✍️ Writer’s Quotes to Live By
“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
— Louis L’Amour
✍🏾 Universal Nabs New Comedy From “Booksmart” Duo
Universal’s new project finds “Booksmart” director/writer duo Olivia Wilde and Katie Silberman will team up again for a yet untitled holiday comedy at Universal Pictures.
The studio recently won rights to the pitch in a heated bidding war between six studios, according to Deadline.
Both Wilde and Silberman are both slated to direct and write the screenplay. This will be their second outing together after this past May’s “Booksmart” the raunchy teen comedy which earned rave reviews, but was a dud at the box office.
Silberman’s most recent projects include the hit Netflix romantic comedy “Set It Up,” the Rebel Wilson vehicle “Isn’t It Romantic,” and the upcoming “Most Dangerous Game” for Netflix, which will reunite her “Set It Up” duo of Zoey Deutch and Glen Powell.
✍️ ICM claps back at WGA “Packaging Fees” Claim
Long story short, ICM is fed up with all the fuss behind the WGA and their nagging over “Packaging Fees” and have filed a motion to dismiss an anti-packaging lawsuit calling the guild’s claims flat out “absurd.”
Get your popcorn ready ladies and gentlemen we got ourselves a standoff.
With WGA throwing down the gauntlet, they’re firing agents and demanding them to back off of packaging fees- a portion of backend profits on series and some films that are paid to agencies by the production entity.
ICM has counter acted hoping to get rid of the WGA’s entire argument that WGA lacks the standing to sue the agencies for breach of fiduciary duty because the agency has no obligation to the guild itself.
ICM is coming out of the gate hot with receipts and they’re not taking “NO” for an answer any longer. They’re hoping to get the arguments the WGA has been harping on for months, thrown out, so they can go back to “BUSINESS AS USUAL”.
We’ll keep you posted on the happenings as a hearing in the WGA case is set for Sept. 19th.
✍🏿 Question: Is Harassing a Writer Due to Their Work Ever Warranted?
Ask any fan of HBO programming and they’ll tell you Game of Thrones was a massive let down to a vast majority on twitter….They seriously won’t shut up about it, while some of the complaints ranged from “the writing sucked” to “felt rushed” or they didn’t touch on the “Icepocalypse” storyline. They can all agree they have fury towards writer/show-runners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss.
The question I’m proposing: “is this behavior of attacking writer's when and *IF they butcher a beloved property, make it *OUR RIGHT as fans to attack them online?”
Personally, I don’t think so, but I also believe that as a writer you do owe a responsibility to not ignore and make jokes of the source material. GOT material was so bad, that the two show-runners declined to attend Comic-Con at San Diego, leaving the show’s beloved actors to face the music alone.
What are your thoughts? Do they deserve the hate or is it not warranted?
P.S. A project that angered me this year would have to be the misfire called 2019’s Shaft. That movie was just downright AWFUL and the dialogue was so busy making jokes, it totally missed the point of the legendary SHAFT. (IMO)
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