Last week an agent and I had a conversation about the packaging fee dispute. As a manager, my job is very similar to an agent’s — I do what they do (minus negotiation) as well as act as a creative partner and sometimes-therapist. Like an agent, I’m compensated with 10% of my... ...client’s earnings. I told this agent that I had a hard time understanding how they justified taking packaging fees for what was, from where I stood, their baseline job. The standard terms of these fees take money out of a show’s budget and back end profits, which often...

I can’t with @DEADLINE and its yellow journalism. “The WGA pitched dozens of Hollywood’s top talent attorneys today on its plan to order guild members to fire their agents if the guild doesn’t get what it wants at the bargaining table.” This fundamentally misunderstands the... ...mechanics of the process at hand — the guild isn’t ordering (or going to order) anyone to fire their agents. The constituency of the guild is going to vote to ratify a code of conduct, and if that passes then any agency that doesn’t agree to the terms is legally barred from...