I didn't see another thread regarding this... I know they are filming right now. I also know that at least in television writers are available during filming for rewrites. I assume that is the case for movies as well.
Can anyone confirm this? And if so I guess that HBP will be delayed? _________________ Visit Spinners End!
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The script is already written.
Any major changes, then the directors and producers can handle it.
Also, I wonder if it makes a difference that the screenwriter is in Britian. Is this strike global, or only in the US? _________________ Blame it on a simple twist of fate ~ Bob Dylan Team Cucumber, FTW!
I'm pretty sure the stirke is just for TV and I have a feeling it's just in America... there's no talk going on here in Australia about Aussie show's being put on hiatus or any striking. Not that it would bother me if they stoped making Australian TV shows. _________________
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No, it effects movies, too. But we won't see the results of the strike in the theaters until well after we see the effects on tv... Tv shows aren't written as far in advance.
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Hollywood writers picket;
late-night TV first to feel effects
By Gary He, AP
Jay Leno, David Letterman and other late-night talk shows will go dark Monday night as the first strike by movie and TV writers since 1988 began early in the day.
Writers and studios are at odds over royalties for movies and TV shows offered on the Internet and sold on DVD, now just pennies a disc.
New York-based members of the Writers Guild of America were already walking picket lines when NBC's Today show went on the air Monday morning. The demonstration, featuring a giant inflated rat, was set up behind police barricades in an area adjacent to the NBC studios, where such shows as Late Night With Conan O'Brien were going to be forced to play reruns.
Saturday Night Live writer/performer Seth Meyers, on the New York picket line, said, "We all know how lucky we are to have jobs. We're not asking for much. We're saying when our writing generates revenue, we want a piece of that, and with the way media is changing, you're going to have to change the rules."
"I wear three hats. I'm a writer and actor and executive producer," said 30 Rock star and creator Tina Fey, an SNL alum. "I'm here striking as a writer. I'm contractually obligated to finish these next four days of shooting as an actor. But we've stopped any writing work completely, and the whole thing will be shut down by Friday."
But her humor remained intact: "I have a fantasy that (California) Gov. (Arnold) Schwarzenegger will swoop into L.A. to settle something somehow."
In California, picketers included Julia-Louis Dreyfus, who protested just yards from a giant billboard advertising her CBS show, The New Adventures of Old Christine. "How this is resolved will directly affect our union, too," she said, referring to the actors union contract that expires next year.
Noise caused by about 20 writers disrupted filming at the Studio City, Calif., site used for CBS' Cane before the production was moved to a nearby CBS lot. Tom Hogan, a location manager for the show, said filming began hours before the picketers arrived.
Late-night talk shows, which depend on writers molding the day's news into opening monologues and skits, are the first to feel the effects, going into reruns immediately. (Leno made a midmorning stop at NBC studios in Burbank and handed out doughnuts while visiting with strikers.)
The next victims will be some daytime talk shows and soap operas. Ellen DeGeneres tapes her daytime talk show in advance. Fresh episodes air through Tuesday, although DeGeneres, showing solidarity with her writers, did not tape additional shows Monday.
For now, movie theaters will remain stocked with new films, written and produced far ahead of their release dates. But TV viewers will soon feel the effects of the strike: Prime-time sitcoms and dramas could exhaust their supply of already-completed episodes and stockpiled scripts as early as January.
After that, a prolonged strike would spell repeats, newsmagazines, game shows and other reality-TV series, none of which rely on the 12,000-plus members of Writers Guild of America in both Los Angeles and New York.
The strike is the first major Hollywood labor disruption since a 22-week walkout by actors and writers in 1988. Nick Counter, chief negotiator for the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, said, "We're hunkered down for a long one."
So is veteran writer/producer Tom Fontana, who produced NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street. "Management hasn't given us any indication that it won't be a long siege," he said. "They seem to want a long strike, and we're going to be here until they're willing to talk to us." No new talks are scheduled.
The writers union says the overall compensation package it sought would cost $220 million over three years, a fraction of the $24.4 billion in revenues generated by U.S. DVD sales and rentals last year alone, according to accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.
"Clearly, there is money being made, and writers should really get a piece of that," said Daily Show actor/writer John Oliver.
Jon Robin Baitz, creator and writer of ABC's Brothers and Sisters, said he understands viewers may have little sympathy for either side because its "rich people fighting." But "we're talking about the way in which people are paid for the work they do in a giant marketplace."
"This is ultimately about money, but it's also about respecting writers as the primary creative artists who create content that earns billions of dollars for these companies," said Carlton Cuse, an executive producer and writer of ABC's Lost and a member of the guild's negotiating committee.
New shows now struggling to build an audience face quick exits. Fox's 24, due in January, would likely be shelved until next season, while Lost would see its planned 16-episode run cut in half. In part due to fears of a strike, ABC has already postponed the Nov. 27 premiere of drama Cashmere Mafia, starring Lucy Liu, and NBC has dropped plans for a six-episode Heroes prequel that was due in April.
Mike Scully, former executive producer of The Simpsons and a writer on The Simpsons Movie, says the timing of the strike will maximize its effect. "As unfortunate as it is that we are on strike, this is the time to do it, in the middle of the production season," Scully says. "This could be the first TV season you'll actually see Jack Bauer go to sleep for a few episodes."
A long strike also would interrupt development of new series for next season. Ad buyers expect replacement programming to dampen ratings, forcing networks to compensate for millions of ad dollars that guarantee minimum audience levels.
A walkout would have a huge ripple effect on the Los Angeles economy, too. Los Angeles economist Jack Kyser said a strike similar to 1988's could result in at least $1 billion in economic losses.
Says Sarah Bunting, co-editor of the TV fan website Television Without Pity, "A lot of people are starting to realize the secondary and ancillary effects of a strike like this. When productions are dark, there are whole other subsets of the industry that are out of work."
Thanks everyone for the feedback. That's good to hear. I guess I could have reasoned that out, but it's easy to live in my own little world thinking the world evolves around the US. Obviously it doesn't. I had let the fact that the movies are all done in England slip my mind, and for that I apologize.
Thanks to Mad Eye for moving my thread. _________________ Visit Spinners End!
9 3/4", Oak, Phoenix
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