This 'Abbott Elementary' writer's tweet sums up why Hollywood is so broken.
“In streaming, the companies have not agreed to pay residuals at the same level as broadcast, or the same reward-for-success as they have traditionally paid in broadcast,” he said. “If you write for a streamer, you get two residuals payments — one for domestic streaming and one for foreign streaming. It’s a set amount of money. If it’s a big hit, you do not get paid more residuals in streaming, whereas in the broadcast model, you do because of its success.
If that were the only point of contention, there might be more room to see both sides’ arguments here. But the writers have a very solid case for the studios to meet their very reasonable demands,
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