Leisure writers are placing coast to coast. The intelligent indicators they’re holding up on the picket traces (“Do not pay us peanuts to write down ‘Billions’”) are sometimes as inventive as their work. Each three years, the Writers Guild of America, the TV and movie writers’ union, negotiates a contract with the Alliance of Movement … Read more
Throughout an interview final 12 months with Esquire, Dan Erickson was requested what “Severance” can inform audiences about employee solidarity. “I completely love that folks have grabbed onto that ingredient of the story and are seeing that struggle mirrored on the present,” Erickson stated. “I am on no account a labor knowledgeable, however I believe … Read more
Yeah, yeah, we will spare you from rehashing the identical joke that everybody’s already made that after all George R.R. Martin helps writers’ strikes, as a result of why else would the notorious procrastinator nonetheless be engaged on “The Winds of Winter” after a seemingly endless collection of delays! The important thing takeaway right here … Read more
Picture: Rodin Eckenroth / Stringer (Getty Photographs) 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, … Read more
Final night time’s MTV Film and TV Awards was a extra subdued affair than regular with the backdrop of the continuing Writers’ Guild of America strike that has crippled Hollywood, while the battle for truthful pay rages on throughout Tinseltown. Usually, a night of enjoyable and frolics, MTV pivoted to a pre-recorded present after the … Read more