SAG-AFTRA has revealed extra pondering behind its interim agreements, with management saying the initiative is “designed to undermine the production slates and timing of the AMPTP companies and ensure that they come back to the table”.
President Fran Drescher and Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland lifted the lid on the agreements, which have been awarded to effectively over 100 movie and TV initiatives together with Angel Studios’ Bible-based sequence The Chosen; the A24 movies Mother Mary and I Dream of Unicorns and Apple TV+’s Tehran, in a observe to members.
The feedback come after a lot debate about interim agreements, from the likes of Sarah Silverman, in addition to producers, considered one of which informed Deadline that it was “the Wild West”.
“A key element in our strike strategy is our Interim Agreement, which is being granted to certain vetted and truly independent productions. Along with the many other nonstruck contracts our members can currently work, these agreements give journeymen performers and crew the opportunity to pay their bills and put food on the table by working on these indie projects — projects which are not only agreeing to all the terms in our last offer to the AMPTP, but all the righteous proposals our members deserve that the studios rejected,” the pair wrote.
“These interim agreements demonstrate that the terms we proposed to the AMPTP are not ‘unrealistic’. They are fair. And if these independent productions are able to agree to them, then the billion- and trillion-dollar companies should be able to as well,” they added.
The pair stated that “we are living in a historic hour, as we fight to achieve a seminal contract, the likes of which we haven’t seen in over 60 years” because the actors mark the fourth week of their strike, coinciding with Day 100 of the writers strike.
The duo famous that the AMPTP “have not contacted us to resume talks” because the group did with the writers, resulting in Friday’s talks about talks.
“We find ourselves on the front lines of a global labor movement. We are not alone. There are millions of workers across the nation and around the world fighting similar battles against corporate greed who are standing with us in solidarity. It is clear from your show of force on the picket lines, your social media posts and the many interviews we have seen, that our cause is righteous. Your determination will carry us to victory,” they added.
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