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Originally Posted by Mutt
writers do NOT get well paid in Hollywood -
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The writers for Leno etc get a base pay 10X that of the other workers on the show. Their strike is putting those people out of work. That's not even counting the so called "crappy" residuals they complain about. Those other workers don't get residuals. Sorry you're on the WRONG side of this issue.
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considering the odds of ever making it out there are very steep it's only when you have written something that actually gets produced, which is a small % of projects, and then goes on to make big bank that a writer makes the bigger money.
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So what it's like that in every business. even this one. Doesn't mean you subsidize the motherfuckers.
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i sold a screenplay in 1986 to a company called SLM Pictures, they produced Revenge of the Nerds and at the time was paid the standard Screenwriters Guild fee for a screenplay - trying to remember how much it was - it was either 36K or 46K - I had a writing partner and split it with her - so for one year's solid work I made about 20K. And the odds of getting a screenplay sold are very long. The movie was greenlighted to be produced and went into pre-production but the financing fell apart on it and then it got sold off to another production company who re-wrote and packaged it - script floated around for years, it never was produced.
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Good for you you got paid $20K for writting something. Which in today's $$ is about $40K what the average factory worker busting his ass with hard labor earns working 2000 hours a year.
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the writer is arguably the MOST important part of any production - 'if it ain't on the page it ain't on the stage'.
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If there isn't a stage then it doesn't matter does it? At any rate if a writer has a job then he's getting paid and getting paid well. However "crappy" the residuals he's getting them. The other workers aren't getting them.
When this strike is over and the writers get their pay increase and you pay extra for a DVD or a download or a movie ticket I do NOT want to hear you bitch about the price because I can guarantee you where the studios are going to get the money for this extra pay. THE CONSUMER. Who make considerably less than these writers.
Oh and if writing pays so suck then maybe those writers need to find another vocation. If writers are often out of work then they can GET ANOTHER JOB. How come this concept makes perfect sense in the rest of the world but yours? There's a lot of people with 2 jobs because their first one doesn't pay enough.