Gregory Hessinger to Replace Carol Lombardini at AMPTP As Hollywood’s Top Negotiator With Labor

Gregory Hessinger to Replace Carol Lombardini at AMPTP As Hollywood’s Top Negotiator With Labor

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…

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#SAG-AFTRA Board Approves New Contract

#SAG-AFTRA Board Approves New Contract

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…

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#SAG-AFTRA Negotiations to Continue Friday, Next Week

#SAG-AFTRA Negotiations to Continue Friday, Next Week

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…

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#AMPTP Hires New Crisis PR Firm as Strikes Go On

#AMPTP Hires New Crisis PR Firm as Strikes Go On

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…

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#Studios Reveal New Proposal to Striking Writers On Data Transparency, AI and Residuals

#Studios Reveal New Proposal to Striking Writers On Data Transparency, AI and Residuals

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…

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