wednesday after voting in Beverly Hills and New York.
"At the end of the day, everybody won. It was a fair deal and one that the companies can live with, and it recognizes the large contribution that writers have made to the industry," said Leslie Moonves, chief executive officer of CBS Corp.
Moonves was among the media executives who helped broker a deal after talks between the guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers collapsed in acrimony.
One winner in the vote was the Academy Awards, which can now be staged Feb. 24 without the threat of pickets or a boycott by actors that would have dulled the glamour of Hollywood's signature celebration.
The strike's end would allow many hit series to return this spring for what's left of the current season, airing anywhere from four to seven new episodes. Shows with marginal audience numbers may not return until fall or could be canceled.
"It will be all hands on deck for the writing staff," said Chris Mundy, co-executive producer of CBS' drama "Criminal Minds." He hopes to get a couple of scripts in the pipeline right away, with about seven episodes airing by the end of May.
The combined New York-Beverly Hills count was overwhelmingly in favor of ending the strike: 3,492 voted yes, with only 283 voting to stay off the job.
Writers did not vote on whether to formally accept the tentative contract that already has won approval from the union's board of directors.
The guild will mail contract ratification ballots to members over the next few days. Writers can also vote at meetings. All ballots must be cast by Feb. 25.
The union's board approved a deal Sunday giving writers a share of the growing revenue from programs offered on the internet and other new media.
Guild leaders say they were fighting for a piece of the future, reflecting the widespread belief that Internet-delivered entertainment fare would inevitably claim an increasing and perhaps even dominant market share.
The walkout stopped work on dozens of TV shows, disrupted movie production, and turned the usually star-studded Golden Globes show into a news conference.
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因为编剧家里也没有余粮了。。。。 太好了，终于停止了页:
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