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Move Over Green Envelopes, WGA Rolls Out Direct Deposits For Residuals


There’s a bar in Studio City where writers and actors can take any residuals check under $1 and exchange it for a drink. Residuals, the bar, that is, may now start seeing fewer checks from writers after it emerged that the WGA West is introducing direct deposits for the first time. The writers guild, which […]

David H. Steinberg, who created Netflix’s No Good Nick, revealed the move on social media and received many replies from fellow writers. Nina Weinman Swift, who has written Hallmark movies including A Nashville Legacy and Catch Me If You Claus, said that she had been receiving direct deposits as part of the pilot program. Daniel Pipski, who wrote George Clooney and Julia Roberts movie Ticket to Paradise and is an exec producer on HBO’s The Penguin series, added that it was “awesome” but he’ll also “miss the green envelopes”.

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