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Having concluded their negotiations on Friday, Hollywood’s top companies and the Writers Guild of America will meet again the following week after the studios presented the union with its latest counter-offer. In a message to members on Friday night, the WGA negotiating committee reiterated that studios had offered “responses to our proposals in all work…
Representatives for major studios and streamers met with the Writers Guild of America for the first time on Friday since their stalled negotiations led to a strike on May 2 — a meeting that the WGA negotiating committee says produced “no agreement” on the issues. AMPTP president Carol Lombardini and AMPTP staffers as well as…
Steven Soderbergh says that among all the issues facing Hollywood during dual actors and writers strikes, the one that “keeps me up at night” is data transparency — or the lack of it — from streaming platforms. In an interview with Defector, Soderbergh — promoting his self-funded web series Command Z — said that while using artificial intelligence…
Striking Writers Guild of America members expressed both tempered optimism and wariness on Wednesday in response to the news that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers had reached out to restart talks amid stalled contract negotiations. “I hope they’re serious, I hope that they are coming to this with a much more open…
The Writers Guild of America and studios and streamers have finally set a date to meet: Aug. 4. “The AMPTP, through Carol Lombardini, reached out to the WGA today and requested a meeting this Friday to discuss negotiations,” the WGA negotiating committee said in a statement to members on Tuesday. “We’ll be back in communication…
In the wake of prominent members airing concerns about SAG-AFTRA’s interim agreements, union leaders are justifying the granting of these pacts, which allow films and TV shows to proceed amid the ongoing performers’ strike, to independent productions. In a message sent to members on Sunday evening, the union’s TV/theatrical negotiating committee maintained that these agreements…
On July 5, the major crew union IATSE, which reps 160,000-plus entertainment workers from grips to animation to makeup artists, unveiled a set of “core principles” for applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in its members’ work ahead of its 2024 contract talks with studios. The list set off a debate among union members…
Disagreements over a wide array of issues — from wage increases to a revenue-sharing plan for streaming platforms to meal break penalty increases — split Hollywood companies and performers’ union SAG-AFTRA in their negotiations that collapsed on July 12. Meanwhile, some progress was made during the five weeks of negotiations on issues including schedule breaks,…
The beginning of what may be a more militant era in Hollywood studio-labor relations has been ushered in, with actors joining writers on the picket lines in a major stand against film and TV producers that will effectively shut down the industry during the impasse. On July 13, SAG-AFTRA, led by president Fran Drescher, called the…
The story behind how Hollywood’s biggest union came to call their first strike in four decades is beginning to come into focus. SAG-AFTRA’s decision on Thursday to order a work stoppage of around 160,000 members — from Hollywood stars to background actors — made history, constituting the first double strike of both performers and scribes…