CHICAGO – Excelsior! Comic book legend Stan Lee’s famous exclamation puts a fine point on the third and final play of Mark Pracht’s FOUR COLOR TRILOGY, “The House of Ideas,” presented by and staged at City Lit Theater in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. For tickets/details, click HOUSE OF IDEAS.
BIG NEWS: DGA Makes Deal With AMPTP
Via Variety. No details yet, but you can rest assured they’ll be out later this afternoon.
As speculation grew that this deal would happen, the Writers Guild has had increased pressure. As “Battlestar Galactica” executive producer Ron Moore put it:
At one end of the spectrum, lies the possibility that the DGA has a deal in place that so closely achieves the WGA position that the writers essentially declare victory and go home. Negotiations resume quickly, the remaining writer-specific provisions are dealt with promptly, a new contract is submitted to the membership for ratification and the strike ends.
At the other end of the spectrum lies the darker possibility that the DGA comes back with a deal that is so far removed from the WGA position that the writers summarily and angrily reject it. Resentment hardens and the writers settle in for an even longer struggle with the certain knowledge that the Screen Actors’ Guild will support them come June and the industry really shuts down.
More details to come.
And So It Begins (Again)
The AMPTP posted this statement up at their web site:
WGA Response
WGA response:
Let’s just hope Battlestar
Let’s just hope Battlestar Gallactica comes back.