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Hollywood Writers Strike Officially Over!

Posted by Skowl Feb 12, 2008 at 9:27pm CST 12,080 views
CNN.com along with numerous other news outlets, are reporting that the Writers' Guild of America has officially voted to end their 3-month long strike. The WGA members' votes were tallied 48 hours after meeting this weekend to discuss the new contract regarding revenues and royalties of DVD sales and new media revenue, like internet streaming. The strike, which began on November 5th 2007, stalled numerous television shows, and even threatened to delay the production of many films, including the sequel to the 2007 Transformers Movie, which is scheduled for release on June 26th 2009. This follows last week's news of a tentative deal between the writers and the studios.

See the news on CNN.com by clicking here.

Now that the strike is officially over, writers should be geting back to work in the coming week, allowing the production of Dreamworks and Paramount's Transformers Movie sequel, directed by Michael Bay, to continue without delay.

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Comment by Darth Bombshell Feb 12, 2008
HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN! THE SKIES ABOVE ARE CLEAR AGAIN! :grin: :DANCE:
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Comment by SavageCam Feb 12, 2008
Cool. It's not that I don't trust Bay's writing (I don't) but having some dedicated writers finalize the TF 2 script makes me feel a lot better. Also looking forward to the end of Scrubs. Glad the writers got a deal they can live with.
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Comment by Liege Evilmus Feb 12, 2008
2 things to this.

1-I recently canceled my cable, so now I have to get pro active on finding a new provider

2-I just poored a fresh beer, so cheers to that!
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Comment by Agent 007 Feb 12, 2008
YES! :grin: :grin: :D :)
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Comment by UltraPrimal Feb 12, 2008
:APPLAUSE: CONGRATULATIONS :APPLAUSE:


Now get back to work you lazy bums!
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Comment by First-Aid Feb 12, 2008
Finally...

Let's get to work speculating on what's going to be in the movie now... :-?
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Comment by Heavy B Feb 12, 2008
bout time. gready bastards
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Comment by Smokescreen85 Feb 12, 2008
Awesome news! Now Transformers 2 can move full steam ahead!
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Comment by Moonbase2 Feb 12, 2008
Yay! Too bad these meatbags only cost the local economy 2 BILLION dollars and 9,000 jobs! Hooray for them! We are all winners.
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Comment by Liege Evilmus Feb 12, 2008
Agreed MB2. to many people forget about the other production staffers such as set crews, site locators, make up artists, and so on who've lost their jobs because of this.

Vindictive as I am, I would love to see at least one of these teamster unions strike now just to put the writers in their shoes.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm always happy to see hard working people get payed. However I'm also always agrivated to see hard working people suffer cause someone else is scurring for an extra buck at "screw 'ems" expence!

See I can live without TV and TF2 being pushed back a hair longer. So it's the worker in me who'd like to put that shoe on another foot!
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Comment by jgilkinson Feb 12, 2008
Fantastic news... cant wait to read about the results
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Comment by Tyrenol Feb 12, 2008
You know that it's all thanks in part to the Directors Guild for being the real grown-ups. The Writers Guild were acting like a bunch of spoiled babies; the producers and heads of the big companies were acting like teen parents who didn't know the first thing about taking care of children.

We have to remember that flesh creatures control the entertainment industry. And the central processors of these flesh creatures tend to be unstable at times. I can name Britney Spears, Michael Richards, Mel Gibson, O.J. Simpson, Paris Hilton, Tom Cruise from the front banks of my central processor.
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Comment by Liege Evilmus Feb 12, 2008
Tyrenol wrote:You know that it's all thanks in part to the Directors Guild for being the real grown-ups. The Writers Guild were acting like a bunch of spoiled babies; the producers and heads of the big companies were acting like teen parents who didn't know the first thing about taking care of children.

We have to remember that flesh creatures control the entertainment industry. And the central processors of these flesh creatures tend to be unstable at times. I can name Britney Spears, Michael Richards, Mel Gibson, O.J. Simpson, Paris Hilton, Tom Cruise from the front banks of my central processor.


(:|

and then there's people with half a brain.
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Comment by 8 bit Feb 12, 2008
Whew! That's a relief! TF2, you are go for takeoff!! (T-minus 503 days and counting).
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Comment by kuzzy Feb 13, 2008
ALLELUIA ALLELUIA ALLELUIA, heroes, transfromers, office and many other fantasic stuff is back!
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Comment by Autobot Jazz Feb 13, 2008
Yeeeeeeeesssssssssssssssssss..........
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Comment by capellamusic Feb 13, 2008
I demand placing a counter on the site's front page to start counting the days left for the movie release! :grin:
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Comment by rpetras Feb 13, 2008
Hey, if we're lucky we can get an actor's strike next!
:roll: :roll: :roll:
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Comment by imotron Feb 13, 2008
At last, and once again, money talks :shock:
Re: Hollywood Writers Strike Officially Over! (view post)
Comment by kuzzy Feb 13, 2008
imotron wrote:At last, and once again, money talks :shock:

talks? i thought it sings lol
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