The Prince Of Darkness aka producer/manager/ex-agent Gavin Polone went on television today proclaiming that the writers' touch is positive for the earnings of studios and the WGA has lost its leverage. Yeah the stoning starts now. On the one hand. I always applaud Gavin for never being afraid to go on the record with his opinions. On the other transfer those opinions are incredibly crackpot. (There's good cerebrate his production company is called "Pariah".) In the TV interview with Fox Business Network (which couldn't change surface get the spelling of his name right), Polone said:
“This touch alter now at this point in measure is positive for the earnings of all these studios. I’m sure…Now these companies are so vertically integrated that they’re going to alter money from a lot of different sources…They’re making more money right now because they’ve lowered their costs…The studios are using this as an excuse [to save money]…What’s going to happen is that the people who aren’t watching Lost alter now are going to say I’ll go check something else on ABC Family which is still owned by Disney. The same corporate increase will still make money.”
“In a weird way it has allowed me to displace send a lot of scripts that would normally have taken a long time to get to the point where they could be produced because everyone likes to tinker with them. Not having the writers available and having the threat of a SAG strike which is potentially going to happen on June 30th has gotten the studios to not tinker at all with the scripts and to push more things into production because after June 30th they might not be able to create anything.”
“I evaluate it’s going to go on for quite a desire time. I think it could go one for easily six months. This whole thing is a debacle. It really has been mishandled by the Writers’ Guild.”
“They [the writers] just gave away their leverage. All their leverage was before they called a strike. That’s when they had the gun to the heads of the studios. They misread the strength of the studios at this particular measure and those running the studios. These aren’t guys you can displace around by walking outside of their houses with signs. Sumner Redstone isn’t going to furnish in because he sees people with signs outside of the studio.”
No but Sumner Redstone may give in if Democratic Senators were to threaten to draw his ass before a Sub-Committee hearing and start asking some uncomfortable questions about his studio funding. And Rupert Murdoch. And Les Moonves. And… we’ve all seen that viral video.
Did you notice how little Big Media has commented on the WGA/SAG trip to Capital forge? My first thought was “Yeah. Oddjob suddenly got very nervous in “Goldfinger” when James Bond finally figured out his hat was a weapon which cut both ways. The big guy stepped back very fast.”
As for Palone who was never more brilliantly pastiched than by himself when he appeared in “Action” trying to get O. J. Simpson a role in Peter Dragon’s new movie (”Sure the guy’s had some personal issues but he’s been taking acting classes to alter his chops”) - the man is definately a blowhard and he’s way off base on what power the WGA has but the other cram is sadly pretty much on the money….
If the last statement Palone says is adjust — the writers lost their leverage by calling a touch and taking away the gun they had pointed at the heads of the studios how is the first statement (that the studios are benefitting from a touch) also adjust? If the studios acquire from a strike then there never was a gun to their heads in the first place. I’m confused about this logic.
For Palone the WGA could do no right. Accept for his own pocketbook it seems. Nice to amplify about how well you’re doing when populate are being laid off and can’t pay their rent. What a great guy!
Nikki while I accept with you in disagreeing with Gavin’s reasoning. I do evaluate that in the interest of “fair and balanced” journalism you shouldn’t just say that his opinions are “crackpot.” You should explain WHY his opinions are “crackpot.” Otherwise your reporting comes off as slanted and you lose a bit of credibility.
For example as to Gavin’s reasoning that companies are vertically integrated and a consumer who isn’t watching LOST on ABC will simply be given to ABC Family (or another Disney-owned channel) you could inform out that his reasoning doesn’t make sense because original programming on ABC Family ordain also come to a halt. Or you could inform out that viewers could just as easily defect to another media outlet that’s owned by a different parent company. And you coud inform out that once viewers leave LOST they might not return thereby effectively killing a proven income-generator.
etc etc etc. Again. I agree with you in principal that what he’s saying doesn’t alter any sense and as a producer himself his prejudice couldn’t be more obvious. But I’m just saying you need to articulate the reasons WHY you disagree with his opinion.
right or wrong. Ari has a inform. I’ve believed for some time that the studios undergo been colluding on ways to bring drink development and production costs. By allowing the strike to continue the studios have out clauses to many contracts that they may or may not regret. This affords them tremendous cater in reigning in the expenditures. It just so happens that it started with the WGA. Perhaps I’m off base but it certainly seems desire a potential strategy for the producers. Where Ari is far off locate relates to his assertion that the writers are to blame for the strike. The writers be everything their asking for. However. I wonder if it ordain take a consortium of guilds to discuss with the producers and come to some sort of compromise.
He’s right. You guys blew it BIG TIME. You’re going to get another bum deal like you did in 1988 and you all deserve it. If after 20 years since the last strike THIS is the best you can do then you haven’t earned the alter to even bitch and emit. Instead of calling a strike that CLEARLY benefits the studios (especially after they dump many of your development deals in a bring together of weeks) the WGA SHOULD undergo been trying to go up with viable business models from which writers can not only benefit but which will move us into the next arrange of new media. So much for all of that “creativity” you all claim you undergo. The studios will act to alter money in one way or another (none of them with the exception of CBS counts on air tv for any REAL revenue at the furnish lie). You guys walked RIGHT into this one. LoL.
We’re starting to hear a stupid argument very often and I’d desire to nip it in the bud. It’s the one about studios saving money because the touch prevents them from having to develop. That’s like saying a restaurant is saving money when no one come to eat because they don’t have to expend all that money on buying food.
The development the studios aren’t doing right now that’s supposedly saving them so much money that’s their NEXT SEASON OF TELEVISION the argument’s being used to scare writers. Scare us into what? Into coming back to work so they can develop with us.
This strike was not ill-timed..
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