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The Writers Guild of America may be facing a contracting business, a staff strike on its doorstep and a funding crisis for its health plan, but on Tuesday, union leaders made clear they are uncowed heading into this year’s contract negotiations with Hollywood’s top companies. “Whatever cycle we’re in, writers, we know our value, we…
For the first time in 15 years, the powerful but discreet organization that negotiates union contracts on behalf of Hollywood’s major studios and streamers has named a new leader. Gregory Hessinger has been selected to helm the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers as former president Carol Lombardini steps into an advisory position. The…
John Oliver is celebrating the end of the actors strike — sort of. On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, he noted that the 118-day strike had come to an end after SAG-AFTRA reached a tentative deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers last week (the deal still has to be ratified by the…
SAG-AFTRA‘s national board has approved the tentative agreement between the actors union and studios and streamers that ended the 118-day actors strike. The board voted to accept the deal with 86 percent approval, national executive director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland said at a press conference Friday. Members of the 160,000-strong union will vote on ratification of the…
Negotiations are moving forward for Hollywood’s largest union. SAG-AFTRA announced in a new joint statement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which bargains on behalf of studios and streamers, on Wednesday that talks would proceed on Friday as well as resume on Monday. The joint statement and the continuation of negotiations will…
Famed trumpet player and A&M Records co-founder Herb Alpert has donated $250,000 to the through the Herb Alpert Foundation and amid the ongoing Hollywood strikes. The donation — plus a matching gift bringing it to a total of $500,000 — was announced by the organization, formerly known as The Actors Fund, on Wednesday. “When artists…
SAG-AFTRA national executive director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland sees no indication major Hollywood studios and streamers are headed back to the table anytime soon to end dual strikes in the entertainment industry. “Unfortunately, I don’t have anything to report they’re coming back to us. Today is day 57 for our strike, and, no, we don’t have any…
Following an eventful week in which members of the Writers Guild of America as well as the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers traded barbs following the publication of the studios’ counteroffer, no talks are currently scheduled for both sides to return to the negotiating table. According to sources on both sides, there remains…
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers has hired a prominent Washington, D.C.-based crisis management firm to assist its messaging effort as the double actors and writers strike grinds on with no end in sight. The studios’ trade association has been under an unprecedented national spotlight in its four-decade history as the work stoppages…
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers has detailed its August 11 proposal to the Writers Guild of America on the heels of a meeting between guild leadership and Hollywood CEOs. The bargaining group is proposing to ban written material produced by generative artificial intelligence from being considered “literary material” in the contract and…