,✍🏾 Writer’s Quotes to Live By
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath
✍🏼ATA Propose A New Revenue-Sharing Deal: Talks with WGA Resumes
Negotiations have resumed between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Association of Talent Agents (ATA), and there is still no resolution in sight.
The latest round of talks come eight weeks after the overall deal between WGA and ATA expired because the two parties were unable to come to agreement over the practice of :
packaging — where an agency collects fees from a studio or network for bundling talent it represents and presenting that multi-pronged project to the studio or network.
These two symbiotic companies need to get it together, and realize they need each other, they seriously are acting like a divorced couple meeting up to exchange a child with no insults thrown, it’s time to celebrate the little things. Honestly, the bickering between these two conglomerates are tearing my sensibilities APART!
The proposal on Friday is the second revenue-sharing deal ATA has offered to writers. The WGA has requested the full contract language in order to “formulate the appropriate response,” according to an email the guild sent to members Friday.
In opening remarks, a copy of which was provided to TheWrap, CAA co-chairman Bryan Lourd told guild representatives that “The ATA has never been more unified and determined to get this right with the membership of your Guild. Today, we hope to turn the page.”
We’ll keep you updated on what information the WGA returns to the table with as this war continues to wage on, at least we’re inching towards a resolution.
Slow progress…Is better than NO progress.
✍🏼 Steven Spielberg Penning Horror Series Too Scary for Your Own Good
🚨New Streaming platform alert🚨This time from the brilliant minds behind Dreamworks Pictures comes the upcoming Quibi digital platform from co-founders and business whales Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg.
Quibi, the short form video firm, has already raised $1 billion in star energy alone. What separates Quibi from the rest is their niche is hellbent on becoming the ‘SNAPCHAT” of streaming services.
The company aims to tell 2-to-2½-hour stories in small chapters of seven to 10 minutes each.
“We’re trying to bring the very best of Silicon Valley and Hollywood together,” Whitman said at the Producers Guild of America’s ‘Produced By’ Conference in Burbank on Saturday.
Famed film director Steven Spielberg is putting on his screenwriters cap, writing a “creepy” and “super scary show” for forthcoming digital platform Quibi. He’s said to have already cranked out four or five chapters of the show, which should produce between 10 and 12 chapters.
Think Creepshow, or a scary version of his 80’s series Amazing Stories.
Katzenberg said, “Steven Spielberg has a super scary story. He’s actually writing it himself. Getting him to write something is fantastic.”
It’s good to see The Master step back into the horror genre.
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