Several other factors may be pushing studios away from making any deals with writers, such as the recent decline in box office performance plus the increased production activity to stockpile projects. ``We're at a time of year where the studios have often spent all or a big portion of their development money,'' one prominent producer noted.
Scribes and agents say that execs at Warner Bros., Universal, Fox, Paramount and DreamWorks have all indicated that they're not interested in making any deals with screenwriters until the WGA reaches some kind of agreement.
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