Eliza Dushku at Writers Guild picket line Dec 7

eliza is world class but don't all these actors and writers and directors and FILMMAKERS have some decent to protest or bring awareness to? i mean, i make £6.45 an hour which is utter garbage and these guys are complaining about getting a quarter million per script!!!

 

send the fuckers back to work already... we need some new shows on the air dammit if i see one more fucking re-run of Full House, I'm gonna shoot Kimmy Gibler in the face.

 

I HOPE you mean with a bullet and NOT...something else. She's just an innocent child, man!

 

of course with a bullet... that stupid fucking annoying brat needs to be shot.

 

They want more money for their work when it is used online than Hollywood studios are willing to pay. Because the strike is over matters of principle, not just dollars and cents, it could last for months. The writers are determined not to repeat the mistake they made in 1985, when they listened to the studios' plea that home video was an unproven new market and agreed to a residual payment of 0.3%, which translates into about four cents for each sale of a DVD—or one-tenth of what DVD-box manufacturers get. The writers now want a residual payment of 2.5% for re-use of material online and on mobile phones. The studios say that internet delivery is the same as home video, so the old rate still applies. And they refuse to pay anything to writers when content is streamed over the internet free to viewers, supported by ads, because this is merely “promotion”. Both sides made last-minute concessions on traditional-media payments. But because new-media rights are so critical to the future earnings of writers and studios, neither was willing to compromise.

This is a matter of the writers getting fucked by the suits.

 

actually, this is a matter of the people who watch tv getting fucked over with annoying god damn fucking re-runs....

 

When the writers start funding the films they can call the shots but until then they can take a payment for services the same as everyone else. Speaking as a writer i have no sympathy for people who make a fortune and complain about it. Picketing for more money for writers? Nope. Not on. Picketing for anyone at all in the film industry? Not on. These people make more money in a week than i can in a year. If they don't want the deal they don't have to take it. they can either go back to a shit job or finance their own projects if they care about them so much.

Film-making is a privileged job and these people should remember that the only people who get screwed are the people who have to spend a fortune at the cinema and a fortune while buying their dvd's. All of them should hang their fucking heads in shame for complaining about their huge wages.

Every one of them should take a pay cut and make us want to go to the cinema every week.

 

Thanks....