The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers has a fun new flash widget on their site with a running tally of how much income the writers have dropped into a black hole since the strike started. Right now, it’s at about $120 million. Kind of a dick move if you ask us, since producers trying to screw writers is why they’re at impasse. Besides, writers stand to lose a lot more if they let producers slime their way out of fair compensation deals for new media and internet distribution. [AMPTP]
Suze
Thursday, December 13, 2007 at 2:34 PM@yougottabekidding. Not all writers are rich. The “averages” yu hear about are just that, averages, with the lowest paid writers and the highest averaged out. Every profession has highly paid people and lower paid ones, dependng on skill and talent, so I am not really getting your point here. Entertainment, whether music a play or film etc…, has value and the creator deserves to be paid. I am not saying that I think any actor is really worth $20 million, but if a moviefrom a writers script brings in billions – then they deserve a part of that, because of copyright issues. Same as a sonwriter or print author. Writing is work, and acting is work, and just because not everyone does it (or can do it as well) does not make it any less real work.