Writer's Strike Thread

[Toups]

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/

at the Eisner jab.

[dragonflies]

FrankenEisner LMFAO

[Khan]

I disagree with that statement, Toups. Eisner was irrelevant L-O-N-G before then.

[dreammaster]

I just watch the news and it seem that the strike is over

[NYC123]

A deal has been struck between the major media companies and the Writers Guild of America to end the writers' strike, former Walt Disney chief executive Michael Eisner revealed on CNBC.

"It's over," Eisner said. "They made the deal, they shook hands on the deal. It's going on Saturday to the writers in general."

Eisner, speaking live on CNBC's "Fast Money," seemed to hesitate initially about whether it was possible that the writers could still reject the agreement, but finally suggested the deal's acceptance was inevitable.

"A deal has been made, and they'll be back to work very soon," Eisner said, adding, "I know a deal's been made. I know it's over."

Eisner did not elaborate on terms of the agreement. He said he expects most of the media companies affected by the strike to have "small" write-downs as a result of the deal. Eisner said the deal was struck last Friday.

As a result of studio cutbacks, however, many of the writers who went on strike are unlikely to return to the same big-money contracts they'd had as individuals with the studios, Eisner said.

Shares of Walt Disney and CBS were both up in extended electronic trading Thursday.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/23057002

[dragonflies]

Kyle that was already disputed a few posts previously

[SoapQueen89]

Writers, producers reach tentative deal

By Liza Foreman

Feb 10, 2008

Strike Zone: Latest news and updates

BERLIN -- WGA members received a memo at 3 a.m. PT Saturday from WGA West president Patric Verrone and WGA East president Michael Winship, outlining a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and assuring them that an agreement has been reached which "protects a future in which the Internet becomes the primary means of both content creation and delivery."

The memo comes on the eve of Saturday's meeting for members scheduled at 6:30 p.m. PT at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, where the agreement is expected to be formally ratified.

According to sources at the Berlin International Film Festival, the agreement has been considered a given for the past couple of days. The tentative agreement will cover the resumption of work through May 1, 2011.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/conten...654920f5c0a37e9

[miss wolf]

http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/02/writers-and-pro.html

Writers and producers reach tentative deal

Feb 9, 2008, 10:08 AM | by Vanessa Juarez

Categories: Strike

According to the Writers Guild of America website, the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have ironed out the details of a tentative deal. The next step toward ending the writers' strike: The Guild's board will present the terms to its membership today, followed by an official vote to ratify the contract. Some of the details of the tentative deal:

-- In the third year of the contract, writers will receive 2 percent of distributor's gross receipts for ad-supported streaming of television after a promotional window.

-- On permanent downloads, writers will get .36 percent of distributor's gross receipts for the first 100,000 downloads of a television program and the first 50,000 of a feature film. After that, pay is increased to .7 percent and .65 percent, respectively.

-- The agreement defines what promotional use is. In a nutshell, clips can be "used without payment to promote theatrical, television or new media exhibition if the clip contains 'tune-in,' rental or purchase information." But writers do get paid for the use of clips if the "primary purpose of the exhibition is to permit viewing of archived clips," as on, say, www.thedailyshow.com.

-- Networks will consult the showrunner when a commercial product is to be integrated into the storyline of an episode of a dramatic series. (This has been somewhat of an important issue for the WGA and the Screen Actors Guild, as they have taken the issue up with the FCC in recent months.)

In an e-mail sent to Guild members, WGA West president Patric A. Verrone and WGA East president Michael Winship acknowledged that while the tentative deal ''is neither perfect nor perhaps all that we deserve,'' it ''establishes the principle that, 'When they get paid, we get paid.''' In their e-mail, Verrone and Winship also urged WGA members to vote to ratify the contract and end the four-month strike: ''An ongoing struggle against seven, multinational media conglomerates, no matter how successful, is exhausting, taking an enormous personal toll on our members and countless others. As such, we believe that continuing to strike now will not bring sufficient gains to outweigh the potential risks and that the time has come to accept this contract and settle the strike.''

A spokesperson for the AMPTP had no immediate comment on the tentative deal.

[Sylph]

[Adam]

Thank goodness. Hopefully next week we learn that Lynn Marie Latham and her team were officially canned

And yay! The Oscars will not be interrupted.

[Roman]

Being reported at MSNBC.

[dragonflies]

Thank goodness, and Sylph what the heck is up with your post?

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Just a reminder to everyone, the WGA Award winners will be announced tonight, in the midst of all of this.....

I'm still waiting until the WGA officially votes on the new deal....

[Toups]

DAYS already made its first move with the firings, now we have to wait to see who they hire for the rest of the team and of course the inevitable announcement of the new Head Writer.

Y&R is also the soap that everyone is going to interested in knowing about.

Next week is gonna be huge if the strike ends today or tomorrow. We can already expect a few things to happen, but if I wonder if there could be a few surprises that nobody has mentioned. We'll see!!

[stenbeck212]

That's the only reason a deal will be hustled through this weekend, if at all. The irony is laughable. Writers are being railroaded so a handful of them can rustle up what is traditionally some of the worst writing in the business - award show banter. The world would breathe a sigh of relief if overrated celebs never approached a podium to tell lame jokes again.