The specific reforms will differ slightly because each studios embrace was done separately.
Producers Uniteds appeal it not dissimilar.
Career producers are often the catalysts for getting projects going in the first place.
At best, producers sustain themselves on half of that one-time $25,000 development deal.
That small sum paid is applied against an eventual producer fee that doesnt kick in until start of production.
Even though most every negotiation about money in Hollywood is contentious, the career producers found sympathetic ears.
But this was no charity mission.
The Producers United members were also able to convince the studios this was just good business.
But that becomes no different than fees paid to writers and filmmakers on those failed projects.
Those are considered the equivalent of R&D, commonly written off as the price of doing business.
Nowadays, producer fees have been increasingly capped.
That has made the pot of gold elusive.
