Top Showrunners in Support of Nagys' Presidency

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  • #16
    Re: Top Showrunners in Support of Nagys' Presidency

    Originally posted by Bono View Post
    So it's fascinating that 2 close friends who do the podcast together can't actually talk about this issue, but now John can post this? Why now and not 3 weeks ago?
    the difference of opinion as i read it boils down to John wanting to correct the common talking point by folks on Craig's side of the issue, that the WGA is "not negotiating" -- the raison d'etre of Phyllis' slate is purportedly to get the guild "back in the room" with the ATA. As John notes in his post, negotiations never stopped, they only stopped with the ATA itself when it became clear that the sides weren't speaking the same language at all on packaging fees and affiliate productions. at that time, leadership made explicit that they were totally open to negotiating with any ATA agency on an individual basis -- and thus far Verve (not ATA) and Kaplan Stahler and Buchwald (ATA) have taken the guild up on the offer. it was posted on several writers' twitter feeds that there was another mid-tier (presumably) agency that had scheduled a negotiation session with the guild but canceled the day that the Nagy support letter was released because they wanted to wait and see how it all shakes out.

    To Phyllis and Co., negotiating deals with any agencies that aren't WME, CAA, UTA, or ICM is a pointless waste of time because the Verves of the world won't have access to the same projects and talent so why bother. still waiting to more than their Secret Plan for Victory as to how they would do anything different than Goodman & Young have to obtain a different, better result.

    [anyone ever take classes from Phyllis in UCLA's screenwriting program?

    https://deadline.com/2019/08/phyllis...a-1202662135/]

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    • #17
      Re: Top Showrunners in Support of Nagys' Presidency

      LOL! It could easily be pointed out that negotiating with WME, CAA, UTA, or ICM is a pointless waste of time. They have already shown they have ZERO interest in negotiating (a year's warning contract was coming and they did nothing, a counter offer for sharing packaging $$ that was less than minuscule, an "okay, we'll double that less than minuscule" response, and an "Oh, and you can't see our books to know if you're even getting THAT...)
      WGA alone probably will not break them out of their entrenchment. But now we're seeing members of SAG-AFTRA coming to realize that these four no longer hold their fiduciary interests. If they break, directors will be right behind. This is a much bigger issue than just writers. They know it. And they CANNOT let that process even look like a possibility with us.

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