Chapter 923: The Strike Ends
At the same time, on the other side, the film and television producers alliance, which represents film and television producers, also hopes to solve this matter sooner, because the screenwriters will lose one more day if they return to work one day later.
Screenwriters don't just write scripts for TV and movies, they need to write scripts for variety shows, right? Broadcasts need scripts, right? It can be said that the strikes involve too many places, and the three-month-long strikes have already exhausted many places.
Dramas in the United States are broadcast weekly, and they are broadcast while filming. The advantage is that the script can be improved at any time according to the audience's requirements, and the disadvantage is that once the writers strike, those episodes will basically be suspended.
What if there are no dramas? I can only play some variety shows, or old films, or find some celebrities to have an interview, talk show or something. But can those be the same as the series? The plummeting ratings speak for themselves.
Because there is no way to broadcast the episodes, the advertiser's advertising fee needs to be compensated in the first place, and this alone is not a small number, let alone those important activities.
Take the Golden Globes, for example. Everyone knows that they are an award that is very good at publicity and knows how to package themselves to attract the public's attention. Usually they can earn a lot of advertising and broadcast fees every year with this show. But this year, without the awards party, they will have to spit out all the money they swallowed.
Knowing this, Leila's heart suddenly balanced. Although she didn't be able to bring her "Lord of the Rings" to the door in person, seeing them lose tens of millions of dollars was enough to refresh her for a while.
The news media did the math for the strike, arguing that Hollywood and the American entertainment industry lost at least $500 million over the course of three months. This is still the case that most of them have "stored grain", and they have "lost" these. If it continues, the more important Oscars or Grammys will also suffer the same situation as the Golden Globes, and the miscellaneous calculations will lose at least more than 10 billion US dollars.
First of all, the most important is the advertising fee, and the accompanying liquidated damages. If the TV movie is not filmed, the actors, directors and related personnel will have nothing to do. These people are also involved in a part of the funds, after all, it costs money to invite them. Although the work has not been done, but the schedule has been given to you, you can't let people get out of the way because you can't shoot it, right?
If they really want to do that, when the strike is over, who will continue to make TV movies for them?
In the end, the two parties engage in a bargain over Leila's turf. On the one hand, there are screenwriters who wait for food to go to the pot, and on the other hand, there are producers who lose money every day that passes; on the one hand, they hope to get good treatment, and on the other hand, they hope to let these people speak up quickly with as little as possible.
So the two sides began a tug-of-war that lasted for several days.
Leila, as the master, witnessed this "battle" with her own eyes. In her previous life, she still knew from the news that there was such a thing, and it was a novel experience for her to be able to participate in it in this life.
But what she didn't know was that this negotiation was more intense than in her previous life, and the remuneration offered by the screenwriters' union was much higher than in her previous life.
Why? Naturally, it was Laila's fault. She fed her subordinates too much, so that the screenwriters who were "hungry" with yellow muscles were so envious that their eyes were red.
But in this way, the other party is not happy. Their money is not blown by the wind, and the screenwriters get more means they get less, this is a matter of benefit distribution, and it must be discussed carefully.
This time, the words and swords made Leila that called one
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She was so addicted that she felt that she might be able to use this recording in her own movies in the future.
The Producers' Union welcomes Leila to stand up, and now they are facing not only the Writers' Guild, but also the Directors Guild and the Actors' Guild who support them.
Klaila gave her the treatment of the company's editor, and they really couldn't give it. They are not a "small company" like her, and there are not many times a year when they need a screenwriter, at most they write a movie script or something.
It's a completely different situation on their side, some even have to deal with screenwriters every day, and if it's really like the standard of Leila's company, the money they make will be bitten hard by the screenwriter, which is something they can't accept anyway.
Seeing that the discussion between the two sides is becoming more and more intense, the discussion has not been able to reach a result for a long time. Seeing that the Oscar date was getting closer and closer, Leila was furious.
Isn't it money?
"You can talk about it as much as you like, I'll sign the contract first. She directly made a contract, and it was written that the remuneration standard for the screenwriter was written.
Seeing the numbers above, the people of the League of Producers were all stunned.
It's a contract that even the most demanding people can't refuse, and once such a contract is exposed, will anyone else be willing to write a script for them?
Or someone wants to say that you can find those newcomers to the society and have no experience, they will never open their mouths and ask for so much remuneration, right?
The question is, can the price of a rookie be the same as that of a veteran? Can they create the same thing, achieve the same thing, and understand the audience's preferences?
Even if you could hire ten rookies to write a script instead of a veteran for the same amount of money, these people don't want to do that. Because that is tantamount to self-destruction, a shortcut to throw yourself into the abyss.
"No! we've already talked!" After the Producers Union stopped Leila, a group of people discussed for two hours and finally agreed to most of the Writers Guild's demands.
Just kidding, they can't let Lyra expose her contract!
For the other party's sudden relaxation, the people in the screenwriters' union were shocked. They took Leila's contract out, and they also knew that the producers' union could not agree to it all, and their original intention was to have a "sky-high price to repay the money".
They also knew that no matter how good the conditions Leila gave were, it would be of little use to the overall situation. How many screenwriters does she need a year? Even if her two studios combined, the number of films she produces in a year is not too much. So it's impossible for them to buy too many scripts, and even if the screenwriters know that they are well paid, they can't all have the opportunity to work with them.
In this case, it is the most important thing to negotiate with the producer alliance, and seeing that the other party agreed to most of the conditions at once, then what is there to hesitate!
In the next few days, the members of the various producers' alliances reformulated the standards of compliance, which greatly improved the treatment of screenwriters.
So the screenwriters, who had been on strike for more than three months, finally announced that the strike was over!
And the time came dangerously three weeks before the opening of the Oscars. It can be said that if Leila did not make a move this time, the disagreement between the two sides caused by her high treatment may really allow the strike to continue after the Oscars.
In that way, the winning plan she had been planning for several years was going to become a joke.