Continuing news from the front lines of the WGA strike: commenting in the Guardian, indie screenwriter William Boyd lays out the facts of the case for a British audience and notes that in the digital age, there's much more to his outfit than Jack Warner's notorious "schmucks with Underwoods." Cinematical reports on a new study (details of which appeared in Sunday's New York Times) that suggests studios are losing money thanks to back-end-loaded participation deals, where big-name stars, directors and producers eat up such a large percentage of a film's total revenue that only the biggest movies turn a profit. Monika Bartyzels argues that the writers are only a scapegoat for studios looking to blame someone else for their own short-sightedness. And in Wired, John Scott Lewinski speculates that the strike might be just what the studios are after to use legal wrangling to get out of top-dollar contracts and high-end development deals. — Leonard Pierce
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