REJECTED! WGA rejects offer by studios, submits counter offer
After 3 long weeks of striking, the studios submitted an offer to writers: A three-year deal offered by the producers that would allow the writers to make $130 million above the more than $1 billion they currently earn. The writers rejected. But don’t take that number as greed, it doesn’t show you the billions of dollars the studio makes on everything that is released.
The union says the writers would only make $250 from a year’s re-use of an hour-long show on the Internet - a fraction of what they make for a network rerun.
The Writers Guild offered a counter-proposal they say would cost the industry $151 million over three years, which amounts to a three-percent increase in writer’s pay.
Watch some of the online videos produced by writers about the strike
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Who’s on the line?
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The writers’ strike - the first in nearly 20 years - has shut down production on scores of weekly and daily television shows and has begun to affect work on big-screen feature films.
Those studios are so ridiculous. Just pay them already! They earned it!
Well this is important as it is going to pave the way for writers 10 years down the line when everything is on the net. Everything, including your home televisions.