The WGA and AMPTP have reached a tentative agreement. It took 146 days to get there. And part of me, having seen what Business Affairs can do to an agreement and how much red pen it takes to get a contract to actually resemble what was agreed to verbally, I’m pretty sure it will take more days to hammer out “contract speak” in the actual Minimum Basic Agreement. But. We are there.
Writers have won.
It sounds like a real win too. Not the lackluster win of 2008. A real win in 2023. Yay!
Author and award winning screenwriter Max Adams talks screenwriting — and about some of the more than wrong advice you’ll find online and circulating in the industry.
Check out the very cool trailer for Elevator, written by my student Laila Royster. Elevator will be showing at the Sept 27 2023 red carpet student film showcase (6-9 PM) in San Antonio Texas — hosted by Alamo City Studios showcasing 10 students’ short films from the 2023 Eastside Youth Content Creators Program (EYCCP) at […]
Oyez, Saturday screenwriting labs with yours truly, author & award winning screenwriter Max Adams, are back. Yay! The Logline Lab: Saturday September 23rd 2023 8 PM ET on Zoom The Lookbook Lab: Saturday September 30th 2023 8 PM on Zoom These are Saturday weekend labs on Zoom. You want those. Hit ’em!
Today marks Day 100 of the WGA writers’ strike. I don’t have anything pithy to say about that. I just thought the “milestone” should be marked.
So SAG-AFTRA has joined the picket lines. There are only roughly 11,000 writers. There are roughly 160,000 SAG-AFTRA members. The strike lines just got much bigger. I’m sort of existential-crises-brain-frozen right now watching the general fuckery of the AMPTP and studios during the strike. But Trae Crowder isn’t. Yay! Watch.
You have been wondering where I am, right? I did not mean to go MIA on you all. I have been teaching with the Eastside Youth Content Creators Program here in San Antonio. EYCCP! Yay! Classes start early in the morning which is normal for other people but not for vampires like me and I […]
Well. We are on strike. When I say we, that is WGA as in Writers Guild of America writers. [Screenwriters are union labor. You knew that, right?] Wall Street is never going to get tired of getting rich on talents’ back. Screenwriters shouldn’t have to drive Ubers in off hours to put food on the […]
I have totally been neglecting you! Sorry about that. WordPress keeps making things weird. Which makes it harder and harder to show up here. But, let’s do this: AFW [that’s my school, students and workshoppers) movers and shakers have been hitting it. Yay! January classes are coming up: 5150 the online screenwriting workshop is full, […]
What’s up in May? Bunches. For one thing, we’ll find out whether the WGA and AMPTP come to an agreement on contracts or don’t — if they don’t, screenwriters are going on strike on May 2. That has me a little tense. The Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Competition deadline hits May 1. Ahhh! Did […]