Striking Hollywood Writers Could Meet With Studios As Soon As August 4 To Resume Negotiations

Hollywood writers have been on strike since May, 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 prompt that it’s going to meet with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television 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 line with The Hollywood Reporter. The WGA has not formally confirmed this, nonetheless. As of as we speak, there is no such thing as a assembly formally set between the WGA and AMPTP.

“We’ll be back in communication with you sometime after the meeting with further information. As we’ve said before, be wary of rumors. Whenever there is important news to share, you will hear it directly from us,” the WGA’s negotiating committee stated in a word 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 primarily based on viewership, minimal staffing numbers, and laws on using synthetic intelligence. The AMPTP has stated the minimal staffing challenge is “incompatible with the creative nature” of Hollywood and that AI “requires a lot more discussion.”

Actors are on strike, too, and a spokesperson for SAG-AFTRA stated the union is “ready, willing, and able to return to the table at any time” to renew negotiations.” SAG-AFTRA says it has not heard from AMPTP since July 12.

This 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 throughout the London premiere of Oppenheimer, and actors walked out of a screening when the strike was known as.