George Clooney Meets With SAG-AFTRA Leaders Regarding Contract Talks

George Clooney was amongst a number of actors who met with SAG-AFTRA leaders on Tuesday, October 17 to debate why contract negotiations broke down on October 11.

The Ocean’s Eleven star, 62, spoke with guild president Fran Drescher and union nationwide government director and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland over Zoom, in keeping with Deadline. Scarlett Johansson, Emma Stone, Ben Affleck and Tyler Perry additionally attended the assembly.

Clooney, Johansson, Stone, Affleck and Perry had been “extremely supportive” of the union leaders who’re searching for a brand new three-year contract for SAG-AFTRA, a supply advised Deadline. “They had a lot of questions, some suggestions, and a lot of good feedback,” one other insider mentioned.

The actors had been particularly desirous about elevated income sharing from The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and the 4 main studio CEOs who had been concerned within the talks: Warner Bros. Discovery’s David Zaslav, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, NBCUniversal’s Donna Langley and Disney’s Bob Iger.

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Additional compensation for actors has been the main focus of the SAG-AFTRA negotiations which started in June. In mid-July, the union joined the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and went on strike. The WGA strike, which started May 2, was settled on September 27.

When the 2nd set of talks within the actors strike resumed on October 2, using synthetic intelligence (AI) was additionally a significant concern along with income sharing,

Last week, SAG-AFTRA made a proposal on how forged members may gain advantage from the success of a sequence or movie on streaming companies. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers objected to the proposal, which it claimed would value $800 million a 12 months. AMPTP left the talks, together with the 4 CEOS, on October 11 and didn’t return.

Drescher and Crabtree-Ireland anticipated negotiations to renew the following day as scheduled, nonetheless, they later acquired a name saying that the talks had been being stopped.

The subsequent day, October 12, the SAG-AFTRA reps despatched an e mail to the union members, studying, “We have made big, meaningful counters on our end, including completely transforming our revenue share proposal, which would cost the companies less than 57¢ per subscriber each year.”

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“They have rejected our proposals and refused to counter,” the e-mail continued, including that the 4 CEOs and the AMPTP tried to make use of “bully tactics” and “the same failed strategy they tried to inflict on the WGA.”

New talks between the AMPTP and SAG-AFTRA haven’t been scheduled.