The impending strike by writers against Hollywood producers this summer looks to be another well-contained “catastrophe,” prophecies to the contrary notwithstanding. For months now, hardly a day has gone by without a story somewhere on the allegedly impending apocalypse. Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America paints a dire […]

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It’s not quite a counter-proposal, more like the stuff we see out of Washington: A “study group” is announced –this time by the studios — to come up with ostensible “solutions” to compensating folks whose work winds up in new media outlets both known, and, of course, yet-to-be-discovered.
The story first showed up in Variety, a […]

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BTL’s own Man in Havana — or at least, outside Toronto — Scott Lehane, sends word from up north, via this ACTRA announcement:
Canadian performers, by a record return vote of 98.7%, have ratified the new Independent Production Agreement (IPA) negotiated with the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA) and the Association des producteurs de […]

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Not over anything strike-related, but rather, over the definition of “spouse” when it comes to pensions and other benefits. This as reported to the BTL blog by production coordinator J. Graigory:
The City of West Hollywood (recently) passed a resolution calling on the AMPTP and
IATSE to correct the definition of “spouse” in the MPIPHP Pension […]

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