A Dish Served Cold
Everyone knows the studios are reigning in the cash on talent. It pervades the industry and Hollywood is in a quiet (or maybe not so quiet) panic. A career writer who used to share office space with us dropped by the other day. I asked him - is what I hear real? How are your colleagues feeling about work right now? What is the word on the street?
"Apocalyptic."
"Seriously?"
"I used to have work booked 2 years in advance. Now, it's just job to job. And I'm lucky."
My prying ears also overhear other conversations and who knows if it is true. The studios are orchestrating the reigning in of talent cost. They resent the grudge fuck of the writers strike from a couple years ago and started plotting their revenge. And here it is. From their POV - you don't want to work with us to share in the future risk? You going to grudge fuck us for the DVD deal made years ago? Okay. Go ahead. You have the power now. But there will be a comeuppance.
So here we are. The studios are starving the talent. We'll see what happens.
1 comment:
The talent that needs to be starved are the actors. I firmly believe that the ridiculous cost-points of so-called A-listers is a major contributor to the economical failings of this industry and at this point their paychecks are so undeserving, l mean I dare you to name a single actor who can still "open" a film. Writers are a different story, but they've always gotten the shaft when it comes to respect and money, that's nothing new.
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