Hollywood's Writers' Strike

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Alex

There is a large quantitative difference (if not qualitative) between "writer's make $0.08 on each DVD while the studios make $19.00" and "writer's make $0.08 on each DVD while the studios make $4.75."

What about a writers' overhead? Sure they get a check for that $0.08, but that doesn't account for their costs in writing it, while the $4.75 (or whatever the figure is) does account for the studios' cost in producing it. Comparing the $0.08 to either extreme (gross sale or net profit) tells an incomplete story.

[RStar]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

What about a writers' overhead? Sure they get a check for that $0.08, but that doesn't account for their costs in writing it, while the $4.75 (or whatever the figure is) does account for the studios' cost in producing it. Comparing the $0.08 to either extreme (gross sale or net profit) tells an incomplete story.

Wouldn't their costs, including overhead, and proffit be made from the original sale of the script? I thought the DVD sales were royalties akin to bonuses, or gravey. I agree they should get a piece of the pie, however. And they deserve it just as much- if not more- than the actors, IMHO.