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The takeaway right here is just not that our favourite reveals are going to fail, however that via company greed and a failure to regulate to the instances, tv and film writing has grow to be a depreciated, devalued, and uninviting profession. Writers are struggling to make lease, whereas David Zaslav, the CEO of Warner Bros, makes greater than $35 million a 12 months.
That is an existential, essential transfer that many writers didn’t need to do, however did so out of a want to maintain their occupation alive and to assist cleared the path for different unions to behave in their very own energy as negotiations provide you with AMPTP later within the 12 months. Total, writers as asking for $500 million unfold throughout practically 12,000 writers; this can be a 3% enhance. Contemplating the billions of {dollars} streamers and studios are making, their requests appear fairly cheap.
You possibly can sustain with the way to assist writers by visiting the WGA contract website.
We are going to maintain updating this slideshow as we study of extra productions impacted by the continuing strike.
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