Bloomberg reports Spielberg is not happy with Viacom and Paramount, and is looking to return to his hometown of Universal City:
David Geffen and Steven Spielberg, co-founders of the studio, are negotiating to move to NBC Universal from Viacom Inc.'s Paramount, the New York Times reported last month, citing unidentified people close to the talks. Spielberg's production agreement with Paramount ends at the end of 2008.
But for our purposes, that's not the important news. This is:
While Viacom talks with Spielberg, the company is also building up its relationship with DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., the maker of the ``Shrek'' movies ... Viacom's Nickelodeon cable-television channel will air a TV series made by the animation studio, he said.
Shows what I know. Nobody over at the DWA campus has told me squat about a new teevee series. The gang over there hasn't done anything for the tube since Father of the Pride went off the air.
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Boy, where have you been? The Penguins (from madagascar) are in production at Nick.
maybe it's time to replace youself with someone more connected.
why would anyone give up a job where you didnt have to do anything or show results?
why would anyone give up a job where you didnt have to do anything or show results?
Why indeed.
Yet the guild membership keeps returning me to office.
How does that happen?
Boy, where have you been? The Penguins (from madagascar) are in production at Nick.
Oh, I know about that. But read the article again. Fixmer says that the animation studio (DreamWorks Animation) is making a series. Not that Nick is making a series based on a DWA property.
Either Fixmer mistypes or I misread. Maybe some of both.
you keep getting elected because such a tiny percentage of the membership gets involved. the majority of members are so compliant and downtrodden because they see no benefit in being active in a guild that has absolutely no power or influence over the industry. no big mystery there.
Wow, what a bunch of whiny PMS'ing jerks. Taking potshots at unions is soooooo daring! You kids must love being corporate shills. It ain't gonna get you far if you're "below the line", kiddos.
being a corporate shill makes a lot more sense than being a union shill. at least corporations pay me. you pay the union to do nothing for you. brilliant.
if you hate corporations so much why work for them at all? start a commune and live off the land.
it's not the union that we're spewing our contempt at. it is directed at steve hulett.
let's see....dreamworks owns the madagascar franchise. there's a series being created for nick. who would do it?
bingo! it's dreamworks. and guess what? they are also developing a series based on kung fu panda characters for nick.
there....i just gave you a scoop...and guess what? i don't even work at dreamworks. i just read the trade papers.
maybe i should run for your job next time.
being a corporate shill makes a lot more sense than being a union shill.
Ah, youth. You're so cute, with your trust in a corporation that would just as soon replace you with a machine than have you there because you're in the way of the top 2% from getting even MORE money.
You need to do a little history to see why unions exist in the first place. We're heading back to that type of era, but you're too blind to see it, obviously.
Look at who has the money and who doesn't. If YOU had the money, you wouldn't have the time to be online kvetching on a blog. No, really, you wouldn't.
TAG works as well as its members put into it. Plain and simple. You want TAG to make a REAL difference? Give to it something besides endless anonymous complaints and dues and see what can happen. It might involve taking a stand, though. Which few people are willing to do these days. The spineless win as a result.
you people who are obsessed with your imaginary culture war are sad. you screech and whine that executives have more money than you. maybe they do but a lot of times they put more at risk than you. they have more expensive educations than you do. they have to do the boring shit work (and i'm not talking about dumb animation executives who got their jobs by being someones secratary i'm talking about people who actually start, build and run successful companies.)
face it your a communist. you think everyone should get the same amount regardless of what they do.
i admitted that i think unions are obsolete i wonder if you will admit that your a communist?
there....i just gave you a scoop...and guess what? i don't even work at dreamworks. i just read the trade papers.
Uh, I know this is difficult, but we reported on the Nick shows based on DWA properties a while ago.
What I was reacting to (erroneously, I think) is the Bloomberg article's assertion that DWA was doing a tv series at its studio.
It might be easier to take anonymous' Limbaugh-like rant seriously he or she followed any standard English language conventions, like capitalization and proper use of punctuation and contractions.
One thing's for sure; the average executive definitely has a better education than he or she does.
" maybe they do but a lot of times they put more at risk than you. they have more expensive educations than you do. they have to do the boring shit work.."
This completely, utterly takes the cake. Whoever you are--you think that the top 2% deserve their outrageous salaries because their jobs are (boo hoo)"boring" and their educations are "expensive"?
Jesus.
Listen: even the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and just about every damned pundit in corporate business today agrees that executive salaries are ridiculously bloated--ESPECIALLY in Hollywood.
"More at risk"? Well, it's all relative. I guess when you live in Brentwood and your real estate is worth millions and your stock options + salary is in 7-8 figures, that's a lot to "risk". But you're a fool if you believe that the majority of execs deserve their positions because they're just smarter or have a degree or something. Hollywood doesn't work that way.
hey then heres a great idea: why dont you become an executive and then you can choose to take your huge sallary and divide it up among your employees equally. that way you and the guy doing storyboard revisions will make the same money and everything will be fair.
in fact why dont you do that now? you probably have people who work under you who make less than you. thats not fair. you should just write them a check each week so that everything evens out more.
who are you to judge how much someone "deserves"? who are you to go around calling an entire group of people "evil" simply because they are businesspeople who want to make lots of money?
i thought your ideals were communist but actually their fascist. you want to judge everyone based on your specific beliefs in what is "fair".
i know there are a lot of corrupt executives out there but the corruption doesnt stem from a capitalist system it stems from basic individual human corruption.
i dont pretend to be super smart this is just basic economics. it doesnt take a college grad to realize that a socialist union system works contrarily with a capitalist economic system.
Don't worry dude; no one's going to mistake you for being super-smart...
at least i'm aware of it. you are obviously not.
Some people like baseball, they find that the game that takes place in the player's minds as equally entertaining as the one on the field. Others prefer football, and the brute force that sport requires. Still other like soccer and the sheer beauty of a well placed goal.
Me? I like reading this blog where two equally unarmed players match wits.
You people who are obsessed with your imaginary culture war are sad. you screech and whine that executives have more money than you. maybe they do but a lot of times they put more at risk than you. they have more expensive educations than you do. they have to do the boring shit work (and i'm not talking about dumb animation executives who got their jobs by being someones secratary i'm talking about people who actually start, build and run successful companies.)
What culture war? There's no culture in money. Paris Hilton and her ilk is proof of that.
People who actually start, build, and run successful companies are fewer and fewer in number, and precious few of those are getting into animation, pal.
The average garden-variety exec that's screwing things up for the rest of us depend on that little diploma of theirs like it means something in and of itself, as opposed to producing results for actually DOING something out in the real world. As crappy as the shows are on tv, at least the people who worked on them can say, "Well I did something besides take a few meetings."
And you don't know boring until you've had to sit and check a stack of x-sheets, or sit in on useless status report meetings with minor-level execs who don't want to know what's ACTUALLY going on...all they care about it is hearing, "Everything's going great!" even when it isn't.
This is all a house of cards that's gonna fall.
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