Hollywood Strikes Are Over! - SAG-AFTRA agrees to a deal

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Negotiations between the WGA and AMPTP are set to resume Wednesday.

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WGA Confirms AMPTP Talks Will Restart On Wednesday

The writers and the studios are set to sit down to resume negotiations on Wednesday. The WGA sent out a note to members confirming the talks. “The WGA and AMPTP now have a confirmed schedule to bargain this week, starting on Wednesday. You might not hear from us in the coming days while we are...
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TsWade2

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DCBaker said:
Negotiations between the WGA and AMPTP are set to resume Wednesday.

deadline.com

WGA Confirms AMPTP Talks Will Restart On Wednesday

The writers and the studios are set to sit down to resume negotiations on Wednesday. The WGA sent out a note to members confirming the talks. “The WGA and AMPTP now have a confirmed schedule to bargain this week, starting on Wednesday. You might not hear from us in the coming days while we are...
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Thank you. I don't want to get my hopes up, but I hope this is it. And even though the writers strike does end, the AMPTP has to negotiate the actors next, then the whole Hollywood strike will be over, I hope. 🥺
 
Communicora

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You're right in that this strike won't last forever. They'll figure it out, both sides will give up some ground, and it will eventually be resolved.

But it's not 1985. These Hollywood folks are the epitome of what we all now know as Non-Essential Employees. They can stop working en masse, and the world keeps on going without them. No problem. Unlike truckers or grocery clerks or air traffic controllers or policemen, the world doesn't need them to survive day to day.



Agreed, they'll figure it out. Both sides need to lower their expectations though. And I do think this is going to take at least another couple of months. The unions seem to have overplayed their hand with how much they are needed in the 2020's, and the studio execs seem to be really scared about what the future holds based on new technology and marketplace trends.

Neither of those angles seems to line up with current reality.

Example #2,408: Tonight the magical YouTube algorithm just revealed to me that there's a kid in his mom's basement who for the past few months has been cleaning up and re-releasing old episodes of The Love Boat. They're in pristine condition, they look unreal on my giant 4K screen compared to how they looked on my 28 inch Zenith during the Carter Administration, and they're still hilariously fun to watch.

Who needs modern Hollywood??? Some kid on YouTube just edited into HD the Greatest Works of Aaron Spelling. 🤣 😍 🤣

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Love Boat is on Paramount Plus and it doesn't have that weird uncanny valley look that the YouTube ones have!
 
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Communicora said:
Love Boat is on Paramount Plus and it doesn't have that weird uncanny valley look that the YouTube ones have!
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The main TV set here at the beach house is just a five year old Samsung that's only 65 inches, so I hadn't noticed an image problem with the YouTube versions. Or, more likely, my eyes and brain are too old and unsavvy to process the lower quality. :rolleyes:

But I have a newer/larger setup at home, so I will definitely be looking into Paramount Plus. At least for a month or two until I am sick to death of Julie McCoy's suspicious perkiness.

In Hollywood Strike news.... Nothing much is happening this Monday afternoon. Just fallout over Drew Barrymore trying to cross picket lines and get her show back on the air to help make her mortgage payment to help brighten people's day.

globalnews.ca

Drew Barrymore flips, says show won’t return until Hollywood strike ends - National | Globalnews.ca

After a week of backlash, Drew Barrymore announced a 'pause' on her talk show as Hollywood actors and writers continue to strike.
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Communicora

Communicora

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TP2000 said:
The main TV set here at the beach house is just a five year old Samsung that's only 65 inches, so I hadn't noticed an image problem with the YouTube versions. Or, more likely, my eyes and brain are too old and unsavvy to process the lower quality. :rolleyes:

But I have a newer/larger setup at home, so I will definitely be looking into Paramount Plus. At least for a month or two until I am sick to death of Julie McCoy's suspicious perkiness.

In Hollywood Strike news.... Nothing much is happening this Monday afternoon. Just fallout over Drew Barrymore trying to cross picket lines and get her show back on the air to help make her mortgage payment to help brighten people's day.

globalnews.ca

Drew Barrymore flips, says show won’t return until Hollywood strike ends - National | Globalnews.ca

After a week of backlash, Drew Barrymore announced a 'pause' on her talk show as Hollywood actors and writers continue to strike.
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The youtube ones are fine, but they have an overly processed and smooth look that creeps me out for some reason.

Please tell me you've seen this!

 
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Whoops - thought we were in the Miscellaneous Thread
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Don't worry, there's no real news this week about the strikes yet. But you actually are On Topic with that YouTube link.

Yes, I have seen that clip, and bizarrely adored it. The YouTube algorithm already recommended it to me. The YouTube algorithm is truly a miraculous and powerful thing. I've spent many happy weeknights tuned in to YouTube for years now, without a single thought to check out what was happening on what I now know is called Linear TV.

It's not 1985 any more. It's 2023, and Americans have limitless possibilities to be thoroughly entertained by "TV" that isn't on any network or actual TV station. I think both the Writers Guild and the Actors group simply has to realize that the world has changed, and their old business model hasn't worked since the late 2010's. Covid only accelerated by a couple years the entertainment trends that were already in place five years ago.

Both the bigshot execs and the Hollywood unions need to get back to the negotiating table with a sober realization that their old business models and pay structures no longer make any sense. I think both sides need to give.

Until then, I'll happily watch YouTube for free with the rest of America.

