The strike of American drama screenwriters, which has lasted for 5 days, has further escalated!
——The screenwriters and the platform failed to negotiate again, and the major platforms sold miserably and cried poorly, saying that they could not pay the salary required by the screenwriters, and actor Adam Conover, who has participated in dramas such as "Bojack the Horseman", directly came forward to shout the TV station, exposing the annual income of the senior management of the parent company of the TV station, bluntly saying that it was ridiculous for them to shout poverty.
According to Adam, Warner Bros. Exploration alone earns $250 million a year, enough to pay the salaries demanded by more than 10,000 screenwriters.
If a company's top executive gets 250 million a year, that's enough to prove that the company can make money, and as far as Adam knows, the profits of these companies are constantly rising.
However, the screenwriters who provide scripts for the company have less and less income, some cannot even pay rent or mortgage, and some screenwriters even need to receive relief to live.
More than one screenwriter came forward to confirm Adam's statement, the American drama "Bear Restaurant" has a score of 8.5, but the screenwriter Alex only has 6 US dollars (about 41 yuan) in his bank card.
In fact, the current experience of American drama screenwriters is precisely because in recent years, the global film and television industry and even the entire entertainment industry are facing a bottleneck period that is difficult to break through: short videos impact traditional media, audience loss, TV station influence weakened, the industry can not reduce investment, everyone enters the cold winter together.
-- Warner Bros. Search Company, which opened $250 million a year to senior management, and cut thousands of positions; Copyright madness Disney is 45 billion in debt and has also recently laid off thousands of employees, and from this point of view, they can really call poverty.
The salaries of American drama screenwriters do not rise but fall, it can be said that it is a chain reaction under the global film and television winter, 37-year-old screenwriter Brandon has just finished a TV project, still has no food, revealed that he is now living on aid, and is ready to live with his family - a familiar plot, isn't this the failure of North Drift to return to his hometown to gnaw the old?
Before we also had screenwriters interviewed by the media, talked about the current situation of the domestic film and television industry, bluntly said that the screenwriter is just a typewriter that sorts out the opinions of all parties, without any right to speak, any person can propose opinions to change the script, and it is even more dismal in terms of income, the screenwriter handled 20 projects in 18 months, and finally earned 50,0200 yuan, with an average monthly income of 2788.888 yuan, and a monthly income of less than 3,000.
Knowing this, it is not difficult to find that whether it is an American drama or a domestic drama, everyone seems to have fallen into a vicious circle that cannot be solved: the low impact level of screenwriters' income has led to the quality of the work getting worse and worse; The poor quality of the works does not attract the audience, resulting in a worse and worse market environment; The market environment is getting worse and worse, the capital cannot make money, resulting in less and less investment, and finally not only screenwriters, but even all aspects of the film and television industry, must be downgraded in consumption.
The screenwriters themselves also know that the script written in two or three months following the trend cannot impress the audience at all, but it is a pity that they are powerless to change.
Just like the strike of American screenwriters, which mainly affected some talk shows and soap operas, even if star Drew Barrymore came forward to support the screenwriters, the platform still quickly made an alternative.
Netflix, for example, said that they can broadcast dramas from other countries, including TV stations, and bluntly said that they have a series of programs that have been produced to broadcast.
Thinking of 2007, the screenwriter of the American drama also went on strike once, which directly affected popular projects including the movie "007: Quantum of Solace", and even "007: Quantum of Solace" starring Daniel had to participate in the screenwriting, resulting in a sharp drop in the quality of the entire movie, which was Daniel's last appearance as Bond, leaving irreparable regrets.
In the end, it can only be said that some capital is too arrogant, while giving the top management a high salary of 250 million, while laying off a large number of employees, refusing to give screenwriters reasonable salaries, not caring about the quality of their works, gradually destroying the foundation of the industry, which is also a performance of disrespect for the audience.
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