Hollywood Writer’s Strike Could Create Opportunities for Starry-Eyed Philly Scribes
While Hollywood players hustle to fill holes in their production schedules thanks to a possibly lengthy Writers Guild of America strike, this may be the perfect time to dust off that crappy screenplay you started working on in college or to formulate that brilliant new reality show about bisexual dwarfs: Agents, producers and other surly big shots that have hung up on you in the past just might be willing to listen to what you have to say.
“On the film side, [the strike’s] clearly an open door for the local independent project,” says Justin Wineburgh, Cozen O’Connor’s entertainment lawyer wonderboy. “Most of those writers aren’t part of the guild, and pretty soon the distributors are going to be dying for content. It’s a great opportunity for them — they don’t have to worry about being blackballed.”
Budding Mark Burnetts should also start formulating their ideas. Wineburgh points to Philadelphia’s active reality-show production run-up, singling out four deals secured by Old City production facility Shooters Post and Transfer in just the last month.
“There’s no question that reality-based content is picking up because it’s outside the scope of the strike,” he says.
Just think that you can finally put that useless communications degree to good use.
Under orders, writers turn over scripts [Reuters]
While Hollywood players hustle to fill holes in their production schedules thanks to a possibly lengthy Writers Guild of America strike, this may be the perfect time to dust off that crappy screenplay you started working on in college or to formulate that brilliant new reality show about bisexual dwarfs: Agents, producers and other surly big shots that have hung up on you in the past just might be willing to listen to what you have to say.
“On the film side, [the strike’s] clearly an open door for the local independent project,” says Justin Wineburgh, Cozen O’Connor’s entertainment lawyer wonderboy. “Most of those writers aren’t part of the guild, and pretty soon the distributors are going to be dying for content. It’s a great opportunity for them — they don’t have to worry about being blackballed.”
Budding Mark Burnetts should also start formulating their ideas. Wineburgh points to Philadelphia’s active reality-show production run-up, singling out four deals secured by Old City production facility Shooters Post and Transfer in just the last month.
“There’s no question that reality-based content is picking up because it’s outside the scope of the strike,” he says.
Just think that you can finally put that useless communications degree to good use.
Under orders, writers turn over scripts [Reuters]
