SAG-AFTRA Strikes New Deal With Producers for Film and TV

Dave McNary Film ReporterSAG-AFTRA’s national board has approved sending out its successor film-television contract for ratification by its 160,000 members.The board approved the tentative three-year deal, which was reached on June 11, by a vote of 67.6% to 32.4%.

The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) National Board of Directors met today in a one-day videoconference plenary and approved the tentative agreement reached with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on June 11.

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Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Christopher Potts and Jonty Nash, two of the creative minds behind Netflix reality series Nailed It! and Sugar Rush, have signed an overall deal with ITV America.The pair, who also helped to develop NBCU’s hit British reality series Made In Chelsea, will work with the Love Island producer via their recently established production label Nobody’s Hero.Nobody’s Hero was established at the start of the year after the pair previously worked together at Project

Manori Ravindran International EditorComcast-backed pay-TV broadcaster Sky and Discovery have struck a new multi-year deal that will see Discovery’s non-linear brands, such as MotorTrend and other SVOD products in the pipeline for the U.K.

Peter White Television EditorSam Dean, the showrunner of Netflix’s breakout reality dating hit Love Is Blind, is starting a relationship with HBO Max.The nascent streamer has closed a first-look overall deal with the producer, who previously worked at Love Is Blind producer Kinetic Content.

The production of James Cameron's much-awaited Avatar sequel is back on track in New Zealand. The filming of Avatar 2 was put on hold in March after the New Zealand Government instituted a lockdown amid the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic to promote social distancing and stop the spread of the deadly virus.

David Robb Labor EditorSAG-AFTRA has reached a tentative agreement with the AMPTP for a new film and TV contract. No details of the deal were announced.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has picked up a raft of film and TV content for the UK market, including Drake Doremus drama Endings, Beginnings with Shailene Woodley, Jamie Dornan, Sebastian Stan and Matthew Gray Gubler, and Jake Gyllenhaal-produced Sundance horror Relic.The company has also struck deals for classic library titles including Muriel’s Wedding, Luc Besson action pic Taxi and cult sci-fi series Children Of Dune via separate pacts with TF1 and

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: Line Of Duty is being restored to Netflix in a number of significant international territories after the streamer struck a deal with producer World Productions.Netflix removed the hit British police drama in April after rights talks broke down following the messy collapse of production empire Kew Media Group and its distribution arm Kew Media Distribution.Netflix made Kew Media administrator FTI Consulting a financial offer to maintain its licenses

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