Showbiz covers the industry's working mechanics: agencies and management firms, packaging, commissions, holding deals, option payments and how a job is actually secured. Reporting explains the structure before the anecdote. Written for people inside the business and for readers curious about what happens between an audition and a contract.
A star's agency doesn't just take a cut of the paycheck; for decades the biggest firms also collected fees straight from studios, until the Writers Guild forced that model out.
For decades, talent agencies collected a cut of a show's budget for assembling its cast and writers instead of commission from their clients — here's the mechanism, and why the Writers Guild spent three years dismantling it.
Be A Referring Lawyer Jim Vickaryous An old friend invited me to dinner . We originally met on opposite sides of a case and found common cause as lawyers as it worked its way through the court . We had not seen each other for a long while . At
The standard split is public knowledge. What happens to the money, and who keeps a claim on it after a writer leaves, is the part worth reading closely.