Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer The Directors Guild of America is continuing its negotiations with the AMPTP, as companies hope to get a deal that could play a role in ending the two-week-old writers strike. Meanwhile, the Writers Guild of America told members Monday that the guild is winning the “PR war” against the studios, as members share their stories in the media. “It seems the whole world is on our side,” wrote Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, a WGA East vice president, in an email to members titled “Our Momentum Grows.” “Members’ individual stories of our broken system — of getting by on ten weeks of work a year, of residual checks amounting to pennies — are resonating with the public. They understand we are losing out on the middle-class American Dream. We are not the elite. We are just like them. We are them.”
WGA Reviews Latest AMPTP Offer As Potential Strike Deadline Moves Closer
28.04.2023 - 00:51 / deadline.com
Picket signs are being prepared to possibly hit the streets next week, but talks between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers appear to have taken a productive turn in the past 24 hours.
After a new proposal yesterday from the studios to the Ellen Stutzman-led WGA Negotiating Committee, the guild and the AMPTP met face-to-face for a brief time late this afternoon, we hear. As with all meetings between the guild and the Carol Lombardini-led AMPTP since talks started on March 20, the parties were gathering at the latter’s Sherman Oaks offices.
As of now, with no details of the specifics of the AMPTP”s proposal, the two sides are scheduled to meet again Friday. The two sides had been pretty far apart since the negotiations started March 20.
Under their mutual media blackout agreement, neither the WGA or the AMPTP would comment on the where things are at.
However, AMPTP yesterday put forth what qualifies as a “best and last” offer, as one insider described — though in negotiations like this that goalpost often moves. Having received a 97.5% strike authorization mandate from members earlier this month, WGA leadership could demand pencils down at 12:01 AM on May 2 after the current contract expires.
Still, despite all the anticipated drama, Hollywood might not be seeing picket lines on Tuesday just yet.
“There is movement, it’s a fluid situation but there is movement, and that is what there should be at this time,” one scribes source said with optimism late Thursday after the recent MPTP offer. That’s certainly a shift from the “gloomy” atmosphere a well-positioned industry source described as prevailing as recently as Wednesday afternoon.
Heading into the weekend, there
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