HOLLYWOOD-SCREENWRITERS – TELAM Agency
The Writers Guild (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers of the United States (AMPTP), which have been in a conflict and strike for almost five months over the revision of their collective agreements, made significant progress in their negotiations and will meet again today for the fourth consecutive day.
As reported by American specialized media such as Variety, sources from both parties revealed that at the end of yesterday’s meeting, which began at 11 a.m. in Los Angeles and lasted until 8:30 p.m., there were finally movements that brought an agreement closer. .
The back and forth between the big studios and the representation of the writers’ union was practically paralyzed since the strike began on May 2. However, the presence of four top executives from the largest players in the market since Wednesday’s talks is a clear indication that the pact may be closer.
This is Bob Iger, CEO of Disney; NBCUniversal’s Donna Langley; Netflix’s Ted Sarandos; and David Zaslav of Warner Bros. Discovery, who personally led the marathon discussion sessions at AMPTP headquarters in Sherman Oaks.
Multiple sources consulted by Variety indicated that the agreement on the hot points of the discussion is practically closed, and that now the concern is focused – especially on the side of the scriptwriters – on details of the contractual vocabulary that does not leave gaps that could later be an advantage. legal for large companies.
Some of the critical issues of the new agreement address issues such as the use of artificial intelligence, minimum staffing of writing teams, minimum weeks of employment when entering a project in episodic television or residual compensation linked to the success of a specific content. .
This last aspect, given the radical changes that streaming introduced in the business, is an area that the parties view with special suspicion.
It is believed that the scriptwriters – as well as the Screen Actors Guild, which has also been on strike and in dispute with the AMPTP since July – are demanding that a figure be included in the contract that contemplates a kind of success rate for a series or film, given by a predetermined percentage of viewers out of the total subscribers that the platform has.
Source: Ambito
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