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HBO, InStyle/Warner Bros, Universal and more are busy canceling their Golden Globes parties right now. WGA may still picket what’s left of the telecast Sunday night.
I’ll have a complete writethru, with all of today’s twists and turns, later tonight.
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For christ’s sake! Is this some sort of sick joke? Is the WGA really this bad? They already cancelled the freaking show! What more can they possibly want? Isn’t it bad enough already? Is the WGA literally going on a crusade to get the entire world to hate them? This is getting absolutely ridiculous! It is getting to the point where the WGA is really starting to look like the bad guys here.
It’s not enough to run the victim over, you got to stomp on him and shoot him in the head also? Jesus Christ! There are no words to describe how insane that is! Seriously! What more can the WGA possibly want? They just won’t be happy until they piss off every fan on the planet!
This has really got to be a joke! They are actually going to picket the press conference? You have got to be kidding! This is CRAZY!
Why would they still picket? They got what they want; no show. Why not just let whatever the Golden Globes do go on.
So funny to see all those “For Your Consideration” Golden Globe ads in the right margin of this site. Paid for no doubt by the “enemy” of the WGA, the evil Studios. Give me a break – what hypocracy.
I have a friend at NBC who says this ‘fiasco’ is costing NBC at least $10 million in ad revenue. Any idea how many streaming video residuals that would pay, Jeff? Hello, moguls, is it really just about winning at this point? Give the writers a fair share!
Sigh. Only in Hollywood…cancel some parties and it’s front page news at LATimes.com
War? Economy? Mortgage Crisis? Nope.
Parties.
Good on the WGA for picketing. It’s going to take every bit of fight to get the greedy networks and studios to give them a fair share. Why go easy on them?
Hell, let’s picket the Golden Globes parties, too!
The WGA is quickly losing sympathy – I understand they’re trying to bring Hollywood down, but destroying everything writers or no writers is not the way to go about it. I really hope they allow red carpet coverage and a press room. It makes the point for them to be shown giving support to the writers more than a press conference people will skip over and forget about it.
I will be out of work soon because of the writers and many of my co-workers already are out of work. I have reality pilot that doesn’t need these ahole writers and it would give NBC or FOX a triple revenue stream. I can more than makeup the revenue that NBC will lose on the Self_Promotional/Pat on your own back Golden Globes. 661-313-5286 if you want to help me make a show and say “To hell with the writers”. I say fire them all and let’s move on.
I just want to know, when the writers put out a $50million movie bomb or a $2million pilot that bombs, do they pay the studios back for their losses?
Is Everybody High? Pt. 2
And when you’re finished explaining the dollars and cents of the strike in response to my earlier post, why don’t we tote up the millions of dollars in lost income and revenue for all the ancillary stuff like parties, limos, stylists, media coverage — delivered for the most part by the working class of Hollywood — of the now-cancelled Golden Globes? Not to mention the lost value of the promotion the GGs generate, worldwide — we joke about them, but we love them as much as we love our other children. So why would we want to hurt these guys? We’re talking movies, not human rights. International promotion of the “product” that keeps this little enterprise running is kinda important. So much for being able to buy it. You think they were in the bag before? Well, not that bag anymore. Good work.
being pissed off is better than being pissed ON, imo.
i could care less that i may have to miss a few award ceremonies and tv shows — BFD!
go WGA — you have my support!
Yet even more people are put out of work. This is crazy. At this point the WGA looks worse every day. I hope both sides realize the financial crisis many families have been put in, and now even more will join the lines of the unemployed. There will be no way the rift this strike has caused will ever be healed.
NBC is still airing the Globes parties under the banner of “news.” It’s not news. It’s an entertainment program that will be written. Let’s call them on it!
Jim, I totally agree. And, while we’re at it, can we picket both the WGA and the AMPTP?
While I may occasionally bitch and moan about my job, I would actually like to work and pay my bills. I know, crazy talk.
>> For christ’s sake! Is this some sort of sick joke? Is the WGA really this bad? They already cancelled the freaking show! What more can they possibly want? >>
What more can they possibly want?
