yimmajazzi asked:
I support the WGA 100% they are doing the right thing and they are only asking for their fair share of the profits for dvd and internet sales. I don’t think its too much to ask. The AMPTP needs to share their profits with the people who made them possible. Will this be the end of Hollywood as we know it?
I support the WGA 100% they are doing the right thing and they are only asking for their fair share of the profits for dvd and internet sales. I don’t think its too much to ask. The AMPTP needs to share their profits with the people who made them possible. Will this be the end of Hollywood as we know it?
WHO KNOWS AND WHO CARES
The writers Guild has announced plans for strike which if may last like the last one in 1988 for 22 weeks, the already weak Hollywood would fall and may change to an Asian center, where the Industry is booming!
Everyone needs their cake share and superficially it seems alright for the demand in share of DVD and Internet sales but who has the correct work out laced with legality to justify things this far for the writers demand?
Does the motion pictures association of America has the hold on the industry to hold a conference to resolve the issue amicably? Feel its better to have something in the right earnest to bring a accepted settlement.
If the WGA demands are genuine, they must get their due share and not to be let down!
Where is the money going to come from?. The younger generation just steal (movies, cd’s) the items off of the internet.
Show your support by spreading the truth about the situation:
A writer friend of mine sent this to me:
I wrote a movie (I am a WGA member) and received a whole 4 cents per copy sold. Yes, I am not joking! That is about what a writer gets on a DVD sale. 4 pennies! The people who press the DVD make ten times that. This is one of the main issues the WGA strike is about. Please spread this info around to people so they realize the writers are not being greedy. If the studio sells a DVD for 12.99/copy, where does all the money go? Shouldn’t there be some fair % sharing?
And about the greedy execs… It’s not like they get a bonus for screwing the writers. They just make more money for a company. The studios want the crappy DVD deal to be extended to new media (like i tunes). “How about NO!” Oh wait, that is a line from “Austin Powers,” which by the way made the studio about 2 billion dollars. What if a writer never wrote those words? Then where would all those studio expense accounts be?
I don’t know really. I support what they are after as it isn’t much that they are asking for after all, and they create the shows that I like. The actors get paid millions and the writers, who created the whole thing get next to nothing. I feel badly that I own dvds of my favourite shows and the writers got on 4 cents for their work. When I buy a box set for $30+ dollars the people who made it get only 4 cents?! How is that fair? I feel ripped off too! I just keep trying to spread the word here online. There doesn’t seem be much we can do as viewers, the producers don’t care about us, they just want money.
The WGA has some great videos on youtube that give more info. Look up wgaamerica. Spread the word, I guess that’s all we can do. Maybe write sponsors and pressure them with a boycott? Not really sure what to do to support them either.
It will last until the AMPTP gives in, or until Hollywood really does change, for the worse, forever.
As for showing our support? Please feel free to forward this:
Many of us have joined “Save our Show” efforts in the past. One technique that’s gotten press and attention is fans mailing a particular item, related to the show, to the appropriate network–bottles of Tabasco sauce for Roswell, or peanuts for Jericho.
Now is the time to save ALL our shows.
See, after three months of negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the Writers Guild of America has gone on strike. I’ve provided links beneath this note for anyone who wants to know more about the residuals and new media that have forced this action. Where this impacts us is that some of our favorite shows are already off the air, and others only have a handful of new episodes left before vanishing as well. If the AMPTP takes a hard line on this, they will replace scripted shows with second-rate reality television or game shows and, possibly, never look back.
Do we really want that?
Show-runners and celebrities have been supporting the writers. It’s time for those of us who most love their work to support them as well.
Here is my suggestion.
MAIL PENCILS to the AMPTP and to any studios whose shows you enjoy. Make sure the pencils are NOT sharpened—let’s not impale any innocent mail carriers in this movement! One 42-cent stamp won’t do it, because the letter must be hand cancelled; it costs 58 cents (or, if you’re lazy like me, just slap two stamps on each business-sized envelope). Feel free to enclose a brief not explaining which show(s) you most want back as soon as possible.
Maybe we can help the studios see just how much support the WGA has. And maybe, just maybe, we can give them a graceful way to back down—not because they’re buckling under the writers’ demands, but because they care so much about their audience.
Us.
And isn’t that supposed to be their job?
For your convenience, here are some of the pertinent addresses:
AMPTP (Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers)
15503 Ventura Boulevard
Encino CA 91436
ABC television Studio
500 S. Buena Vista St.
Burbank, CA 91521-0001
CBS Studios
7800 Beverly Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA. 90036
FOX Network
P.O. Box 900
Attn: FOX BROADCASTING Publicity Dept.
Beverly Hills, CA 90213 0900
NBC Studios
3000 W. Alameda Ave.
Burbank, CA. 91523
Thank you!