>6 episodes = 2 writers and a show runner
>6-12 episodes = 4 writers and a show runner
>13+ episodes = 5 writers and a show runner
Under the new writers contract 50% of these people will now be laid off. Is the WGA, dare I say it… based?
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>Increasing the minimum means productions that were already voluntarily over the minimum will now slash their writer amount
Why are all the pro-producer posters such fricking morons? Is it a false flag?
It will when the studios cut their writing budget
>7/12 of these people will be laid off
Hmm… maybe I’ll actually watch Netflix one piece now.
You do not math so well sir
They will only pay for 4 writers and a show runner now, there are 10 people in that picture, half of them will be laid off when the season 4 budget comes out.
There will just be a load of producers accredited as writers.
The limited episodes may usher in a new era of miniseries kino but I doubt it.
Probably. Studios can keep a shows writing budget exactly the same and they’ll still have to lag writers off because now each writer is more expensive. Plus, with having to pay more residuals studios will have less revenue. How will they help make up for that lack of revenue? Cut costs, like the writing budget. And after the SAG contract gets renegotiated and actors get paid more and get more residuals, the studios will have even less revenue. And they can’t fire actors since they’re the face kid the show and you need a different one for each different character. So how will they help make up for that loss of revenue? Cut costs behind the scenes like the writers budget.
Just get a producer, director, actor, or someone else involved in production accredited with the WGA, they now count as a writer towards the requirement, make less but longer episodes, you now have less writers required. Writers will make more money, if they keep their job that is.
>Slash half the writing staff
>Double the workload on the remaining writers
>They won't quit because ???
Writers WANT to have their shit make it into the episode. Having so many writers means that's less likely to happen but they wanted it anyway so there would be more writing jobs. Now each individual writer has more control over the show and they're going to love it. Any writer who whines about the fewer number of writers will quickly be outed as a nepobaby hack and replaced with a writer who actually wants to work.
Because nobody else would want to hire them?
I doubt they have useful college degrees, anon.
Turn a rock over and you'll find someone who wants to be a writer.
>double the workload
too many cooks is detrimental, when you cut 4 babbling morons and their ideas out of the room you might actually get a coherent script eventually from the hacks that remain
A producer shouldn't be part of writing or anything production.
Just the thought of it is horrible.
They won’t be part of the writing, it’ll just be a work around to meet the requirements so that studios can employ less writers like they wanted too.
>season 4
Wait... this show is still in production? Lol. Hollywood really is just a massive tax write-off.
season 4? no way
It's just a minimum, moron.
Yes, and part of the reason for the strike was that the studios wanted to go from 12 writers to 2, which the wga said themselves.
Around the 26 mark
Now they will go from 10-12 to 2-5, lots of writers gonna be out of a job.
>mfw the studio makes the episodes longer so they can go from 8 episodes to 6 episodes and lay off 70% of the writers
Lmao
This. They'll get around this easy
>Multiple seasons a year
>Episodes being split into part 1,2,3
>Fewer episodes that are longer
They’ll increase episode lengths and decrease episode numbers and/or have a shorter break between seasons, maybe even do 2 short seasons a year. Won’t be surprised when the typical 8 episodes season you see on streamers becomes 6. And that’s of course assuming they don’t do the obvious workaround of getting producers and directors to get accredited with the WGA so they can count toward the requirements.
>Make $30/hr
>Government raises minimum wage from $7.25 to $10
>Boss slashes my pay to $10/hr
>spend 100k on writers
>writers demand to be paid 20% more
>still pay 100k on writers and get rid of the ones you can no longer afford
>writers demand more residuals and you make less revenue
>decrease writing budget to 75k to make up for lost revenue and fire writers you can’t afford
>spend 100k on actors
>actors demand a 20% raise and increased residuals
>can’t fire actors so you cut the writing budget to 50k to make up for lost revenue and increased costs elsewhere, fire the writers you can no longer afford and just stick with the minimum
Greedy capital studios would never do that! They’ll happily pay more residuals and lower their revenue and increase budgets and lower their profits or increase their losses because… Because they just will ok?! I was just joking before when I called the studios greedy!!!
>They’ll happily pay more residuals and lower their revenue and increase budgets and lower their profits or increase their losses because… Because they just will ok?!
No, you moron, because there was a fricking strike to make them do it. By your "logic" businesses would all pay their employees $0/hr because anything above that would cut into profits. I despise so much that your vote matters as much as mine.
No, you’re not using your critical thinking skills. Studios already wanted to effectively pay writers less by laying a bunch of them off, that is why there was a strike. They didn’t want to pay writers more, they wanted to pay them less.
Do you really think they’ll increase a shows writing budget? No they’ll keep it the same which means they’ll have to lag writers off now that each one costs more.
They dont want to pay writers more residuals because that means less money to the themselves. Do you think they’ll happily take the loss of revenue? No they will make up for it in other ways like by cutting budgets and costs, including the writing budget.
They’re gonna have to pay actors more money and give them more residuals too. That’s gonna increase their costs and lower their revenue. But they can’t lay off actors. Do you think they’ll happily take that loss too? No, they’ll make up for it behind the scenes by cutting costs and budgets, including the writers budget.
