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IMO this is a labor relations issue and it's exactly the sort of thing that unions should be negotiating with studios, just like they negotiate film credits and residuals and all kinds of other things.

The real victims here are people who signed the contract to do the work, many of whom probably got box office participation who are going to be denied some of their compensation through no fault of their own. And even people with no stake in the box office presumably did the work for "experience" on their resume that is essentially getting disappeared.

I think this problem is somewhat self limiting because film makers signing contracts with WB are going to add clauses to prevent this from happening again.



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