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WGA Seeks First-Ever Foreign Film Residuals In Contract Talks With AMPTP
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deadline.comBy David Robb Labor Editor The WGA wants a piece of the foreign box office – a residual its members long have been denied when their feature films are shown overseas. “When residuals for feature films were first negotiated in 1960, the foreign box office was minuscule,” the guild’s negotiating committee said today in a message to members about its ongoing negotiations for a new film and TV contract. “Today, the foreign box office is three-quarters of the worldwide total.
It’s long past time for screenwriters to share in the generated revenue and receive a foreign box office residual, just as writers do with foreign television.” For the past 60 years, writers received no residuals when their films are shown in foreign markets.
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