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Amazon Settles With WGA for $4 Million-Plus Over Unpaid Residuals for Writers

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reported the news of the Amazon settlement.In early August, the WGA said it had secured $42 million in unpaid writer residuals from Netflix after an arbitration ruling was handed down regarding the Sandra Bullock horror film “Bird Box.”“Netflix argued the WGA should accept a substandard formula the company negotiated with DGA and SAG-AFTRA.

After a hearing, however, an arbitrator determined differently: that the license fee should have been greater than the gross budget of the film,” read the WGA West memo from president Meredith Stiehm and other leaders.

Netflix was ordered to pay “Bird Box” screenwriter Eric Heisserer $850,000 in residuals along with $350,000 in interest for a total of $1.2 million.

Because the arbitrator ruled that writers on original Netflix productions should be paid on the same level as the licensing fees the streamer pays for third-party titles, the decision was also applied to 139 other original Netflix films, meaning that 216 writers for those films will receive $42 million in unpaid residuals, with an additional $13.5 million pursuant in interest payments.

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