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Day 12: A New Hope
Variety has just announced that talks will resume between WGA and AMPTP beginning on November 26, following the Thanksgiving break. There's no word on why this is happening, or what caused the sudden change in progress, but hopefully this means enough movement has been made to finally end this thing. From a prepared joint statement: " Leaders from the AMPTP and the WGA have mutually agreed to resume formal negotiations on November 26. No other details or press statements will be issued." Variety also publishes an email members of United Showrunners received earlier this evening: " Those in the process say the studios' sudden responsiveness is a direct result of three thousand writers in the streets, our Internet/communications strategy, and especially showrunners' actions. We had the impact we intended." A media blackout from this point forward is expected, though writers are encouraged to continue picketing through next week.
Pressure has been increasing from all sides, yet all signs still pointed toward a long, hard-fought (six months or so) strike. A few hours ago, Variety reported that Angels & Demons, the follow-up to The Da Vinci Code starring Tom Hanks, had become the first major casualty of the strike -- postponing production because the script turned in by Akiva Goldsman came in under the deadline with "insurmountable problems." Should the writers go back to work, that could potentially get this film back on track, as well as help speed up future negotiations with SAG and DGA. Could this spell the beginning of the end of this entire strike? For the sake of new Cavemen episodes, I sure as hell hope so.
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11-17-2007 @ 1:08AM
Samuel McConnell said...
You mean casualty, right? Not causality.
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11-17-2007 @ 3:38AM
johnny chang said...
when's this going to end please email me when it does
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11-17-2007 @ 10:45AM
Philip said...
The TV networks appear to be in good shape till mid-January, early February. I suspect this won't hit critical status till then, when advertisers stop buying time in large amounts because of reduced viewership. What exactly Americans will be doing with their time, I don't know. Being a big fan of HBO's lineups, this will probably have a bigger impact on those types of subscriber channels. There's more great writing on HBO than all 5 TV networks combined. We'll have to amuse ourselves with Ali G reruns till this is over.
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11-17-2007 @ 1:12PM
zencat said...
For the record, Nikki Finki's Deadline Hollywood Daily blog broke this story and today she has a fascinating follow-up. (http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/) Variety has been shoveling propaganda for the AMPTP. Variety bad. Nikki good.
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