International Insider: Residuals In Spotlight; Venice Ends, TIFF Begins; Gaga & Mieli Deep-Dives
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Sign up here. Possible blueprint?: As is so often the case days, it all started with a tweet. Writer-director Carina Adly MacKenzie took to X (sorry, we have to) to throw a proverbial grenade into the long-running debate around streaming residuals – the U.S.
unions’ long-held desire for writers and actors to be compensated fairly when shows on the likes of Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+ perform above expectations. “Fun fact: in France, Netflix already reports their viewership to writers monthly and pays writers based on that viewership, because it’s the law there,” wrote Carina. “They literally already have that system in place.” Curiosities on both sides of the Atlantic were piqued and the Deadline TV team set out to investigate, looking into the question of whether models in France and other European nations could provide a blueprint to solve one of the biggest sticking points in the labor dispute rumbling Stateside. Patchwork: What we discovered, as ever, was a high degree of complexity, nuance and a patchwork of different agreements.
You can read our full report on European streaming residuals here but, in short, Netflix and other streamers have versions (sort of) of these success-based models in France, Germany and Sweden.
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