Producers speak out over strike

WGA members are picketing at 10 Hollywood studios

Producers hit by the Hollywood writers' strike have taken out full-page adverts pleading their case as the industrial action enters its second week.
The ads, published in Variety and the Hollywood Reporter on Monday, bore the heading "Setting the Record Straight".

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is seeking higher fees - or "residuals" - from work released on DVD or online.

But the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) said that writers were already well compensated.

"As the WGA knows and its own records will attest, writers are paid residuals on permanent digital downloads," the adverts read.

Writers also benefited from pay-per-view digital downloads, the AMPTP continued - part of a "record-breaking" amount paid last year to the WGA's West Coast members.