Writers, Producers reach Tentative Deal

[eJm]

www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=festivals&jump=story&id=2476&articleid=VR1117980589&cs=1

The Writers Guild of America has reached a tentative deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.

WGA West president Patric Verrone and WGA East president Michael Winship sent out an email to members at 3 a.m. Saturday alerting writers that a deal has been made that “protects a future in which the Internet becomes the primary means of both content creation and delivery.”

This is the agreement on the table.
www.wga.org/contract_07/wga_tent_summary.pdf

[Steveweiser]

So what does that mean for the second half of the TV season? It just gets shifted by a couple of months?

[tna]

Congrats EJM!

[eJm]

tna said:

Congrats EJM!

Victory is mine*! ;D








*I'm only saying that as a supporter the WGA....so it's not...really a victory for me. It will be when I start screenwriting.

[Hulkshi Tanahashi]

So, did the writers get what they want?

[Boku AKA Da Green Guy]

So that last report you attacked everyone who believed it for was pretty much correct?

Fun.

[eJm]

dagreenguy said:

So that last report you attacked everyone who believed it for was pretty much correct?

Fun.

Eisner was saying they didn't get what they wanted and that's why I didn't believe him because, as you can see, they did get what they want.

This was coming from someone who was slagging off the strikers right as it started so you expect me to suddenly believe him when he has no involvement in the negociations?

[Boku AKA Da Green Guy]

ejm said:

dagreenguy said:

So that last report you attacked everyone who believed it for was pretty much correct?

Fun.

If you look at the report, you'll see I was right because the writers got what they wanted.

Eisner was saying they didn't get what they wanted and that's why I didn't believe him.

Because, as I like reminding you people, Eisner is a douche.

But you were wrong about it being close to being over, if this goes through, and you did still attack people for celebrating it being over.

I know Eisner isn't that great of a person. But I don't appreciate someone attacking others because of something they don't agree with.

[eJm]

dagreenguy said:

ejm said:

If you look at the report, you'll see I was right because the writers got what they wanted.

Eisner was saying they didn't get what they wanted and that's why I didn't believe him.

Because, as I like reminding you people, Eisner is a douche.

But you were wrong about it being close to being over, if this goes through, and you did still attack people for celebrating it being over.

I know Eisner isn't that great of a person. But I don't appreciate someone attacking others because of something they don't agree with.

I'll say it right here, I apologise for attacking anyone. It wasn't my intention at all.

But my perspective was this. Eisner was slagging off people and he was doing this for weeks, trying to raise his credibility on higher levels. Why should I suddenly believe someone when, after slagging off people who deserved better, he says that the strike is over and they got feck all?

I'm still sorry I attacked people, and I never meant for it to come out that way, but I wasn't prepared to believe someone like that.

[default]

hulk6785 said:

So, did the writers get what they want?

Sort of, I guess. They got the internet stuff which was one of, if not their main fighting points. However, apparently, most won't be coming back to the big money contracts due to a lot of movie companies cutting back.

This could be good or bad in the long run. If the writer's decide to make a bunch of good movies that do well, they should get more and more money from their work. If they decide to hold out their good ideas until they're paid better, then we could have some crapulance to deal with.

Although probably it'll be a little from column A and a little more from column B.

[Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action]

dagreenguy said:

ejm said:

If you look at the report, you'll see I was right because the writers got what they wanted.

Eisner was saying they didn't get what they wanted and that's why I didn't believe him.

Because, as I like reminding you people, Eisner is a douche.

But you were wrong about it being close to being over, if this goes through, and you did still attack people for celebrating it being over.

I know Eisner isn't that great of a person. But I don't appreciate someone attacking others because of something they don't agree with.

I'll be honest, I don't remember eJm attacking anyone. I remember him questioning why people would trust a man who wasn't involved, but that is not attacking. There is a difference between attacking someone (calling them idiots, etc) and asking why they're doing something in an attempt to make it seem logical to ones self.

I may be wrong, but I'm just going off what I remember from that last thread.

[Just Jay]

I'm just happy that that we all win in the end. The writers get their compensation, we get our television back.

I cannot wait for Season 7 of 24 personally!

[rrm15]

Apparently, LOST is gonna get at least 3 more episodes this season....hopefully.

[Dynamite Kid]

W00t. I mark for Patrick Verrone.

[eJm]

Update from the WGA:

www.variety.com/article/VR1117980597.html?categoryid=2821&cs=1&nid=2563

The two-and-a-half hour meeting of the WGA's East Coast members was essentially informational, but members seemed to like the information they were getting.

No vote was taken but the sentiment was strong in favor of the tentative pact. Members said the room at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in the Broadway theater district came alive with cheers at various points. Some skeptics drilled into details and asked pointed questions, but an exodus of satisfied scribes began after about an hour.

"This is a historic moment for writers in this country," said Michael Moore. "There is a certain irony about the achievement. I would have thought it'd be autoworkers or ironworkers getting this victory but instead it's the people who got beat up in school for writing in their journals."

"Late Night with David Letterman" writer Bill Scheft described a galvanizing moment early on when filmmaker Terry George rose to speak. "He said we have defeated a tradition of rollbacks that goes back to the air-traffic controllers in 1981," Scheft said. "And that was all I needed to hear."

While not every scribe was quite as ebullient, the mood was undeniably upbeat. "I will vote for this deal but I have a few more questions because I'm bad at math," said screenwriter Steven Katz, in a remark typical of those by rank-and-filers emerging from the hotel's bland conference room.

Members entering the meeting, which was off-limits to the press, were handed a four-page summary of the deal. The session began with comments from negotiators, followed by an open forum.

"It's breaking down now," said one early departee. "People are just standing up and reciting their credits."

Another writer described the scene as a rally for guild members who'd been picketing in Gotham for more than three chilly months. "We were proud that we all stood strong," she said.

"It wasn't unanimous, but there was an overwhelming sense of relief," said Tom Phillips, a CBS newswriter and WGAE Council member.

"Saturday Night Live" cast member Seth Myers, a constant presence on the picket lines, said members felt "we were right about these things." He said the show would resume quickly, perhaps as early as Feb. 16.

Carmen Culver, a film and TV scribe, was asked on her way out of the hotel whether the mood in the room was jubilant.

"Well, we're writers," she said with a smile. "There was jubilation, determination, plenty of questions."

Added Scheft, "This is just the East Coast. The Shrine is where the action is."