Nikki Finke on the Woes of Hollywood Screenwriters
by Andre Soares
The L.A. Weekly’s Nikki Finke has an interesting article on the woes of Hollywood screenwriters.
A brief quote:
"Every year, one of the major Hollywood talent agencies conducts a running tally of all studio jobs snagged by screenwriters. In 2005, there were 10 percent fewer hires than the year before. So far for 2006, there are 15 percent fewer. That’s a big drop in two years. ‘These jobs,’ said the admittedly depressed literary agent, ‘just disappeared.’ A manager joins the pity party and describes a litany of givebacks by his scribbling clients: free treatments, free rewrites, free polishes and/or free script-doctoring - all done with the hollow hope that the studio will give these schmucks with Underwoods a paying gig sooner rather than never. As for those sparse scribes offered real pay for projects, they’re buckling under studio demands by cutting their usual and customary by 30 percent. [...]
"In a word, it stinks out there for screenwriters, worse even than the fetid stench of the usual shit flung at them in previous years."
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