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Producers United: Some Of Hollywood’s Most Prolific Producers Are Taking A Stand To Protect Future Generations: “We’re Talking About Basic American Rights Here”
Producers United: Lorenzo di Bonaventura leading an effort by some of Hollywood's top producers to ensure financial stability for future generations.
While acknowledging they have made a good living, the collective aims to address the fact that producers typically spend lengthy periods in development with little to no pay or benefits. Hollywood is coming off a crippling strike with another potential labor standoff with Teamsters and IATSE in July, and yet, without the muscle of a union with collective bargaining behind them, producers stand alone. While writers and everyone else get paid, career producers who oversee the whole process are expected to survive on half of a $25,000 development payment — the only thing sustaining them for a period that could may be anything from, say, nine months, to more than a decade.
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