Chapter 495 Strike Impact

After the Writers Guild announced the strike, all members of the Writers Guild began to refuse to go to work, but took to the streets to march and gather in front of the six giant companies to demonstrate and rally.

The reason why many soap operas are popular is because its script is not completed at one time, but in the form of shooting and writing, the plot development is to the audience's liking, and the script is continued according to their feedback. Similarly, once the screenwriters strike, Hollywood's blockbuster plans will be put on hold; Talk shows and talk shows that are broadcast in real time are stopped; No one wrote the words of the major award ceremonies and evening parties...... Once the screenwriters strike, the entertainment industry will come to a situation where there is no rice to cook.

In fact, the drama of the screenwriter's strike is slowly unfolding along this trajectory.

On November 5, the first day of the strike, TV interviews and talk shows were rebroadcast.

On November 7, dramas such as "24 Hours" and "Office" were affected.

On November 9, popular American dramas such as "Desperate Housewives", "Lost" and "Heroes" stopped broadcasting.

On November 9, more than 4,000 people took part in the march.

These news items are on the front page one by one, making countless melon-eating viewers watch the excitement and gossip, but there are no favorite episodes to watch, and the film and television production companies are overwhelmed.

The fall out of the screenwriters with large companies will directly affect the normal operation of the TV industry in the United States, and if the strike continues for a long time, it will also affect Hollywood. CBS, NBC many film and television dramas were forced to stop filming because of the broken script, and most late-night talk shows are currently struggling to support the situation by replays, but they may also be completely suspended within a week. If the strike continues, many prime-time plays will be cut off at the end of November, and many stylists, make-up artists and photographers will lose their jobs. Today, about fifty or sixty hit TV series are on this long blacklist: "24 Hours," "Desperate Housewives," "ER," "Prison Break," "Hero," "Dr. House," "Lost," "The Simpsons," "CSI," "The Office," and more. Because of filming and broadcasting, these episodes are likely to be delayed or forced to "slim down".

MM TV Network's ace dramas "Grey's Anatomy", "Ugly Betty", "The Big Bang Theory", "Modern Family" and other ace dramas were booked in advance for a whole season, so that the TV station had TV to play, keep customers and advertisements from losing, but variety shows and talk shows were all stopped.

In addition, as soon as they go to work every day, a large number of screenwriters stand guard at the door, holding up signs and chanting slogans, what "pay back my hard-earned money".

"Reasonable working hours, reasonable wages".

"We're going to work" or something, the impact is very bad.

There are more than 500 screenwriters under MM, and the salary is also good, and many people are proud to enter MM, but under the order of the screenwriters' union, they still joined the strike.

For those ordinary members, at least more than half of them have been unemployed for many years, and there is no job at all, so the strike is dispensable, but for those who have jobs, the impact is greater, and all aspects have suffered huge losses, such as wages, bonuses, and benefits, and in the case of a strike, the company will not pay them.

And Mark also ordered that all the company's employees, if they demonstrate at the door, will not renew their contracts, they have to go to other companies to demonstrate, and employees of other companies come here to demonstrate, at least to avoid the embarrassing situation of acquaintances meeting.

But at the beginning of this strike, it was destined to have a huge impact on the industry.

2006 can be called a prosperous year for Harry Potter fans, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" was released, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" was released, and under the huge promotion of the film's early publicity, the sixth part of "Harry Potter" hit a shocking sales, Rowling, but Dan Brown.

"The Da Vinci Code" is a work full of controversy and expectations, with a lot of religious elements and subverting the foundations of Christianity, which makes the film adaptation of this work full of gimmicks, as long as it can be argued, it is a success, and it turns out that the protests of the church and the boycott of the believers are nothing more than free publicity for the film, and the film quickly exceeded the $700 million mark worldwide after its release. And as its sequel, "Angels and Demons" was also put on the agenda for the first time.

