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These Screenwriting Controversies Turned Ugly When
Screenwriters Were Screwed Out Of Credit
By Dustin Rowles
uproxx.com
Thursday, August 13, 2015
Some of you may not realize that there's a very
complicated and almost universally disliked system for
assigning screenwriting credit on a movie. The process
itself is ugly but fascinating, and often leaves writers
who spend a lot of time on screenplays out in the cold.
This is not a small deal, either. A screenwriting credit
comes not only with your name on the movie poster and on
IMDb, but potentially huge sums of money in residuals. If
the Writer's Guild Association doesn't put your name on a
screenplay, you get no money.
The thing is: The way that screenwriters are assigned
credit on screenplays often doesn't make any sense, and
when disputes arise, the WGA assigns three arbitrators to
determine credit. The arbitration rules, however, often
don't make much sense, either, and, in many cases,
writers who weren't necessarily huge contributors to a
screenplay get sole credit, while those who made the most
contributions can often get no credit at all.
Here are 13 incidents where screenwriting disputes led to
what many would argue are unfair results.
Continues at:
http://uproxx.com/movies/2015/08/screenwriting-controversies/#page/1
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