The TV Theatrical plenary has concluded, and the proposals from the dozens of sessions across the nation have been winnowed down to a priority list. That’s the good news. The bad news: the session was in many ways the most acrimonious of the entire process, with one particular well known individual making a real spectacle [...]
Today and tomorrow the TV-Theatrical/Exhibit A joint W&W process will be completed as the proposals made at the dozens of sessions across the country are synthesized into a set of priorities. The list will be brought to the joint SAG-AFTRA board meeting Sept. 12. Negotiations are set to start with the AMPTP on Sept. 27.
The long running lawsuit charging that SAG has cheated members out of foreign royalties has been settled, at least tentatively. The Wrap says that as much as $25 million is involved, and implies that the settlement does not include an admission by SAG that it did anything wrong. Sharon Waxman of the Wrap is widely [...]
One of the really unfortunate things in recent contracts has been the absence of residuals for pre-1974 programming. If you’d like to talk about that (and maybe about changing it, at least for online streaming) Wednesday is the night, at least in Hollywood. HOLLYWOOD GUILD MEMBERS: ATTEND AN IMPORTANT CAUCUS TO DISCUSS NEW MEDIA STREAMING [...]
According to a tally by Nellie Andreeva on a site we don’t link to, the two year dominance of AFTRA over SAG in pilot season, which predictably meant almost all the new series picked up were AFTRA, means that for the first time in decades AFTRA this fall AFTRA will have more scripted shows than [...]
It’s no longer rumor. Hulu announced today it will launch an all-platform service called Hulu Plus, streaming current season episodes, including, for the first time, Law & Order SVU. In addition to the subscription revenue, Hulu will be selling advertising. So far it’s just in what they’re calling “preview” mode, what everyone else calls beta. [...]
