The back and forth between the scriptwriters and large studios is fluid for the first time since the strike was declared, after having spent months without meeting.
He Writers Guild of America and the representatives of the big studios of hollywoodnucleated in the Film and Television Producers Alliancemet again on Friday to renegotiate your labor agreements in the framework of a guild strike what does he already have 110 daysalthough for the moment no significant progress and talks will continue next week.
As reported by the specialized site Variety, the parties met each of the last four days, although they did not they were able to unlock the most contentious points of the scriptwriters’ demands.
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“Thank you for all the messages of support and solidarity as we chat with the alliance. As always, be skeptical of the third party rumorsknowing that the Labor union It will communicate when we believe there is something significant to report,” union authorities told their members in an email that was reported to the media.
The back and forth between scriptwriters and the big studios is fluent for the first time since the declaration of the unemployment on May 2, after having spent months without meeting, although the parties remain firm on the most relevant aspects.
The establishment of minimum levels of staffing for the episodic TV productionsa minimum guaranteed weeks of employment when entering a project, and the regulation of the use of the Artificial intelligence as regards the work of scriptwriters, are some of them.
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It also causes special employer rejection the issue of payment residual royalties based on the number of views of the content of which they have participated, which is not even contemplated in the current agreement (prior to the existence of streaming).
The conflict occurs concomitantly with another unemployment of great weight for the industryas is the one held by the Hollywood actors and actresses since July 14. As a consequence of the paralyzation of both activities, numerous projects in different stages of development had to postpone and, in some cases, even canceled.
Precisely, in the last few hours, the US portals announced that two productions that already had the green light for a second season on the platform Amazon Prime Videolike science fiction story “The periphery” and comedy “A very special league”finally they will not have continuity.
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