With rhetoric high and no deal reached, Hollywood writers have begun saying goodbye to their agents.
WGA President David A. Goodman speaks onstage during the 2019 Writers Guild Awards L.A. Ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Feb. 17 in Beverly Hills. The WGA has called for members to fire their agents after a new agreement couldn't be reached. By Steven Zeitchik Steven Zeitchik Reporter covering the business of entertainment in the U.S. and beyond Email Bio Follow April 13 at 6:51 PM Now it gets real. And ugly.
A number of writers — including Daniel Chun , Chrissy Pietrosh , Nancy Kiu , David Simon and Jay Kogen — have already gone public with their agent firings. The labor strife comes at a moment when the market for content is high thanks to new players from Silicon Valley. But the WGA says they are not being cut in on profits proportionally.
The WGA further said that even on the back-end fees, the sharing was just 0.8 percent, a number they found objectionably low. Goodman hailed the “solidarity of our membership, of people saying unless a new code of conduct is signed you can’t represent me anymore.”
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