After grueling months with dual strikes leading to lengthy work stoppages in Hollywood, the Writers Guild of America was crowing over the new deals struck with the studios. Higher salaries and better royalty payouts were agreed to, along with a number of other concerns, and it appeared the struggle with months of no paychecks had ultimately been worth it as it was said to have led to a happy ending.
Today though it appears a plot twist has been added, as now writers are finding there is far less work available in the entertainment industry. Motion pictures are not being shot at the same pace, television pilots have dwindled, and new projects are not mushrooming in the fashion they were just a couple of years ago. What exactly is happening?
On our recent episode of The Cuture Shift we discussed a telling statistic. Since the strikes ended in California they measured a steep drop in…
