![]() The refusals touched on the most urgent points: raising the minimum number of writers per project and a 6% increase in the amount that screenwriters receive from so-called residuals (the compensation that a writer receives for each broadcast of the projects they have been contracted for). On Monday night the screenwriters’ negotiating committee determined that a strike was inevitable after the studios rejected eight of the 14 proposals the union had put on the table. The atmosphere over the last two days has been rather pessimistic, as neither side expects a quick resolution. An eight-episode series on a digital platform is developed by four screenwriters, when the union believes it should be seven. The scripts, moreover, are created by fewer hands. “They want to do more in less time,” he says. When he worked for Netflix, they offered the same conditions but for two seasons. NBC, the television network for which he wrote, offered 20-week contracts to work on one season of television. Ramirez-Martinez describes the rapid transformation he has witnessed in the industry. Members of the eastern section of the WGA have also been demonstrating at the studios’ Manhattan offices. The protest is not only taking place here, in the cradle of the industry, but also in New York, on the other side of the country. They wore blue T-shirts emblazoned with the crest of the organization they belong to, the Writers Guild of America (WGA). The screenwriters met at the studio gates at noon on Tuesday. Two days have passed since the start of the first Hollywood strike in 15 years. The placard he carried read, “Dog food is expensive!” “The studios need to be hit where it hurts the most: in the wallet,” said the writer of Selena and The Blacklist: Redemption, who also brought his little dog King with him to stand up for his rights. About 50 writers formed a picket line to demand better working conditions from the eight major studios that dominate the city. Alfred Hitchcock’s Citizen Kane and Remember were filmed there, but on Wednesday afternoon, another Hollywood story was being told. The 36-year-old screenwriter was sitting outside the technology giant’s headquarters in Culver City, south of Los Angeles. Jorge Ramirez-Martinez chose to protest at the gates of Amazon studios on his first day of the Hollywood writers’ strike. ![]()
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