Gee, hard to say. Couldn’t possibly be something like, I dunno, “a fair and equitable deal from NBC and other AMPTP members,” could it?
No, the strike was about canceling the Golden Globes. Having achieved that, the WGA should immediately give up picketing AMPTP members, of course. They couldn’t possibly want anything but the cancellation of one awards show.
Dude. Where have you been?
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People (non-writers) are suffering. Lives are being ruined. The WGA and the AMPTP need to check their egos at the door and start talking again. I realize that the moguls have bigger egos due to their deeper pockets. The AMPTP did after all, leave the table in a huff. It would be nice if both parties could swallow a little pride and just get on with it. In the end their will be a deal so why not just get on with it! Picketing the news conference, parties, and the Oscars is, in a way, misdirected energy. Just do what you can to get back to talking. All of this is just a waste of time. When you measure it against what is happening to families who are out of work and on the brink of loosing everything it’s just stupid!
The best PR move, for either side, would be for someone to make a move to end this. Will it be the WGA or will it be the AMPTP? Right now both sides look like brats fighting in a playground. Grow up!
People (non-writers) are suffering. Lives are being ruined. The WGA and the AMPTP need to check their egos at the door and start talking again. I realize that the moguls have bigger egos due to their deeper pockets. The AMPTP did after all, leave the table in a huff. It would be nice if both parties could swallow a little pride and just get on with it. In the end their will be a deal so why not just get on with it! Picketing the news conference, parties, and the Oscars is, in a way, misdirected energy. Just do what you can to get back to talking. All of this is just a waste of time. When you measure it against what is happening to families who are out of work and on the brink of loosing everything it’s just stupid!
The best PR move, for either side, would be for someone to make a move to end this. Will it be the WGA or will it be the AMPTP? Right now both sides look like brats fighting in a playground. Grow up!
Uh, they’re picketing the ceremony because NBC is still planning to make money off of it. Not really that strange.
Of course they’ll still picket. Do you know how many cameras will STILL be there?
Congrats to the Guild on this bitter victory. NBC could have allowed the ceremony to go on, and while the licensing fee would still be toast, the press and local party venues, as well as the Beverly Hilton, would still make out.
NBC could have walked away from this looking like good guys, and they blew the chance.
Big win for the WGA here.
Keep taking the fight to them. No Globes. No Oscars. No ad revenue. Make them lose every third of a penny you can. Foot on the throat. That’s the only way to win. And we will.
Well, it goes deeper than “just canceling parties.” Those parties are put together by people who get paid to do so. I’m one of those people and this might be the last two of all my work days this month being canceled because of these people. All my work has been cancelled this month because of the Writer’s Strike. Most people may not understand that but it’s reality. Just because they’re not being paid doesn’t mean they should prevent other people from getting paid. I am freelance and so are a lot of people in Hollywood, I don’t get paid very much and I don’t always have work. I really needed this. I hope they’re getting exactly what they wanted because they’re losing support from their friends.
Are you people serious with this WGA going to far nonsense? Do you not understand this is WAR? The writers must do as much as they can. Bless yourselves that they haven’t really pursued an aggressive strategy to stop productions across town. What would you have the writers do – nothing?!?!
Get real people. In striking against the Business, the writers mean business. You can be as pissed off as you want, but it’s time to realize the writers won’t go to work or take a break until they get what they deserve.
Now you’ve really done it, WGA!
Jeff Zucker at NBC is REALLY MAD at you guys. You are allowed to strike, but it is not okay to mess with GE’s profits. That’s a public company! Owned by Americans! You just gave America the finger. Not cool in my book.
- IATSE Bob
Woohoo! Go writers!
Tonight, instead of watching TV I went to the local Starbucks and finished reading the Golden Compass.
Picketing whatever is left of the GG telecast is entirely in-line with the WGA’s tactics.
NBC is being a bunch of weenies about this. As I pointed out in a previous comment in response to NBC’s suggestion the WGA give a one-year waiver or interim deal (I forget which, and it’s not relevant to my point) to Dick Clark Productions for the GGs, if NBC believes the deal is acceptable for an independent production company that works with the network, why doesn’t the network just sign the deal itself???