An finish in sight? Striking writers and Hollywood studios spend second full day in negotiations

By Associated Press

LOS ANGELES: Hollywood studios and hanging screenwriters spent Thursday in talks that would doubtlessly put an finish to the practically five-month dispute that has introduced many movie and tv productions to a halt.

The Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents the trade’s studios, streaming providers and manufacturing firms, negotiated for a second full day on the latter group’s headquarters in Los Angeles.

Reports of progress heading into the day had observers watching the assembly carefully, however there have been no important updates from contained in the room Thursday.

Present on the negotiations have been a bunch of high leisure CEOs together with Disney’s Bob Iger, Warner Bros. Discovery’s David Zaslav, Universal’s Donna Langley and Netflix’s Ted Sarandos.

On Wednesday night time, CNBC reporter David Faber wrote on X, previously often known as Twitter, that the writers and AMPTP have been “near” an settlement and “hope to finalize the deal,” in line with his nameless sources. He additionally mentioned his sources warned that ought to the deal not shut, the strike is more likely to proceed till the top of the 12 months.

No different outlet has been capable of corroborate Faber’s report. Deadline reported, nevertheless, that the primary day of negotiations have been “very encouraging.” The Associated Press despatched emails in search of remark to representatives for the AMPTP, the WGA and different leisure firms.

The two sides have been divided on problems with pay, the dimensions of writing workers on reveals and the usage of synthetic intelligence within the creation of scripts. Actors, who joined the writers on strike in July, have their very own points however there have been no discussions about resuming negotiations with their union but.

The temper exterior Netflix’s Hollywood headquarters was upbeat Thursday, with music blaring and drivers honking in assist of the picketers.

Actor-writer-producer Justine Bateman, who starred within the ’80s sequence “Family Ties,” mentioned the important thing to creating a deal was that the guild’s fundamental settlement provides the best phrases to the brand new technology of writers.

“The point is not to have a resolution as much as to make sure that we have made a deal that protects us … writers in the minimum basic agreement,” Bateman mentioned, noting that she and different writers-producers had benefited from the phrases of earlier contracts.

“It has to be a deal that makes this worth it,” she mentioned.

A earlier try to restart talks with the writers fell flat. The two sides had a handful of conferences in mid-August, together with one which included the heads of Disney, Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery.

But writers mentioned that after exchanging contract proposals, “they were met with a lecture about how good their single and only counteroffer was,” and the talks trailed off.

The WGA strike is nearing file size. Should it proceed by means of Sept. 30, it is going to be the longest within the union’s historical past and the longest Hollywood strike since 1945.

LOS ANGELES: Hollywood studios and hanging screenwriters spent Thursday in talks that would doubtlessly put an finish to the practically five-month dispute that has introduced many movie and tv productions to a halt.

The Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents the trade’s studios, streaming providers and manufacturing firms, negotiated for a second full day on the latter group’s headquarters in Los Angeles.

Reports of progress heading into the day had observers watching the assembly carefully, however there have been no important updates from contained in the room Thursday.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

Present on the negotiations have been a bunch of high leisure CEOs together with Disney’s Bob Iger, Warner Bros. Discovery’s David Zaslav, Universal’s Donna Langley and Netflix’s Ted Sarandos.

On Wednesday night time, CNBC reporter David Faber wrote on X, previously often known as Twitter, that the writers and AMPTP have been “near” an settlement and “hope to finalize the deal,” in line with his nameless sources. He additionally mentioned his sources warned that ought to the deal not shut, the strike is more likely to proceed till the top of the 12 months.

No different outlet has been capable of corroborate Faber’s report. Deadline reported, nevertheless, that the primary day of negotiations have been “very encouraging.” The Associated Press despatched emails in search of remark to representatives for the AMPTP, the WGA and different leisure firms.

The two sides have been divided on problems with pay, the dimensions of writing workers on reveals and the usage of synthetic intelligence within the creation of scripts. Actors, who joined the writers on strike in July, have their very own points however there have been no discussions about resuming negotiations with their union but.

The temper exterior Netflix’s Hollywood headquarters was upbeat Thursday, with music blaring and drivers honking in assist of the picketers.

Actor-writer-producer Justine Bateman, who starred within the ’80s sequence “Family Ties,” mentioned the important thing to creating a deal was that the guild’s fundamental settlement provides the best phrases to the brand new technology of writers.

“The point is not to have a resolution as much as to make sure that we have made a deal that protects us … writers in the minimum basic agreement,” Bateman mentioned, noting that she and different writers-producers had benefited from the phrases of earlier contracts.

“It has to be a deal that makes this worth it,” she mentioned.

A earlier try to restart talks with the writers fell flat. The two sides had a handful of conferences in mid-August, together with one which included the heads of Disney, Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery.

But writers mentioned that after exchanging contract proposals, “they were met with a lecture about how good their single and only counteroffer was,” and the talks trailed off.

The WGA strike is nearing file size. Should it proceed by means of Sept. 30, it is going to be the longest within the union’s historical past and the longest Hollywood strike since 1945.