Studios wanted to fire writers, they wanted to pay them less, they didn’t want to give them residuals. Now they have to pay them more, but they have a minimum they must hire now and have no reason to go over it. So why would a studio go over it? They used to hire 10-12 writers when they were cheaper and earned less residuals, now that they’re way more expensive and earn more residuals they’re gonna make cuts. Why wouldn’t they, when they were already looking to make cuts before?
Yes, this will be a good thing. Less cooks in the kitchen will make a better dish. Hopefully we get better shows with less writers now.
Because that’s what they agreed upon in the contract and are making more money individually now?
This is all so fricking stupid.
Is making a tv show that expensive? They keep cutting costs but everyone in the industry keeps getting paid less and less - except for the suits.
Can't they, like, make their own holywood? lol
They keep cutting costs because everyone in the industry is getting paid more and more individually, while studios are making less and less as cable TV dies and streamers are not profitable at all or not as profitable as they seem.
>cable TV dies
Every tv channel has their own streaming now.
And I don't buy it that it's more expensive to just rent a data center, than to have all the infrastructure necessary for tv broadcasting. They already needed a data center to host their videos, the only difference is making some application to stream it.
>but it consumes lots of bandwith!
If they are consuming a lot of bandwith, means they are streaming a lot of content, which means more money.
Who knows why, some streamers are flat out losing money, others that say they’re profitable probably use Hollywood accounting tricks. Plus the studios are run by greedy israelites. Either way, before the strike they wanted to cut down writers rooms, and that feeling won’t go away after the strike, it’ll be amplified even more now that a writer costs more money
>as cable TV dies and streamers are not profitable at all or not as profitable as they seem.
go woke go broke
>boss wants to fire me and 9 of my coworkers and only keep 2 of us to save money
>we go on strike and earn way more money and tell boss he only has to hire 5 of us
You’re right, surely my boss my will still keep all 12 of us hired!
the problem with this is israelitellywood wastes so much money. ( executive producers) don't do anything and is just a cushy jobs for nepotism bergs. think how much they waste on marketing which isn't effective. then they waste money on actors like dwayne the Black person johnson that never draws a crowd to his movies.
and of course they waste all that money on food, cocaine and hookers.
>all of them have the same birthplace, politics, life experiences and writing style
If they were seeking asylum it would have been claimed in Mexico
If you believe all Latin countries are the same and also bad, it makes sense that Colombians would claim asylum after walking through 6 countries to claim asylum in the first safe country (with high wages)
>muh orc-fu-gees
these places aren't active war zones and with scamflu we are not a safe refuge and real refugees go home after the war is over.
they are foreign invaders. full stop
isnt that just a minimum number?
Yes, which studios have no reason to go over and won’t want to now that they’re earning less revenue and incurring more costs, especially when they were looking to cut costs by laying off writers before this strike.
lauren hissrich was a nepo hire
she's not going anywhere
>film in bumfrickistan eastern Europe
>2nd unit films backgrounds in burgerland or cgi in landmarks for not Chicago etc
>hire UK/Australian writers
>seeking asyslum is not illegal
It is if youre doing it wrong. You're supposed to as for asylum at the first "safe country" that you enter. Not pick the country you like the best and demand they let you in. Sorry sweaties, better luck next time.
Has there ever been a great work of art thought up by a dozen people in a room? Anything good comes from one, MAYBE two people.
wrestlemania IV
Frick all of those "people" to hell.
The brown girl looks like she's got some big booba
oh it shows
the shitcher
>diverse politics
Great, will they welcome MEGA bros into writing room?
>seeking asylum is not illegal
...no, but sticking around when you're denied it is.
If you're a conservative writer you are either someone grandfathered into the writing room (some old writer who is still kicking around) or you did a good job of keeping your politics to yourself. Most would end up butting heads with other writers, show runners, etc because your creative ideas don't align. Someone will find a reason to fire you or remove you from a project if you part of the same think in Hollywood.
Let's have some writers that have experience outside of being a writer.
Those days are long gone.
Lots of cronyism in the industry and people who know the structure of a script but lack creativity or life experience to make good movies or TV.
Sadly. That's the diversity they actually need.
I don't see the problem in the image. Maybe the ones with the "Keep Families Together" signs want the whole family deported.
This is fricked up to make the writers do this because if you say you are against it, your peers will hate you and people will notice you weren't in this image. What a fricked up thing for that c**t to pass
Posting Lauren Hissrich is cheating, the woman is a living, walking, and talking justification for the holocaust.
No one has to accept asylum seekers. Too many writers. Anything over 4-5 is too much.
>50% of these people will now be laid off.
Let me guess: One of them is the showrunner?
Unfortunately no, maybe she’ll be replaced with another one but showrunners count toward the writer requirements for shows now so only 4 of those writers will be retained and the other 5 will be let go.
someone please shop a cheerful Adolf into that photo
Is it hard to be a write? Is this scriptwriting? I wanna learn and make my own movie with AI.