SHOCKER! Striking WGA Will Announce Side Deal With United Artists Studio This Weekend
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Nikki Finke: WGA reaches deal with Tom Cruise's UA
Published 1/5/2008 at OH NO!!
... be made on Sunday in order to get maximum media coverage on Monday, I understand. My sources had no information about which UA movies stalled because of the strike might get re-started. Cruise's movies-only studio is part of MGM, which knew about the negotiations underway, I've learned. I'm told the deal was hammered out under the utmost secrecy by UA's Paula Wagner, who has long been Cruise's producing partner, and WGA leaders Dave Young and Patric Verrone. SOURCE
WGA + UA...?
Published 1/5/2008 at GreenCine Daily
"This is big. This is BIG!" announces Nikki Finke. "Because WGA sources just told me that the guild has clinched an 'Independent Agreement' with Tom Cruise's and Paula Wagner's re-started United Artists. This now means that UA has a leg up on every other Hollywood studio because it will be able to hire the striking writers."
"[A]s yet we have no confirmation," blogs Lew Wasserman's Plumber at United Hollywood. "Let's all hope for the best but not get excited until we hear something official from both parties. ...
Strike update: WGA makes an independent deal with the United Artists movie studio
Published 1/5/2008 by Ms Interpreted at No Fact Zone
Holy cow, now, we’re talking! From Deadline Hollywood Daily (emphasis in original):
SHOCKER! Striking WGA Will Announce Side Deal With Tom Cruise’s United Artists
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This is big. This is BIG! Because WGA sources just told me that the guild has clinched an “Independent Agreement” with Tom Cruise’s and Paula Wagner’s re-started United Artists. This now means that small and struggling UA has a leg up on ...
Tom Cruise's United Artists Strikes Deal with WGA
Published 1/5/2008 at RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines
This is quite an announcement as Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood continues her 24/7 strike coverage (what is she going to talk about once the strike is over?), and this time she comes with news that heads of the newly rejuvinated United Artists, Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner, have struck an independent deal with the Writers Guild of America. Here is how Finke's report reads: This is big. This is BIG! Because WGA sources just told me that the guild has clinched an "Independent Agreement" with Tom Cruise's and Paula Wagner's re-started United Artists. This now means that ...
A Deal With The Devil
Published 1/5/2008 by Perez Hilton at Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton
Tom Cruise's United Artist has struck an interim deal with the Writers Guid.
UA is the first studio to reach an independent agreement with the WGA, much like David Letterman recently did.
Hopefully other studios and production companies will follow.
[Image via WENN.]
The AMPTP begins to crack up
Published 1/5/2008 by Logan Gawain at GALACTICA SITREP
Deadline Hollywood Daily reports that United Artists, now run by producing partners Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner, has signed a deal with the WGA -- essentially the same deal David Letterman's Worldwide Pants agreed to. For this deal to happen, UA's parent company, MGM, had to allow it to happen. And so the AMPTP is fuming at MGM. ...
Good Greed
Published 1/7/2008 by Billy Mernit at Living the Romantic Comedy
... As you may've heard by now, Cruise and his partner Paula Wagner at United Artists have apparently made Hollywood history (and at least a few enemies) by making a deal with the WGA (the official media blitz is due Monday the 7th). Thus their studio would be the first to break ranks with the producers' alliance since the strike started, and (my, all this "hope" and "change" rhetoric is kinda infectious) this could very well signal a major shift in the whole debacle. ...
Cruise's United Arists Cutting Deal With WGA; AMPTP Less Than Pleased With Traitorous Studio [Breaking Ranks]
Published 1/7/2008 by Mark at Defamer
... and longtime enforcer/righthand woman Paula Wagner were busy trying to reach a side-deal with the WGA that could be announced later today, one which would allow his United Artists studio to avail itself of the services of union scribes during the strike. ...
Breaking: McLovin, Too, Eats Food
Published 1/7/2008 at Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
... United Artists Cuts a Deal Tom Cruise's United Artists has announced a side deal with the Writers Guild, finally allowing the studio to get back to work on that Lions for Lambs sequel. [Deadline Hollywood Daily] ...
Screenwriting News & Links! 1/8/08
Published 1/8/2008 by Mystery Man at Mystery Man on Film
... SHOCKER! WGA To Announce Side Deal With Tom Cruise's United Artists; Now Studio Moguls Mad At MGM's Sloan ...
