Done Deal
02-03-2005, 01:29 PM
Here are a few quotes:
"The title of producer has in the last 20 years become a bargaining chip, a negotiated perk, given to those who can extract it from the studios," Kathleen Kennedy, president of the Producers Guild of America, said last year when introducing a new program designed to limit credits."
"Vance Van Petten, the guild's executive director, says audiences snicker when they see a dozen or more names of 'producers' scroll by at the end of a film.
And he says moviegoers should care when hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent to pay people who do not directly contribute to the making of a film -- money that could have been spent improving the movie's quality."
Click here (http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/03/film.whos.a.producer.ap/index.html) for the full article.
"The title of producer has in the last 20 years become a bargaining chip, a negotiated perk, given to those who can extract it from the studios," Kathleen Kennedy, president of the Producers Guild of America, said last year when introducing a new program designed to limit credits."
"Vance Van Petten, the guild's executive director, says audiences snicker when they see a dozen or more names of 'producers' scroll by at the end of a film.
And he says moviegoers should care when hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent to pay people who do not directly contribute to the making of a film -- money that could have been spent improving the movie's quality."
Click here (http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/03/film.whos.a.producer.ap/index.html) for the full article.