It cant work without writers. by Zuzana Valkova

Movie is a production made by many people. Important are actors, who bring people to theaters, of course director, who is trying to manage all these people and make a good piece, and the producers, who bring money. There is hundreds of positions on the set, every person has important part in it. But Hollywood movies wouldn't exist without writers. In Europe most of the directors are also writers of their own movies, but its different in the US. These writers are incorporated in Writers Guild of America. Its organization which cares about writers and discuss the main and common issues for them. Every three years this Guild sign a new agreement with Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. This alliance includes the biggest movie studios and productions in Hollywood. But this new agreement wasn't signed last year because the studios didn't want to give authors their requirements. It was for example new media compensations, which means they would get money from the works distributed through Internet and bigger DVD residuals. I think they should get these. Its their right to get money from every single copy of their work. Another thing they wanted is that animation and reality shows writers would be covered by this agreement, because right now they aren't. Its true that reality shows should be natural, but when you pay enough attention you can see that some kind of script must be written. And thats the same thing with animation, even when the script is not a text. Many actors joined writers because they want to go back to work or just want to do good thing. Also many popular TV shows was canceled because of the strike, so now almost every American is praying for this agreement to be signed, so they can watch their shows and movies. These days writers and studios started to talk again so maybe they are near the end. Let's hope so.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080123/ap_en_bu/hollywood_labor;_ylt=AkVbcIjgDHWSfpsvmLV3LLms0NUE

by Zuzana Valkova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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