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The Economics of Bad Films

The Political Orphanage

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The WGA and the Writer's Guild

The writers fear that the studios are trying to destroy their union. That's not true. They're trying to weaken the union because that's what they, the, the 3D chess is about in any kind of like collective bargaining. One area would be arbitration or script. The studios don't want to bother with that. And sometimes writers get very, very pissed off in the outcomes of an arbitration. A classic example was Quentin Tarantino. When Tarantino wanted a screenplay writing credit on natural boring killers, Oliver Stone made the film. He got into a big fight about WGA sided with Oliver Stone. But guess what? Quentin Tarantino did not join the WGA. He is not

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