http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2007-12-12/
The Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers has posted a
counter on its website indicating that the strike has thus far cost
writers $104.56 million. The figure is based on the writers' own
estimate of overall compensation in 2006 of $1.05 billion. The counter
is apparently aimed at validating critics of the strike who have argued
that it is likely to cost writers more than they can ever hope to gain
even if their demands are met. (The WGA claims that its proposals for
new media will cost the studios $151 million over the next three years.)
Meanwhile, today's (Wednesday) Los Angeles Times reported that
dissension has arisen in the writers' ranks among members who are
unhappy that the negotiations were sidetracked by "secondary" issues,
including the WGA negotiators' demands for jurisdiction over reality
show producers and writers of animated series. Negotiators for the
writers, however, claim that the talks did not break up over those
issues and that the studios claim that they did was, in the words of one
WGA leader, "a ploy by the AMPTP ... to divide us."
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