I would rather have a dought of big event movies for the next year than sit and watch some of my dream properties come out half assed. Im pissed at the fact that Justice League and G.I Joe are both being put together so quickly because should these movies flop, it would damage any possibility of seeing a sequel or a reboot untill many more years have past, if we are lucky.

The scary times are already here. What this strike indicates to me is that our film industry would much rather cater to their own devices rather than finding a common ground with the people whom I think actually run Hollywood. If the exec’s think that they’re the ones controlling film, they should think again. Without scripts, there are no projects. In turn, make the writers happy, the yield may be better scripts. How arrogant of an industry to ostricize writers, but at the same time stock-pile scripts because they knew they’d never survive on their own without them. And with all these rush jobs coming out, we the audience stand to lose the most.

I’m with the writer’s 100%! Collective-bargaining is the only way to get good pay anymore. Down here in Louisiana we were speechless to find out that we, as local-yokels, could get over a hundred dollars, not even working an eight-hour day, just to be an extra on a movie set. Well, that’s only because of what unions fought for, good pay for your time and effort –something unheard of down here, where the crooked merchant is king and labor is asigned no value at all.
Well, now the WGA wants their fair-share of digital-initiative efforts, the next frontier in entertainment, but the media companies are saying, “Just because we make billions in profits a year, that’s no reason to share the profits with you?” Of course not, they only WRITE the shows!
And for those who try to drag out the tired, old corporate line about, “Well, the suit’s own the networks and the studios, they don’t have to share the profits.” That’s bullshit and you know it!
Since when did it become wrong for the people who are most responsible for generating the cash to get an appreciable percentage of it? Since when did low-wages become the only acceptable form of compensation for work given? Since when did we ask the employers what is acceptable pay, and automatically dismiss the employees opinion on the matter on the grounds that, “employees are lazy and greedy?”
Workers should not merely make whatever the boss deigns to dole out –which is usually as little as he thinks he can get away with– they should be paid as much as the company is capable of paying. I wouldn’t advocate that the suits make nothing, or even begrudge a CEO his “right” (a right which really doesn’t exist, except in their puny brains) to make more than the “lazy creative-types,” but neither would I see a company make 10 million in a year, then see the boss get nine and a three-quarters of that while the employees are left to split amongst themselves whatever pennies are left, after taxes. I don’t know who convinced people that this is somehow right or just, but it’s not. And no you don’t sound business-smart or like you’re laying out the hard real-world facts when you say that garbage. You just sound like a shit-simple, addle-brained fool who thinks employees owe their employers for giving them a job. In that case why don’t we have employees pay their employers instead? After all, the employee OWES the employer, right? That makes about as much sense as paying them subsistence wages.
go to any comapny you want and you’ll find the employees efforts generate millions if not billions for the company. Yet, the company pays them as if all their work generated was 8 dollars an hour. If every job paid employees the money that their work actually generated, instead of an arbitrary, bottom-basement number the corporations demand, we’d be able to eliminate poverty worldwide overnight.

My only wish is that the WGA had stalled the strike until June, so it would coincide with the actors strike, and it would bring the entire entertainment industry to a stand-still. Because as we all know the TV industry begins work three months before the material actually goes to air. So summer is when the TV studios get to work on next seasons episodes. And the same goes for movies –summer is when the scripts for next year’s movies have to be done. Well, if the WGA had waited until summer 2008 they could have used the combined numbers of SAG and WGA to put the fear of God into the suits.
Alas, all they can do now is cause a few shows to go into a longer mid-season hiatus (Prison Break) other shows to debut later in the season (24) and an unfortunate few to be cancelled altogether (K-ville, Life etc). and in the ned the suits may have enough leverage to get the WGA to give up certain royalties and rights they’ve had for decades as part of the new contract.