#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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#‘TV’s Top 5’: Breaking Down the AMPTP Counter-Offer and WGA Response

#‘TV’s Top 5’: Breaking Down the AMPTP Counter-Offer and WGA Response

Welcome to the 228th episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast. Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as…

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#WGA Responds to Studios’ Release of Aug. 11 Proposal: “Failed to Sufficiently Protect Writers”

#WGA Responds to Studios’ Release of Aug. 11 Proposal: “Failed to Sufficiently Protect Writers”

The Writers Guild of America clapped back late Tuesday after the studios released its Aug. 11 proposals package earlier in the evening, telling members that the offer “failed to sufficiently protect writers” and accused members of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers of leading an effort “not to bargain, but to jam us.”…

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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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#More Allegations of Picket-Busting at NBCUniversal Campus

#More Allegations of Picket-Busting at NBCUniversal Campus

It’s happening again. The NBCUniversal campus, already a flashpoint for Hollywood’s ongoing labor unrest, as the writers’ and actors’ guilds have alleged picket-busting, is now the site of a new strike controversy. This time Unite Here Local 11, the Southern California hospitality union that’s also currently staging walkouts, is claiming that the Sheraton Universal is…

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