Writer's and Actor's Strike 2023: Aaaaand Scene...That's a Wrap!

[Starboy52]

… How the fukk is Zaslav making that much money when WBD has been getting chopped and screwed to pieces under his watch…???

 

[taker597]

… How the fukk is Zaslav making that much money when WBD has been getting chopped and screwed to pieces under his watch…???

This is misleading... Zaslav is from the NBC Discovery side of the merger

 

[humminbird]

… How the fukk is Zaslav making that much money when WBD has been getting chopped and screwed to pieces under his watch…???

he got a lot of bonuses when Time Warner and Discovery finally merged

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

he got a lot of bonuses when Time Warner and Discovery finally merged

Yeah I was gonna say when you're the CEO and you lead a huge merger like that you're going to get an insane payout. It still doesn't excuse how much he and the other executives are making at all these studios because if they are claiming to lose money, then they need to come up off their wealth too.

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

That Hollywood Accounting shyt is insane.

 

[EzekelRAGE]

… How the fukk is Zaslav making that much money when WBD has been getting chopped and screwed to pieces under his watch…???

Zaslav ran discovery and made them a lot of money by going all in on reality type shows. Cheap and quick as hell to make.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Why wouldn't it be? It will have ramifications for television and movies going forward.

Y’all niccas better join me and my tribe of @Roadie pipeher @MidniteJay @Figaro and others and get on this KDrama itish

shyt held us down during the Pandemic

 

[the elastic]

Y’all niccas better join me and my tribe of @Roadie pipeher @MidniteJay @Figaro and others and get on this KDrama itish

shyt held us down during the Pandemic

They need to show more yams before I can buy in

 

[mson]

This has already happened

Andor co aired on ABC and Freeform because it was doing trash numbers on D+

I didn't realize they did. I def would've watched.

 

[Neuromancer]

Did Ron Pearlman beat dude up yet?

 

[Robbie3000]

You guys keep talking about writers being the issue, especially when it comes to tentpole movies and big IP franchises

I don't think you know how this shyt works...

Do you understand that once the script is out of the writer's hands, there are hundreds of decisions and changes that are made without their input?

You do understand that sometimes a writer can watch the final product and see things and hear things that they didn't write happen on screen?

Do you have any idea what the notes process is like on a script of any budget? Let alone a $200m movie?

Have you ever seen an email that contains a document with all of the notes from executives, studio people and producers where one person asks for a change and 2 notes later someone else is asking for another change that is the complete opposite of the first? But you have to find a way to appease both because both of those people are powerful enough to make it so you'll never work again.

You haven't heard the stories of writers completing an entire script and then being told that they need to insert CHARACTER X into at least Y number of scenes in order to fulfil an actor's contractual obligation?

A lot of people's complaints about "writing" and "writers" is predicated on the wrong idea that the script a writer completes is the script that is shot page for page, word for word.

If you ever have the chance, find a "Shooting Script". You'll notice that some pages are white, some pages are blue, some pages are yellow etc. You know why that is?

It's because someone wanted things added, changed, moved, removed and either the original writer, or more often, someone completely different, got paid to do what they were told and make those changes.

Writers aren't just asking for more money, they're asking for a better sense of control. Like, you know, actually being allowed to be on set while the script you wrote is being shot, so that if changes are needed, the actual writer can make them and not a producer or the director who doesn't really care and just wants to go home.

1. People should watch Issa Rae’s rebooted Project Green light to see this sausage making process. It’s a fascinating look at how useless the execs are and how all the blame ends up on the creatives for their bad decision making. I need to make a thread in the show.

2. shytty products or not, the product still made money. This dispute is not about the quality of content, but the sharing of generated revenues. Any worker siding with the studio execs is a cuck.

 

[Danie84]

CaC Men gets richer with each passing decade of ineptitude

 

[mson]

Did Ron Pearlman beat dude up yet?

Ron never said he was going to beat anybody up. He said shyt could happen.

 

[Neuromancer]

Ron never said he was going to beat anybody up. He said shyt could happen.

Ron Pearlman was born in the Heights. He's running down on someone at some point.

 

[pete clemenza]

Unless you're writing for your own production or film project, screenwriting sucks big time. It blows