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Strike in Hollywood

After Hours

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The Writer's Strike: What You Think?

The writer's strike reflects broader concerns about the labor market, managers face and managing this kind of talent. Writers used to make a really fantastic living on residuals and streaming has effectively killed the residual because they don't share really any data on how many people watch something. In a way, this feels like a real reckoning for the streaming revolution, which when times were fat and happy, there was a lot of money sloshing around. And then writers are like, this is great because Netflix is like right in the checks, right?

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