Todd’s Movie Blog

I saw a news story the other day about how how SAG struck a deal with the Writer’s Guild to produce their awards show.  That gave me pause.  Seperate deals have been struck with Letterman’s people, and deals are being struck for some of the award shows that all come out this time of year.  It seems to me that if the Guild keeps parceling out agreements for shows they’re just prolonging their own strike, with no reason for studios to really give in, they just have to wait and let an intermediary broker something for a major event, and nothing ever gets settled.  Which means the writers have already lost.  A strike is a like a war, one side has to give in, and the writer’s are doing that little by little because they can’t bring themselves to be totally ruthless.  The screen actors are supports, so they give in for them for a one time concession, which allows the studios to hold off a little while longer and fresh programming is put on the air.  I know that nobody wants to be the bad guy, but Hollywood is big business, and big business eats up the nice guys.