Producers propose new formula for writers&#39; residuals
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Management pulled back  the wraps a bit farther Thursday from its dramatic proposal for  revamping guild residuals.
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One way to escape the  rigid rules of Hollywood formula filmmaking these days is to  base your movie on a book. Adapt a movie from a best-seller  like &quot;The Devil Wears Prada,&quot; and you can make up your own  rules.
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Variety - HOLLYWOOD -- The Producers Guild of America will launch a PR campaign next week against producers taking undeserved credits on features and TV.
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Striking film and television writers agreed on Monday to allow next monthâs Grammy Awards program to be written by members of the writers guild.
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Hollywoodâs movie and television writers plan to embark on an industrywide strike for the first time since 1988.
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Hit US television series such as Heroes could be threatened by a strike of Hollywood screenwriters.
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Sometimes a TV series needs a tune-up. Tweak the plots, juice the promotion and it may end up a challenger in the ratings race.
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As writers negotiate with producers for a bigger slice of online-distribution revenues, the possibility of actors and directors joining with disgruntled scribes for a megastrike rears its ugly head. It could simultaneously shutter the production of movies, TV and videogames.
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Executives want to the end the industryâs decades-old system of payment to writers, actors and directors for the reuse of movie and television programs.
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NEW YORK  - The return of writers -- and celebrities -- to the full palette of late-night shows comes too late for studios hoping to swell support for their Oscar-nominated films and stars.
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Members of the Writers Guild of America have approved their new industry contract by a wide margin, endorsing a strategy that emphasized the health plan over the likely strike issue of DVD residuals, the union said Tuesday.
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Hollywood producers say they are willing to go to court to stop people receiving bogus "producer" credits.
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A Writers Guild leader expressed wariness over modeling a deal on a new contract recently reached between production companies and the Directors Guild of America.
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Union leaders for Hollywood  screenwriters have reached a tentative deal with film studios  and TV networks on a three-year contract worth $58 million in  raises and health benefits, both sides said on Wednesday.
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Negotiators for Hollywood studios  and striking writers have agreed to terms of a new contract  that could be presented to union leaders in days and, if  approved, end their three-month-old labor clash later this  week, two sources told Reuters on Monday.
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Details are emerging on the deal between the Writers Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. John Scott Lewinski provides links to the numbers.
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While it's not always a  foolproof barometer, in most cases when you see six writing and  10 producing credits on a movie, you can anticipate a fair  amount of confusion about the story the film wants to tell.