Max begins fixing its ‘disrespectful’ creator credits
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The updates should take a week or so to fully roll out across the platform. | Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images Warner Bros. Discovery has started fixing the controversial creator" credits section on its recently relaunched Max streaming platform over a month following the company apologizing for snubbing the talent behind films and TV shows. According to Deadline, the entertainment giant began revising the credit sections across its various platforms earlier this week - which currently lump together writers, directors, producers, and more as nondescript creators."
This is a credits violation for starters," Meredith Stiehm, president of Writers Guild of America West, said last month. But worse, it is disrespectful and insulting to the artists that make the films and TV shows that make their corporation billions."
The updated credit sections...