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Honestly, if I'm one of the studios, I would break rank with the others and negotiate my own deal with the unions. You may lose money in the short term but you'd easily make it back when you're the only one coming out with anything new a year from now.
originally posted by: Threadbare
a reply to: shooterbrody
The average member of SAG makes $40,000 a year. The average member of WGA makes about $50,000 a year. Sounds pretty middle class to me.
This is very much a battle between the middle class and the upper class. And if you can't see that, I don't know what else to say.
There is no shortage of good content or talented writers.
There's a shortage of producers willing to spend dollars on something that the robot public isn't accustomed to or whose attention span might snap.