Putting Hollywood Writers Might Meet With Studios As Quickly As August 4 To Resume Negotiations

Hollywood writers have been on strike since Might, however now the writers’ union and representatives from main studios are seemingly lastly going to satisfy once more to renew talks.

The Writers Guild of America has strongly recommended that it’ll meet with the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers (AMPTP) this Friday, August 4, to dig again into negotiations.

The WGA negotiating committee mentioned it was the AMPTP that reached out to request a gathering, based on The Hollywood Reporter. The WGA has not formally confirmed this, nonetheless. As of right now, there isn’t a assembly formally set between the WGA and AMPTP.

“We’ll be again in communication with you someday after the assembly with additional data. As we have mentioned earlier than, be cautious of rumors. Each time there’s vital information to share, you’ll hear it immediately from us,” the WGA’s negotiating committee mentioned in a notice to members.

AMPTP represents main Hollywood studios like Netflix, Warner Bros. NBCUniversal, Paramount, Apple, Amazon, and extra.

The writers are in search of, amongst different issues, residuals based mostly on viewership, minimal staffing numbers, and laws on using synthetic intelligence. The AMPTP has mentioned the minimal staffing concern is “incompatible with the inventive nature” of Hollywood and that AI “requires much more dialogue.”

Actors are on strike, too, and a spokesperson for SAG-AFTRA mentioned the union is “prepared, prepared, and in a position to return to the desk at any time” to renew negotiations.” SAG-AFTRA says it has not heard from AMPTP since July 12.

That is the primary time since 1960 that unions representing writers and actors have been on strike on the identical time. The SAG-AFTRA strike started throughout the London premiere of Oppenheimer, and actors walked out of a screening when the strike was known as.