Screenwriter Agency-Hopscotch For Visual Learners
Were you, like us, rendered an incapacitated, drooling mess after trying to slog through Variety's report on the agency-defection madness currently gripping the screenwriting trade? Perhaps you are simply a visual learner, in which case we've drafted for you a handy pictorial guide to the recent comings and goings of the Bedhopping Six. (We managed to find photos of all them, save the Google Image-shy husband-wife team of Cormac and Marianne Wibberley, the National Treasure writers instead represented by Nicolas Cage wielding a torch inside Mt. Rushmore's Teddy Roosevelt nostril.)
And why the sudden case of itchy feet? Posits Variety:
Writers and their agents say that the post-writers strike and pre-actors strike funk has ramped up agency raiding of rival clients...Add in stress-inducing factors — expected post-strike writing assignments that never materialized; studios squeezing quotes on the few jobs that do exist; studios having filled out slates through 2009; and the lack of greenlights until a SAG deal is in place — and the combination is a perfect storm of anxiety that has made talent, writers included, particularly susceptible to sweet talk from other agents.
Or maybe they're just promiscuous rep-sluts, in dire of a Dr. Drew® Intervention™.
- Top Hollywood scribes making moves [Variety]
4:25 AM on Fri May 9 2008
by Seth



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@mr.Man: Especially after the whole Broder merger.
TheStarterWife
Always blows my mind when ICM ain't in mixes like this anymore.
Just kicking it in the corner with APA and Gersh, I suppose, flipping Paradigm the bird.
mr.Man