The WGA and the AMPTP have delayed the start of their contract negotiations by a week because of scheduling issues. The talks for a new film and TV deal, which had been set to start next week, will now begin on May 18. The AMPTP is also in the midst of negotiating a new contract with SAG-AFTRA.
The WGA's current pact…
The WGA and the AMPTP have agreed to extend their current film and TV contract to June 30 and to start bargaining during the week of May 11. Their deal had been set to expire Friday night at midnight PT.
"Due to the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, the WGA and the AMPTP have agreed to extend the 2017 WGA Minimum…
The standoff continues between the WGA and the AMPTP, whose film and TV contract expires Friday night at midnight. The chief stumbling block to an extension of the pact has been the guild's insistence that the trustees of the WGA Health Plan adopt an amendment to the plan extending eligibility to participants who will…
SAG-AFTRA and management's AMPTP said Friday that they will start negotiations for a new film and TV contract on Monday. In a joint statement, they said that due to the COVID-19 pandemic and state government stay-at-home orders, the talks will be conducted via video teleconference. Their current contract expires June…
UPDATED with WGA responses to Lombardini email: In a troubling sign of the ill will the WGA has for management's AMPTP as they prepare for upcoming contract talks in the middle of a pandemic, WGA West executive director David Young has accused the AMPTP of being "despicable."
"There will be an agreement when both…
The WGA and the AMPTP continue to move closer to a May 11 start date for negotiations for a new film and TV contract, and for an extension of their current pact from May 1 to June 30. The negotiations had been set to begin on March 23, but were delayed because of the industry's COVID-19 shutdown.
One outstanding issue…
The WGA told its members this evening that the COVID-19 crisis "has increased our resolve to advance the bargaining goals" it intends to pursue with management's AMPTP for a new film and TV contract. In a communique with members, the guild's negotiating committee noted, however, "We have not yet heard back from the…
The WGA says it now is "prepared to agree" to the AMPTP's proposal that they extend the May 1 expiration of the guild's current film and TV contract to June 30 and has offered to begin negotiations via video and telephone conference during the week of May 11. But WGA West executive director David Young told Deadline…
As California and New York are starting to explore ways to reopen when the worst of the coronavirus is over, Hollywood's unions and management's AMPTPare working on safety protocols to get film and television production re-started. "We’re working aggressively with industry safety experts and coordinating with other…
One year after the WGA ordered thousands of its members to fire their agents in a dispute over packaging fees and agency-related production entities, neither side shows any signs they are willing to give in.
At least where it comes to the four biggest packaging agencies – WME, CAA, UTA and ICM Partners – writers have…
TV studios had been preparing for a work stoppage for months over the expiring WGA-AMPTP contract. In an ironic twist of fate, the stoppage came a little earlier, brought upon by a force nobody could’ve predicted.
A month into the mass Hollywood production shutdown over the coronavirus pandemic, anxiety among TV…
EXCLUSIVE, UPDATED with WGA statement: Management's AMPTP wants to start contract talks with the WGA this month. In a letter today, AMPTP president Carol Lombardini told WGA West executive director David Young that she wants to start negotiations via teleconference for a new film and TV contract during the week of…
