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Packaging isn’t as big a problem in Canada. There are fewer productions; our series and films generally cost less ; and there’s no studio system. But many Canadian agents will admit privately that they’ve participated in cross-border packages. And about 500 WGC members are also in the WGA, so they’re impacted directly.
The WGA is asking the ATA to commit to an “agency code of conduct” that eliminates packaging, along with agents acting as producers via affiliate entities. As of Tuesday, the two sides were talking. But it’s going to be tough to get agents to sign, because, well, they like living in hillside mansions with infinity pools.
As everyone there will say to you ad nauseam, Hollywood is a business of relationships. The writer/agent relationship is often highly personal, formative and lasting. They believed in you when no one else did. You go to their weddings. If agents don’t sign that code of conduct, writers will have to choose: their fellow guild members versus their professional friends. Their morals versus their careers. “It’s the writers who will be caught in the middle,” Parker said.
“All of this might have happened last week,” the e-mail read. “Instead, real negotiations begin now, as they always do, with a ticking clock. It is your power – membership power – and your willingness to use it – that has brought us this far. Conflicted practices and misaligned financial incentives have plagued our relationships with our representatives for too long. We sincerely hope that the agencies will now become our true partners in a joint effort to deal meaningfully with both.
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