Comments on: Directors Guild and Producers Reach Quick Agreement!

By: alfie

alfie — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:43:07 +0000

I can see this ending disastrously for the writers union. at first I thought these side deals might add pressure to the studios but i can see it tearing the union apart.

the wga might collapse due to these side deals.

its all or nothing if you strike.

By: Darren J Seeley

Darren J Seeley — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:02:17 +0000

And just the other day the WGA wentt in for another one of those 'side deals"- this one with production company Spyglass Entertainment (27 Dresses, some of Shamhammer's earlier films, the Bruce/Evan Almighty films, a number of others)...so with the DGA/AMPTP agreement I see a resolve with the WGA ahead. Just as long as the WGA gives up on the stupid stuff like the reality shows and such. It would be a shame if the Oscars got threatened because the WGA wants to unionize the scribes of Flava Of Love III.

By: CW05

CW05 — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:08:40 +0000

The longer the WGA keeps up with their pettyness, the worse they’re going to look to the public. The producers obviously want to get deals done, seeing how they wrapped this one up quickly and quietly.

By: Melbye

Melbye — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:08:21 +0000

This may hurt what WGA is doing. Some people outside the industry who are casual observers and even some in the industry might think how could the DGA and producers reach a deal so fast while the WGA and producers are fighting and have been fighting for 11 weeks now.
I guess next up is negotiations with SAG. Wonder if that will go as smoothly as the negotiations did with DGA

By: CrackpotPress

CrackpotPress — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:44:47 +0000

I have it on very good authority that the DGA deal was struck in principal before Xmas.

The Writers are pissed.