6 posts and columns on Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers

Vonage Q3 Patent Settlements Widen

in News on November 8, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

Eisner Tapped for Villain Role in Upcoming Pixar Film

in News on November 7, 2007 at 5:14 pm PT

The Writers Guild of America has got it all wrong. The architect of its financial mistreatment in the entertainment industry isn’t the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers. Nor is it that lousy DVD deal it agreed to 20 years ago, which gives writers, directors and actors a combined 20 cents for each DVD [...]

Filthy Rich, but Froogle …

in News on November 1, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

Hey, Television Is Already So Bad, I Bet We Hardly Notice …

in News on November 1, 2007 at 5:52 am PT

Mediated contract negotiations between the Writers Guild of America and Hollywood producers broke off last night setting the stage for a writers’ strike that could leave sitcoms without scripts, late-night shows without topical monologues and television viewers with an even more limited choice of broadcast dross than they have now (“America’s Next Top Model,” “Dancing [...]

Coming Nov. 1 to Fox Reality: 'So You Think You Can Strike?'

in News on October 23, 2007 at 10:21 am PT

We have nothing to do, the writers aren’t here. So a guy’s gonna come in and shave me. Fifty-five minutes, ladies and gentlemen! Fifty-five minutes to go!” –David Letterman wings it during the last writers’ strike in 1988. Unscripted reality TV, box-office bombs, endless reruns–dreck. There’s plenty of it on television now and there will [...]

Coming Nov. 1 to Fox Reality: ‘So You Think You Can Strike?’

in News on October 23, 2007 at 10:21 am PT

We have nothing to do, the writers aren’t here. So a guy’s gonna come in and shave me. Fifty-five minutes, ladies and gentlemen! Fifty-five minutes to go!” –David Letterman wings it during the last writers’ strike in 1988. Unscripted reality TV, box-office bombs, endless reruns–dreck. There’s plenty of it on television now and there will [...]