Tyler Perry is speaking out on the SAG-AFTRA strike, now in its 117th day, as it appears a possible deal is getting much closer.
19.10.2023 - 03:41 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Ted Sarandos may have insisted today that he and other studio CEOs want to end the over three-month long actors strike and “get everyone back to work,” but for SAG-AFTRA’s chief negotiator, the Netflix boss is full of nothing but hot air.
“Talking about putting people back to work while refusing to negotiate is just spin,” bluntly exclaims Duncan Crabtree-Ireland to Deadline this evening in response to Sarandos’ comments during the streamer’s third-quarter earnings call Wednesday.
Coming a week after the AMPTP and the CEO Gang of Four suddenly suspended deliberations over the guild’s revenue sharing proposal, Sarandos today said after an optimistic” start to talks “a subscriber levy unrelated to viewing or success” suggested by SAG-AFTRA “really broke our momentum.” Led in bargaining by Sarandos, Warner Bros. Discovery’s David Zaslav, NBCUniversal’s Donna Langley and Disney’s Bob Iger, the AMPTP walked out of talks in the afternoon of October 11 and later phoned Crabtree-Ireland and union president Fran Drescher to say they weren’t coming back after just nine days of on and off meetings.
The studios and streamers asserted the guild’s estimated $800 million a year plan was an “untenable economic burden” that could break them. The guild accused the studios and streamers of vastly inflating the price tag of the proposal. SAG-AFTRA accused the CEO Gang of Four and the Carol Lombardini-led AMPTP of “bully tactics” and using “the same failed strategy they tried to inflict on the WGA” to kneecap talks.
As he has repeatedly and publicly since negotiations were shuttered, Crabtree-Ireland pushed back against de facto Gang of Four leader Sarandos’ assertions today, maybe harder than ever. The union leader stated that
Tyler Perry is speaking out on the SAG-AFTRA strike, now in its 117th day, as it appears a possible deal is getting much closer.
The lead negotiators for SAG-AFTRA and the studios are set to meet later today in what could be the final phase to sealing a new deal and the end to the 117-day actors guild strike.
EXCLUSIVE: A deal may not be in the cards tonight, but SAG-AFTRA and the studios could be heading back to negotiations within hours.
EXCLUSIVE: Today’s meeting between SAG-AFTRA and an expanded group of studio CEOs has just ended as the guild scrutinizes the AMPTP‘s long awaited response to their last comprehensive counter.
EXCLUSIVE: It was all quiet on the SAG-AFTRA negotiations front Thursday.
EXCLUSIVE: There’s real movement in talks between SAG-AFTRA and the studios for a new three-year contract,
EXCLUSIVE: It will be neither trick nor treat tonight as SAG-AFTRA and the studios plan to continue talking over the next few days in search of a deal to end the 110-day strike that has become a Hollywood nightmare.
EXCLUSIVE: SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP continued to communicate intermittently Sunday as they close in on possibly reaching a new deal that could end the 108-day strike.
SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher took to Instagram to express her condolences over the passing of Friends star Matthew Perry.
EXCLUSIVE: Sunday will not be a day of rest for SAG-AFTRA leadership and the studios this weekend.
EXCLUSIVE: SAG-AFTRA and the studios don’t have a deal, but they are planning on talking more.
SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP are back at the table today for more talks to resolve the actors strike that has been going on for over 100 days.
Negotiations scheduled Wednesday between SAG-AFTRA and the studios didn’t happen after all — and everyone’s good with that.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Four CEOs are set to return to SAG-AFTRA headquarters on Tuesday with a new offer that they hope will break the stalemate in the 102-day actors strike. Among them will be Disney’s Bob Iger, who called SAG-AFTRA’s top negotiator, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, on Saturday to invite the actors back to the bargaining table. The CEOs — who also include David Zaslav of Warner Bros.
After over a week of silence, the actors union and the AMPTP are set to return to negotiations on Tuesday, Oct. 24.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer On the first day of the SAG-AFTRA strike in July, union president Fran Drescher was asked how long she expected it to last. “We’re set up to go six months if we have to,” Drescher said. It hasn’t been that long yet.
A plan put forth this week to SAG-AFTRA by George Clooney and other big stars to potentially kick start stalled negotiations with the studios is “worthy of review and consideration,” says the union’s chief negotiator.
George Clooney presented a proposal to SAG-AFTRA leadership during a Tuesday afternoon Zoom call in an effort to find a way to resolve the three-month-long actors strike with the studios. But the proposal is likely dead on arrival. Sources with knowledge of the situation say the group of some 15 stars, which includes Tyler Perry and Scarlett Johansson, held a follow-up call last night with SAG-AFTRA’s negotiating committee.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer A group of A-list actors is adding pressure on SAG-AFTRA leadership to find a way to resolve the actors strike, which has now lasted 97 days. George Clooney, Tyler Perry, Scarlett Johansson, and others held a Zoom meeting on Tuesday afternoon with Fran Drescher, the president of SAG-AFTRA, and Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, the union’s executive director. Though the tone has been described as “supportive,” the actors did not call the meeting merely to express support.
Negotiations between the studios and the striking actors guild may have come to a sudden halt last week, but according to Netflix today everyone is still talking – even when they aren’t.