As long as you read the original book of "Angels and Demons", you will find that the use of a large number of religious elements in the story is no less than that of the previous work, and the screenwriter Goldman must be careful. Using the means of so-called scientific revelation, The method of solving the puzzle and exploring to interpret the mystery of Jesus and the Vatican in detail, this is definitely a double load of mental and physical strength, even if Mark asked Gosman to work day and night to complete the work, Gosman agreed to do so, but in the end Gosman could not deliver the goods within the time required by the film company, so he missed the last time before the screenwriter's strike, this much-anticipated film has the possibility of abortion, the result is taken over by Mark, Gosman only collected a deposit of one million, and the remaining four million and the box office share are in vain, and the loss is huge。

There are also "007: Quantum of Solace" and "The Chronicles of Narnia 2", which almost misperformed

As we all know, Paul Haggis is one of the most famous screenwriters and directors in Hollywood, and the smooth transformation and big sales of "Casino Royale" undoubtedly caused a lot of pressure on "Quantum of Solace", and in the end he failed to preemptively complete the details and lines of the script before the screenwriter strikes.

And the situation of "The Chronicles of Narnia 2" is not much better, "The Chronicles of Narnia 1" has set off a rare magical climax since "The Lord of the Rings" in the world, and the release of the sequel is not only an important part of Disney's summer strategy, but also the top priority that affects the development of the entire series, fortunately, the strike did not last for 5 months like the last time, and after the resumption of work, the crew worked at full speed to shoot and produce the film, and finally ensured that the film was released on time.

The worse thing is the "The Adventures of Tintin", which disappeared directly, although the three screenwriters quickly ran past the deadline for the strike when they got a salary of 8 million US dollars, but the filming of the film was still delayed, and the delay of this film is not just a news from the entertainment tabloids, Spielberg's beloved work was not made, which made the big director angry, and it directly became the fuse for the separation of DreamWorks and Paramount.

The Lord of the Rings prequels "The Hobbit" and "Spider-Man 4", which were induced by the strike to stop filming

It can be said that these two films were in a stormy stage before the strike began, and the dispute between Peter Jackson and New Line Pictures was enough to fill the entire page of any entertainment weekly in Hollywood, when he finally reached a cooperation and sharing agreement with New Line, the question of whether "The Hobbit" was one or two episodes was deadlocked, and "Spider-Man 4" was in a similar situation, although the company had already claimed to make the series to the seventh part, but everyone knew that there were no more than three truths, "Spider-Man 4" The script is only in the framework and conception stage at this time, and the discord between the two leading actors and the conflict with the company directly affect the adaptation of the script of the subsequent works in the series.

So the two films were shelved as a matter of course, in fact, counting these two blockbusters is a bit exaggerated, Bi Jing and they have not yet completed the project, but it is certainly certain that they will be affected.

Several blockbuster investment films have been postponed due to the impact of the strike, and there are countless small-budget films that have been killed by the strike.

Because of the large-scale withdrawal of screenwriters, the first time the film and television industry in the United States was hit was the TV drama market, in the first quarter of the United States, almost all the first-line dramas were suspended, although there are talk show programs to support, but it is inevitable that a large number of viewers who should be staying by the TV during the break flow to the cinema, at the same time, the vacuum period of TV drama production has also made more TV drama actors begin to get involved in big screen production, and many TV superstars under MM have been compensated by movie roles to ensure that their income is not reduced during the TV shutdown。

I am afraid that there are also reasons for this, so that the TV drama audience has a more sufficient reason to enter the theater, the depression of the TV market, it is when the cinema is in full swing, the major film companies have increased the number of films released, such as Mark's Venice Film Festival god "No Country for Old Men" is confirmed to be released in December.

The screenwriters' strike, of course, broke the producers' union, and countless lobbyists and agents who thought they had status and status began to mediate back and forth, hoping to resolve the crisis, but the development of things was far from being as simple as imagined, several negotiations ended in failure, and the film company insisted on its own position, and it can even be said that it had a tough attitude, after all, the screenwriter's requirements would lead to film shooting, The cost of distribution and other links has risen, and why no one has joined in the production party when investing, and when the cake is divided, we are clearly marking the price, and we are not in arrears, and we will not do it if we don't want to do it.

They firmly believe that the impact of the strike is two-sided, and that the writers' union will be more difficult to endure, like the last five-month general strike in 1988, they achieved their goal, but they lost a lot of money, and there was a lot of internal debate.

In the face of pressure from the Screenwriters' Union, the Producers' Union also mobilized, and they did not allow any company to reach an agreement with the Screenwriters' Union alone, and now they openly claim that they will not accept the unreasonable demands of the Screenwriters' Union, so after the strike, the relationship between the two sides suddenly became tense.