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kliras posted:give amazon some credit, there has to be at least a little bit of money-laundering to justify this It might be the old standard tax write off also. They spend all that on a show, if it's a huge hit and gets them some awards or makes them money, great, but if it loses money (and they can use the cliched Hollywood accounting for this) they get a tax write off. Think of all the Amazon boxes that get branded with their newest show on them, congrats, now they're marketing they had to pay for. Hell, the guy who wrote Men in Black gets yearly reports from the studio saying how they still are in the red on it so they don't have to pay him back end percentages he negotiated in his contract. At those amounts of money it's probably a little bit of money laundering, a little bit of tax fuckery, a little bit of dumping failsons somewhere, a little bit of getting to hang out with movie stars, maybe say you're a producer and can be the big break that a young actor or actress is looking for, there's a million reasons. None of them are really ethical,
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Remulak posted:They have other sources of money, if this gets ugly the interesting play for either of them would be to stick it to the other players and sign separately, can they do that? Production companies can sign seperate from other companies. They still have to negotiate and all that, but there's nothing stopping them. That's how Letterman kept his writers during the last strike. He owned the production company for his show and the Late Late Show. They agreed to the contract way before anyone else, so their writers could go back to work just fine.
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Dawgstar posted:I'm also given to understand that a lot more folks are organized under the Teamsters than most folks realize. Maybe even execs. Based on stories I've seen on twitter, a lot of the Teamsters are contractually protected if they decide not to cross a picket. And they do take advantage of that because lets be honest, nothing better than getting paid to sit around all day.
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