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What crap. The only thing these guys know how to do is to exploit showbiz workers and shut down creativity while they act as a cartel to bully the real workers and talents in the entertainment industry. They should be embarrassed to show their faces at a mockery like this.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 9, 2009MPAA ANNOUNCES THE BUSINESS OF SHOW BUSINESS 2009
2nd Biennial Industry Summit will Spotlight the Role of American Workers in the Motion Picture and Television IndustriesWASHINGTON, DC—The Motion Picture Association of America today announced plans for its 2nd biennial industry symposium in Washington, D.C., The Business of Show Business: American Creativity at Work.
This daylong industry summit will provide a forum in the Nation’s Capital for the best and the brightest of the movie and television industries to educate top national policy and lawmakers about the economic impact of the motion picture industry, go behind the scenes with the people who help create movie magic, and show off some of the patented technology the industry develops to bring stories to life.
The Business of Show Business 2009:
American Creativity at WorkMotion Picture Industry Symposium
April 21, 2009
8 AM – 3:30 PM
Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture
Washington, DCThe invitation-only event is open to members of the media. Program details will be announced in the coming weeks.
Executives from the major motion picture studios will participate, including from Fox Filmed Entertainment: Jim Gianopulos, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; from Paramount Pictures Corporation: Brad Grey, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; from Sony Pictures Entertainment: Michael Lynton, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Jeff Blake, Vice Chairman; from Universal: Ron Meyer, President and Chief Operating Officer, Universal Studios and Rick Finkelstein, Vice Chairman, Universal Pictures; from The Walt Disney Studios: Dick Cook, Chairman; and from Warner Bros. Entertainment: Barry Meyer, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
“This important, educational event has proved to be a very effective way to bring industry insiders and policymakers together to better understand the role the film industry plays in the American economy,” said MPAA Chairman and CEO Dan Glickman. “This year’s event will focus squarely on the hard work behind motion pictures. We will highlight the jobs created, and the workers who fill these roles, throughout the day.”
Editor-in-Chief Nikki Finke - tip her here.
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Does anybody here ever give a single thought to the idea that these “big bad companies” that you all love to bash are the ones who create the jobs? True, they are far from perfect but scapegoating them for everything wrong in the business is as foolish as scapegoating the unions.
The economy is in a nosedive. Maybe the pilot and co-pilot need to work in tandem for a change.
Reminds me of one of best Arnie lines from The Larry Sanders show (paraphrased as my memory is fuzzy): never indulge a creative executive or they start thinking they are either creative or executives.
The MPAA is not the AMPTP, unsure why Nikki is deliberately blurring that line. The AMPTP are the ones forcing strikes and other labor strike, the MPAA are the ones who go to Washington with their hands out, trying to get more funding and more favorable laws.
Well this seems perfectly inline with the recent layoffs and what not. The battle cry of “Hey Tits! Let’s put on a show!” Despite some very telling business practices being aired like dirty laundry and spun into “See, we’re losing money too!”
Such crap.
well these companies are spending money to lobby washington on behalf of the motion picture industry.
why don’t you compare this active approach with the ineffective whining that seems to be coming from everyone else, including this web site.
i don’t see DHD getting any congressional attention.
and i continue to be amazed that you don’t understand that the studios are accountable to their stockholders, not the talent community or freelance below the line workers.
Re wise guy: you’re right that the studios are accountable to their stockholders, as are all publicly traded corporations. But solipsists like you fail to grasp that corporations also have a moral responsibility to the society that supports them. Hospitals are accountable to their stockholders, too, but that doesn’t mean they can let patients die if it would help dividends. Auto manufacturers who saved their stockholders a nickel per gas tank, except that the tanks exploded, were prosecuted. Studios are built on the labor, creativity, and intellectual property rights of those they employ; as Louis B. Mayer famously said, “Ours is the only business whose assets walk out the door every night.” Studios are, in fact, morally accountable to those groups you dismiss — the talent community and the below-the-line workers — because, if they are not treated right, the product will suffer, and the audiences won’t come, and then all the stock equity in the world will be worth bupkes. A responsible, successful corporation must exist within a community, not in spite of it. Even Adam Smith realized this.
Sometimes I daydream @ the studio system – under SAG jurisdiction – (No 12 hr days) – The studios would profit from the upcoming stars whom they had put under contract cheap – & the rest of us would earn something like a living. Now we are all paying for their artist development w/our own sweat & blood & $….And the few who win the actors’ lottery don’t seem to give a damn.
Stockholders don’t generate revenues…
Actually, I was at the MPAA for meetings in Washington DC today. I asked whether or not REAL crew members were going to be included in the symposium and they assured me that they are participating in the symposium (they’re supposedly speaking to some IA crew members right now).