P.S. I remember watching that Love Boat guest star recap a few months ago, pausing it about 20 minutes in because it hit 7pm and that's my Cocktail Hour, and then finished watching it. Then I laughed hysterically at myself for spending almost an hour on that video. If you had tried to explain that concept to my 1978 self when I was tuning in to Love Boat religiously, I never could have believed it. 🤣

P.P.S. Disneyland Version: Of the many memorable names I'd forgotten about in that recap video, apparently Don Defore appeared on The Love Boat in one of the early seasons. Don Defore was a personal friend of Walt Disney, and for several years in the late 1950's into the mid 1960's he operated "Don Defore's Silver Banjo Barbecue", a barbecue restaurant in Frontierland, out of a small storefront that is now the busboy side entrance of Riverbelle Terrace.

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TP2000

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I was just listening to an LA talk radio station drive time show, the mighty KFI that comes in loud and clear in San Diego (and most of western America with a good antenna), and they were making fun of Drew Barrymore. :(

Now, I have a soft spot in my heart for Ms. Barrymore because I loved the movie E.T. and her tireless work as a co-hostess for EPCOT Center's gala grand opening TV special. But then I kind of lost track of her career.

They were playing some of her audio clips from some sort of public apology/confessional she made when she announced she would not be restarting her talk show after getting a lot of criticism from her Hollywood peers. And.... oh, dear. :oops:

She compared her talk show to bringing hope to the world during Covid? It was hard to follow, but the maudlin framing of her work and thinly veiled self importance she was doing was like something from The Onion or Babylon Bee.

Again, there's a soft spot in my heart for Ms. Barrymore, but do these Hollywood types realize what they sound like to ordinary Americans?
 
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Well now they’re negotiations are back, it’s time for them to hurry up and make a fair deal with the writers and the actors so this crazy Hollywood strike will end and their ruining Disney’s 100th anniversary. Of course, that’s just me.🙄
 
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TsWade2 said:
Well now they’re negotiations are back, it’s time for them to hurry up and make a fair deal with the writers and the actors so this crazy Hollywood strike will end and their ruining Disney’s 100th anniversary. Of course, that’s just me.🙄
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How has the Hollywood strikes, which affects primarily movies/tv, been ruining Disney's 100th celebration?

Outside of press for Wish, which is still 2 months away as of this post, I can't see how any of this really is affecting the 100th anniversary at all. None of it was really ever dependent on Hollywood writers or actors.
 
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TsWade2

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Disney Irish said:
How has the Hollywood strikes, which affects primarily movies/tv, been ruining Disney's 100th celebration?

Outside of press for Wish, which is still 2 months away as of this post, I can't see how any of this really is affecting the 100th anniversary at all. None of it was really ever dependent on Hollywood writers or actors.
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Never mind Irish! Like I said, it's just me.
 
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"Confirming the feeling of urgency taking hold around town to resolve the historic, ongoing writers’ strike, a group of top CEOs are attending Wednesday’s bargaining session between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.

Disney CEO Bob Iger, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos and NBCUniversal Studio Group chairman and chief content officer Donna Langley are all present at the meeting that began around 10 am PT, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. It’s highly unusual for the industry bargaining representative, the AMPTP, to include CEOs directly in bargaining sessions, which are usually led on the studio and streamer side by labor relations representatives and top AMPTP staffers; but the industry-wide crisis resulting from the ongoing writers’ and actors’ strikes has pushed company leaders to become more directly involved in talks.

Said one studio-side source with knowledge of Wednesday’s negotiations, “CEOs have cleared their calendars and want to sit and have a real conversation.” This person added that the WGA submitted a list of issues in order of importance, from thorniest to least thorny, to the studio side prior to the meeting. “This is so long in coming; everyone’s feeling pain. Let’s get in there and nail things down,” the source said.

THR has gone to the WGA and the AMPTP for comment.

One studio-side source says company leaders pre-gamed the negotiation in a Zoom prior to Wednesday’s bargaining session. “They feel the smaller the group, the more meaningful it will be. They want to get in a room and figure it all out,” this person said."

Full article below.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Studio CEOs Attend Latest Writers Guild Bargaining Session

"This is so long in coming; everyone’s feeling pain. Let’s get in there and nail things down," says one source familiar with Wednesday's meeting attended by Bob Iger, David Zaslav, Ted Sarandos and Donna Langley.
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Update on the negotiations from Deadline.

"A second day of direct negotiations between the Writers Guild and studio CEOs has concluded this evening.

While no deal is at hand at present, the parties have had significant and detailed talks this week, we hear. They are drilling down into the fine print in the hopes of reaching a new three-year contract within hours or days.

However, with the situation fluid and chatter around town of a deal, it is unclear at the moment if the scribes and studios will be meeting again. A new get together could come tomorrow or on Tuesday September 26, after the Yom Kippur holiday — we will update with more information as we get it. As it stands a new meeting has not been set as the parties go over details and data coming out of the recent negotiations.

The writers have been on strike for 143 days, so far.

Once again, as Deadline exclusively reported Wednesday, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, Disney’s Bob Iger, Universal’s Donna Langley and Warner Bros Discovery’s David Zaslav were in the room with WGA and AMPTP chief Carol Lombardini, to try to seal a deal.

Meeting at the AMPTP’s Sherman Oaks offices, the nitty gritty discussions Thursday primarily centered on the proposals put forth by the studios yesterday and the guild’s response. With the issue of writer rooms staffing mandates among the sticking points, the CEO Gang of Four sat across the table from the guild negotiating committee led by Ellen Stutzman, David Goodman and Chris Keyser.

Additionally, to move maters along in what were generally cordial exchanges, there were sidebars between the individual CEOs and WGA brass occurring throughout Thursday, as was the case on September 20. “These are complex negotiations,” a source close to this latest round of talks says of a potential deal. “You want to move with determination, make sure everything’s buttoned up, that takes time.”"

More in the article linked below.

deadline.com

WGA & Studio CEOs End Second Day Of Talks; “Progress” Made But Deal Not Done – Update

The scribes have been on strike for 143 days, so far
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