The following is an excerpt from SAG Member Susan Savage’s Huffington Post piece on the IA’s — and the Below the Line community’s — stake in the current WGA strike:
While they don’t get an actual residual check like writers, actors, and directors, they do get a tremendous and direct benefit from residuals. If you pick [...]

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Photo courtesy of Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood blog:

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From the current street edition of Below the Line:
Strike Stalemate
By Jack Egan
Amid rising collateral damage, the strike launched by the Writers Guild of America against the studios headed into its third week with few signs that it will end soon. The pessimistic view is that the acrimonious strike—the first writers’ walkout to hit Hollywood in [...]

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The following column appears in the November 19 edition of Below the Line. After I wrote it, the two sides announced they would resume talks on Nov. 26. We’re keeping our fingers crossed.
As we go to press the writers’ strike has entered its third week, with no end in sight. Positions have not changed; if [...]

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