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IATSE, Studios Set to Negotiate Craft-Specific Issues Next Week
After nearly a week of internal conversations on both sides, IATSE and Hollywood’s major studios and streamers will be resuming their ongoing negotiations on Monday by covering craft-specific issues. The International Cinematographers Guild (IATSE Local 600) will be discussing its proposals with management at the headquarters of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers […]
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How SAG-AFTRA’s Streaming Bonus Compares to Other Guild Deals
Actors will get a somewhat larger piece of the streaming pie under the tentative agreement they made with studios and streamers — and the deal has a wrinkle that sets it apart from other recent contracts between Hollywood guilds and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Under the proposed new contract, which SAG-AFTRA’s […]
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John Oliver Jokes He Doesn’t Need Movies Anymore Thanks to 17-Minute Viral Hamster Maze Video
John Oliver is celebrating the end of the actors strike — sort of. On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, he noted that the 118-day strike had come to an end after SAG-AFTRA reached a tentative deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers last week (the deal still has to be ratified by the […]
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SAG-AFTRA Board Approves New Contract
SAG-AFTRA’s national board has approved the tentative agreement between the actors union and studios and streamers that ended the 118-day actors strike. The board voted to accept the deal with 86 percent approval, national executive director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland said at a press conference Friday. Members of the 160,000-strong union will vote on ratification of the […]
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Canadian Actors Union “Relieved” at Tentative SAG-AFTRA Deal to End Strike
The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists is “relieved” over the tentative deal reached by its sister SAG-AFTRA union with the AMPTP, representing major Hollywood studios and streamers. “We’ve been following SAG-AFTRA’s negotiations closely. Their issues are the same as our issues. Their fight is our fight,” Eleanor Noble, ACTRA national president, said […]
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Hollywood Reacts to Tentative SAG-AFTRA, AMPTP Deal: “We Did It”
Actors are among those in Hollywood reacting to the tentative agreement reached between SAG-AFTRA and studios and streamers Wednesday. The deal on a new three-year contract came after 118 days into the actor strike and after weeks of renewed negotiations. The strike will end at 12:01 a.m. Thursday as the deal goes to the union’s […]
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Actors React to Studio Talks Breaking Down After 90 Days of Strike: “It’s Just So Disappointing”
Morale following the breakdown of the negotiations between the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and SAG-AFTRA on Wednesday evening seemed depleted as actors and supporters walked back and forth in front of Hollywood studios, carrying “SAG-AFTRA on Strike!” signs that have been omnipresent at company entrances over the past three months. Outside of […]
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SAG-AFTRA Negotiations to Continue Friday, Next Week
Negotiations are moving forward for Hollywood’s largest union. SAG-AFTRA announced in a new joint statement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which bargains on behalf of studios and streamers, on Wednesday that talks would proceed Friday as well as resume Monday. The joint statement and the continuation of negotiations will likely be […]
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“Fake Carol’s” Message to the Real AMPTP President: “Babe, You Don’t Have to Keep Doing This”
While the industry will undoubtedly debate the winners and losers from the writers strike, there is one indisputable victor during the 146-day-long work stoppage: the “Fake Carol” Lombardini Twitter/X account. The self-professed parody account became a viral sensation during strike, taking shots at the president of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, Drew […]
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Hollywood Reacts to Tentative WGA, AMPTP Deal: “We Did It!”
Striking writers and other members of Hollywood are calling the tentative deal reached by the Writers Guild and the AMPTP on Sunday a “victory.” The deal was announced Sunday, which was 146 days after the writers strike began on May 2 and following five back-to-back days of negotiations that ran through the weekend. In its […]
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Writers Guild Reaches Tentative Agreement With Studios and Streamers
After several long consecutive days of negotiations, the Writers Guild of America and the labor group representing studios and streamers have reached a tentative deal on a new contract in a major development that could precipitate the end of a historic, 146-day writers strike. The Writers Guild of America emailed strike captains the news on […]
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Studio CEOs Attend Latest Writers Guild Bargaining Session
Confirming the feeling of urgency taking hold around town to resolve the historic, ongoing writers strike, a group of top CEOs attended Wednesday’s bargaining session between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Disney CEO Bob Iger, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos and […]
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