More pressure is being exerted on the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers (AMPTP) to get a deal with the Writers Guild of America (WGA) done and signed. That pressure comes in the form of more news of independent filmakers cutting a deal with striking writers.
Three more indies have made their own interim contract agreements ending the Guild’s 12-week walkout against them.
The house that David Letterman built when he was the first to land a deal outside the grip of the AMPTP has turned into an avalanche of independent filmakers coming to the table with the WGA. The total now stands at 13 separate studios and television production companies to have a similar deal that was granted to Letterman’s Worldwide Pants production company. Some of the biggest names besides Pants include United Artists, Lionsgate and The Weinstein Co.
These latest agreements have been made with the independent companies GreeneStreet Films, Open City and Killer Films.
GreenStreet Films has been responsible for such diverse movies as “The Midnight Meat Train,” “Crank,” “A Prairie Home Companion,” and the television drama “Slow Burn.”
Open City Films is best known for the recent Hayden Christensen and Jessica Alba thriller “Awake.”
Killer Films is most noted for the Academy Award nominated Bob Dylan pic “I’m Not There.”
[Above photo — Ric Francis/Associated Press]
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