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“Luckily, ‘The Sopranos’ ends this season in March,” the same month the new season begins airing. “All the shows will have to stop,” Suna said.
MOVIES STRIKE AND REEL TV
The four TV shows employ a total of about 1,600 people. Two other shows in the works at Silvercup, produced by Paramount and scheduled to air on CBS and Fox next season, already have started filming in anticipation of a strike. The West Coast contingent represents about 10,000.Īt Silvercup Studios in Long Island City, Queens, where scenes from HBO’s “Sex and the City” and “The Sopranos” are filmed, the outlook was not so sunny. The East Coast branch of the guild, based in New York, represents about 4,000 writers. “We’re very optimistic we’re going to get a contract” before the expiration, said Mona Mangan, the executive director of the Writers Guild East. 1, you’ll see the start of an impact – a de facto strike. “No one will green-light or start a project that’ll be affected by a work stoppage,” the source said. Producers will seek to hold down wage and residual increases, said a source familiar with the alliance’s position. Motion picture production and services were among the largest job growth categories here from 1992-98, more than doubling in size, according to the city Labor Department.Īt issue for the writers is pay, control over rewrites and how they will be credited in the final product.
MOVIES STRIKE AND REEL MOVIE
While the movie and TV business is far smaller than the financial services industry, the city’s largest, the publicity the city gets from it has been priceless in terms of tourism growth. Fast-forward two years – and given the city’s longstanding and increasing allure as a must-have film location – those amounts will grow. In 1999, TV, film and commercial production contributed $5 billion in direct spending, according to a study prepared for the city controller’s office and the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting.įeature films accounted for $2 billion in spending in 1999 TV for $2.ġ billion commercials for $800,000 and other projects, such as industrial films, $100,000 according to a Boston Consulting Group study.īut the total impact of TV and film production on the city’s economy was double the amount of location shooting alone – $10 billion a year, at least. The most noticeable would be on such New York-based programs as “Rosie O’Donnell Show,” “The View,” “Late Night With Conan O’Brien,” “Late Show With David Letterman” and “Saturday Night Live,” as well as soaps including “One Life to Live” and “Guiding Light. If no agreements are reached, forget the lights, camera and action – many films and TV shows not in summer reruns would go dark. Negotiations are expected to start tomorrow between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance for Motion Picture and Television Producers for a minimum basic agreement that would take effect May 2.Ĭontracts covering members of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists expire June 30. The movie and TV business brings in as much as $10 billion a year to the city economy and employs as many as 70,000 New Yorkers, including those directly involved in the shooting and indirectly through supporting businesses.
MOVIES STRIKE AND REEL SERIES
To many New Yorkers, moviemaking in the city means messed-up parking, people with walkie-talkies telling you to move along and vans with engines that idle all night long.īut a series of nationwide strikes threatening to silence the TV and film industries this year could make the city nostalgic for the inconvenience by hitting it right where it lives – in the pocketbook.
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