Striking Hollywood Writers Could Meet With Studios As Soon 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 fulfill once more to renew talks.

The Writers Guild of America has strongly instructed 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 stated it was the AMPTP that reached out to request a gathering, in keeping with The Hollywood Reporter. The WGA has not formally confirmed this, nonetheless. As of in the present day, there isn’t any 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 stated earlier than, be cautious of rumors. At any time when there may be essential information to share, you’ll hear it immediately from us,” the WGA’s negotiating committee stated in a be aware 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 rules on the usage of synthetic intelligence. The AMPTP has stated the minimal staffing situation 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 stated the union is “prepared, keen, and capable of 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 similar time. The SAG-AFTRA strike started in the course of the London premiere of Oppenheimer, and actors walked out of a screening when the strike was referred to as.