Friday 2 May 2008

Superheroes go back to work

Superheroes go back to work



Comic-book-hero flick company Wonder Studios has reached an lag agreement with the Writers Social club of America, enabling striking Hollywood writers to go back to work on their projects.
For Marvel, it substance that work can buoy take up on 'Ant Man', 'Captain America', 'Thor' and 'The Avengers'.
'Hulk' and 'Iron Man' were already in production and were not affected by the strike; they ar typeset for release later this year.
Flick and video studio Lionsgate, Hollywood's biggest indie producers, has as well reached an interim agreement with the lodge.
Upcoming Lionsgate films include 'Rambo', 'The Eye' and 'Saw 5', while its tv series admit 'Weeds', 'Mad Men' and a newly exhibit, 'Fear Itself'.
"The writers' issuing seems on its way to being solved, and Lionsgate felt it was an important clock time, peculiarly in scene of our TV series, to have our writer partners get back to work," Lionsgate said in a command.
"We wait forrad to a broad industry agreement soon," said a company example.
Writers already have reached lag deals with studios including United Artists, the motion picture production house backed by Gobbler Cruise and The Weinstein Co, persist by media-mogul brothers Harvey and Bobsled Weinstein.
Writers and producers resumed negotiation this hebdomad, aimed at ending a about three-month hit that has stopped to the highest degree prime time television production and just about hope smaller deals will put pressure on the big studios.