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Originally Posted by pornlaw
Hate them, love them. It doesnt matter. They are upstream from all the producers. Without talent, nothing gets done in this industry.
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I beg to differ about talent agents being "upstream" from producers. They need business and producers need talent and it's a symbiotic relationship. And in any case, I as a producer can largely get along without them to a great extent since I cast a lot of my own talent and work with a lot of individual people who aren't agents to refer talent to me.
I also work with a lot of agents and appreciate the convenience and have a good business relationship with many of them. But no one would be able to dictate terms of any kind to me, on scenes rates or anything else. Most of the the fresh talent has more loyalty to me as a producer quite frankly than their agents whom they often bounce between different ones several times. Especially since I may use a single model many times for multiple projects. Some of my favorite local models have become friends of mine and have filmed for me over two dozen times over the course of a year and in almost any case, they were happy to get whatever fair rates I set for them.
I doubt anything will come of this story anyway. The trend of ever escalating talent rates the last several years has reached its peak. I think that producers who actually have steady work going forward in time are going to gain in power relative to both the agencies and the talent as more companies cut back on filming or go out of business. Matter of fact I think that I have already seen this happening.