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‘The Wire’ Creator Rips “Greedhead” Agencies over Packaging – Deadline (2019)
- lifeisstillgood 6y agoThe base argument here is that if agencies can arrange deals with management to enrich the agent for millions, but the agent claims they cannot get a few extra dollars for the agents actual client, then things are broken sounds fair, but also sounds like a lot of similar situations across different industries - which for all intents and purposes can be called "lack of trade union". It's going to be a long road.
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- nailer 6y agoWhat is packaging? I've read a large part of the article and all I know is that it's evil.
- prepend 6y agoI share your curiosity. It’s funny how this article uses “Greedhead,” “packaging,” and “ata” as if I should know what this is. There’s lots of “fuckfaces” so Simon seems really passionate. I found this definition “in which agencies collect fees from the production studio behind a project.” [0] So I guess it’s when talent agents get kickbacks from studios. So I guess it makes sense as any money the studio pays agents means less money to writers, but it’s funny to me such an issue that would make a really good writer and journalist totally suck at describing a situation. [0] https://www.vulture.com/article/wga-hollywood-agents-packaging-explained.html https://www.vulture.com/article/wga-hollywood-agents-packagi...