Kevin M, Thursday (12/20):
>
> The Producers Guild is a lost cause in terms of putting a cap on 
>> superfluous producer credits. A well run production requires at most two 
>> producers, one to oversee the creative aspects and another to oversee the 
>> organizational/financial aspects... sometimes one person can handle both 
>> sides of the production, but two are really what is required. But now 
>> actors get producer credits, as do their managers and lawyers, as do the 
>> relatives of the head of studio, as do the catering crew. Credits are seen 
>> as free contract negotiating ploys, but it ultimately hurts a production, 
>> tarnishes the credibility of the actual producers, and opens up a lot of 
>> people to civil litigation. You and I both know that Spielberg neither 
>> knows nor cares what’s going on at a crummy little CBS procedural, but now 
>> he’s getting dragged into it. And don’t misunderstand me, Dushku has every 
>> right to drag him into it as his name is right there in bold text, but his 
>> name is only there because CBS knows his name in the credits gives viewers 
>> a false sense of value.
>>
>
> bermuda999, Friday (12/21): 

>  
>
>>
>> This is a serious question, if you know the answer: Does everyone listed 
>> as a producer receive a producer's fee, or can you hand out the title 
>> without the cash?
>>
>
Only the Guild knows for sure.

B

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