Deadline’s Strike Talk Podcast With Billy Ray And Todd Garner
Episode 5: Featured guests independent movie producers Julie Lynn & Bonnie Curtis.
Episode 5: Featured guests independent movie producers Julie Lynn & Bonnie Curtis.
Throughout the duration of the Writers Guild Strike, Deadline is running a weekly podcast called Strike Talk. Its co-hosts are Hollywood producer Todd Garner and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Billy Ray. Via Deadline about Episode 5:
This week, Strike Talk looks at the role of independent producers. While often characterized as being pitted against writers by the companies, they are actually natural allies to the writers. The adage is it starts on the page, but often producers are the catalysts for getting projects hatched. Most only get paid when films and series commence to production. They are also the first ones to take haircuts when financiers decide budgets have to be shaved. Unlike writers, independent producers have no collective bargaining entity fighting for minimums and backends for them.
Joining in the discussion about the producer plight, and whether they should come under the same guild as writers and other creatives for more might at the bargaining table, are Mockingbird Pictures principals Julie Lynn and Bonnie Curtis. They have long lists of producing credits and enough existential scars from the development and production process to bear witness to how producers ought to be factored in as the business centers itself in the streaming age, where protection of the storytelling ecosystem should be factored heavily.
Previous podcast episodes in the series:
Todd Garner and Billy Ray are two high-level figures in understanding what’s going on with this work stoppage. I strongly recommend you add Deadline Strike Talk to your podcast list and listen to it every week.
Twitter: @Todd_Garner, @BillyRay5229, @DEADLINE.
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