Nearly three months into the WGA’s standoff with Hollywood’s talent agents, WGA West president David A. Goodman says he’s “surprised” that more midsize and smaller agencies haven’t broken ranks wit…
and signed the WGA’s new Code of Conduct. From the beginning, the guild has said that it intended to “divide and conquer” the agencies, but so far it has seen only limited success.
“I don’t know how I expected it to lay out,” he added. “I think now that it’s laid out the way it has, it makes sense for the agencies to sort of hang together in the hope that we split; in the hope that we fold, and that they can keep the status quo. I think, though, that we have opened up some really important questions, and in some ways there’s no going back on certain issues about what packaging is – that a packaging fee shouldn’t be a given for an agency.
On the positive side, Goodman said he was surprised how well staffing season was pulled off through members helping other members to find jobs. “Staffing season happened – most of the stories I’ve that heard from writers; I’ve heard a couple of negative stories – and again, it’s all anecdotal. Most of the stories I’ve heard were extremely positive.
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