Writers spent 148 days on strike in 2023 in a print to get a greater proportion of the pie with money made of streamingAnd after all that time, some writers may still be wondering what it was worth.
One of the winnings from contract negotiations with the studios was that show and films that achieve some success on streaming platforms will qualify for a bonus on top of the existing remains they receive. Information on how these programs work must also be shared with members, but not public, so which programs have qualified since the contract came into force on 1 January 2024 has not been revealed.
But a report in The ankle On Monday, at least five streaming series have qualified for and have already received payments based on performance metric bonuses. These series are “Bridgerton season 3”, limited series “Griselda” and “Avatar: The Last Airbender” Everything on Netflix, as well as “Fallout” on Amazon Prime Video and “Ted” on Peacock.
In the case of all five series, credited writers, writers in the author room and the Pre-Greenlight room, receive a bonus of $ 9,031 for half an hour section or $ 16,415 for an hour’s long section, according to the contract. It is a bonus of 50 percent at the top of the remaining payment. Credited screenwriters on a streaming movie with a budget north of $ 30 million would also receive a $ 40,500 bonus to meet the threshold, although it is unclear if any films have crossed that threshold.
In addition, ankler reported that Naftrawhich negotiated a similar bonus based on streaming results for its artists, has also had payments to show which premiered on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Paramount+. A representative of Guilden confirmed to IndieWire that the report is correct and added that writers working with show for Netflix, Prime Video and Peacock have received viewer bonuses, which reflects the valuable and very looked the content they created for these platforms.
While only five programs have been reported to have received the bonus, the Ankler reported report that the bonus is not necessarily limited to these series. However, some of the best programs on Netflix like “Squid Game Season 2” would not qualify because it is a South Korean show without WGA Writers and other series such as “Love is Blind” that have topped Nielsen -diagrams are unwritten reality shows.
In order to get a bonus a show must stand for At least 20 percent of a streaming platform US user Within the first 90 days of it appear on the platform. In addition, ankler reported that payments must be made within 60 days after the 90-day window ending, so a number of show that premiered in the rear half of 2024 has not yet been paid out. Sag-Aftra has the same threshold, but actors get paid a bonus of 75 percent at the top of their remaining, while the other 25 percent enter a fund that is distributed to all members, something that Guilden has estimated will be worth $ 40 million annually. DGA, which did not go on strike during contract negotiations, agreed retroactively on the same terms.
While “Ted” at Peacock did not approach the show of something like “Bridgeton”, it had an easier way to reach the 20 percent threshold. Peacock has 36 million subscribers in the United States, while Netflix recently reported that in the United States and Canada, it has over 89 million subscribers of its total 301 million Subs globally. A previous estimate in Bloomberg Speculated that maybe only five percent of all Netflix shows would receive the performance bonus.
As Many authors have previously comeThese bonuses do not match any of the figures that veteran writers used to receive from broadcasts TV in residue, but the negotiations opened a pocket with money that had not been available to creators earlier in this new era of streaming.
