Some shows and films that have had scripts already completed have continued to film since the writers went on strike. Some television shows, particularly late night shows that are written daily in order to be timely, have had their production halted by the writers’ strike. “I think there’s a significant difference on wage increase, residuals, artificial intelligence and auditions,” said Jonathan Handel, an entertainment attorney and author of thebook, “Hollywood on Strike!: An Industry at War in the Internet Age.” He puts the chance of an actors’ strike at about two to one. But it doesn’t necessarily help.”īoth Nunan and other experts say they think that it is likely that actors will join the writers on the picket lines next month. The DGA tentative deal “doesn’t hurt the leverage or the pursuit of better working conditions for the writers and possibly the actors. “Historically the directors have always reached quick conclusion with studios,” said Tom Nunan, a lecturer at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, as well as a film producer and writer. Several industry experts said Monday that they were not surprised that DGA had reached a deal before the two other unions. If the two unions find themselves on the picket lines together in July, they will be without a third major guild, the Directors Guild of America, which reached a tentative agreement on a new contract with AMPTP this past Saturday, about four weeks before its contract was due to expire.Įxact details of that deal have yet to be released, but the DGA said it represented “advances on wages, streaming residuals, safety, creative rights and diversity, as well as securing essential protections for our members on new key issues like artificial intelligence – ensuring DGA members will not be replaced by technological advances.” Some of those are the same issues the WGA has said it is striking for, and that SAG-AFTRA said it will be seeking in its own negotiations scheduled to start Wednesday. Companies include Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), CBS (VIAC), Disney (DIS), NBC Universal, Netflix (NFLX), Paramount Global, Sony (SNE), and CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. That management group negotiates on behalf of both traditional television and movie studios as well as streaming services. More than 11,000 members of the WGA have been on strike for five weeks without any new negotiations being held in that time with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).
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