Studio-based production companies are sharing horror stories about packaging deals, according to the WGA’s latest communique to its members. “These stories provide even more evidence of how p…
’s latest communique to its members. “These stories provide even more evidence of how packaging fees hurt writers and drive decision-making in a way that places the agencies’ interests above their clients,” the guild writes.
Packaging fees along with agency affiliated production companies are the guild’s two chief concerns in what is now an 11-week standoff between the WGA and the Association of Talent Agents. The guild says both represent conflicts of interest for agencies who rep their members. “At a studio, I have had writers come with an idea,” said another. “We pair them with one of our overalls, sell it to the network, we cast it and find the director—yet the agency still gets an episodic fee and more backend points than the writer they represent.”
“As a producer I was working with a writer who had multiple projects in the works,” said another. “We were set to produce her passion project, which she had told us she wanted in first position.
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