Tumultuous Hollywood Strike Looms, Rest Of U.S. Prepares To Finally Do Something Productive With Its Time
Author: AF Duncan
November 2nd, 2007
Looks like that huge writer’s strike is imminent, but we’ll find out for sure this afternoon apparently.
In the near term, a writers’ strike will have an immediate impact on more than 200,000 workers in the movie and TV industry here and the thousands more who produce or sell entertainment elsewhere in the United States and abroad. The dispute may also signal more labor trouble to come, as directors and actors face similar issues when their contracts expire next June.
Over the long haul, multiple strikes could lead to a drastic overhaul of the economics of Hollywood. They could redefine the industry’s relationship with its highly unionized work force at a time when DVD sales are cooling and changing movie and TV markets have workers and companies alike vying for their perceived fair share of a yet-to-be-identified next digital bonanza.
“I’m afraid that everybody’s in for a terrible time,” said Norman Lear, the writer, producer and entrepreneur whose career spanned the disruptions of the 1980s — when Hollywood weathered five strikes by its guilds — and the years of relative peace that preceded and followed that tumultuous decade.
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5 Responses to “Tumultuous Hollywood Strike Looms, Rest Of U.S. Prepares To Finally Do Something Productive With Its Time”
November 2nd, 2007 at 8:55 am
So… People whose jobs are to steal ideas from comic books, real books, real life, and movies that were already made are going to go on strike?
November 2nd, 2007 at 9:32 am
Ha! So true.
November 2nd, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Public Enemy his the nail on the head almost 20 years ago when they said “Burn Hollywood, Burn!” Screw those jerks.
November 3rd, 2007 at 8:53 am
Looks like I’ll be able to get through that backlog of comics that I’ve stockpiled.
November 5th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
I’ll be looking for scab work.
WHEEEEEEEE!!!!!