Union leaders and Hollywood studios reached a tentative agreement Sunday to end a historic screenwriters after nearly five months, though no deal is yet in the works for striking actors.
The announced the deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the group that represents studios, streaming services and producers in negotiations.
바카라WGA has reached a tentative agreement with the AMPTP,바카라 said in an email to members. 바카라This was made possible by the enduring solidarity of WGA members and extraordinary support of our union siblings who joined us on the picket lines for over 146 days.바카라
The three-year contract agreement 바카라 settled on after five marathon days of renewed talks by negotiators WGA and the AMPTP 바카라 must be approved by the guild's board and members before the strike officially ends.
The terms of the deal were not immediately announced. The tentative deal to end the last writers strike, in 2008, was approved by more than 90 per cent of members.
The agreement comes just five days before the strike would've become the longest in the guild's history, and the longest Hollywood strike in decades.
As a result of the agreement, nightly network shows including NBC's 바카라The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon바카라 and ABC's 바카라Jimmy Kimmel Live!바카라 could return to the air within days.
But as writers prepare to potentially crack open their laptops again, it's far from back to business as usual in Hollywood, as talks have not yet resumed between studios and striking actors. Crew members left with no work by the stoppage will remain unemployed for now.
The proposed solution to the writers strike comes after talks resumed on Wednesday or the first time in a month. Chief executives including Bob Iger of Disney, Ted Sarandos of Netflix, David Zaslav of Warner Bros. Discovery and Donna Langley of NBCUniversal reportedly took part in the negotiations directly.
About 11,500 members of the Writers Guild of America walked off the job May 2 over issues of pay, the size of writing staffs on shows and the use of artificial intelligence in the creation of scripts. Actors, who joined the writers on strike in July, have their own issues but there have been no discussions about resuming negotiations with their union yet.
The writers strike immediately sent late-night talk shows and 바카라Saturday Night Live바카라 into hiatus, and has since sent dozens of scripted shows and other productions into limbo, including forthcoming seasons of Netflix's 바카라Stranger Things," HBO's 바카라The Last of Us,바카라 and ABC's 바카라Abbot Elementary," and films including 바카라Deadpool 3바카라 and 바카라Superman: Legacy.바카라 The Emmy Awards were also pushed from September to January.
More recently, writers had been targeting talk shows that were working around strike rules to return to air, including 바카라 The Drew Barrymore Show,바카라 바카라 Real Time With Bill Maher 바카라 and 바카라The Talk.바카라 All reversed course in the face of picketing and pressure, and are likely to quickly return now.
The combined strikes made for a pivotal moment in Hollywood as creative labour faced off against executives in a business transformed and torn by technology, from the seismic shift to streaming in recent years to the potentially paradigm-shifting emergence of AI in the years to come.
Screenwriters had traditionally gone on strike more than any other segment of the industry, but had enjoyed a relatively long stretch of labour peace until spring negotiations for a new contract fell apart. The walkout was their first since 2007 and their longest since 1988.
On July 14, more than two months into the strike, the writers got a dose of solidarity and star power 바카라 along with a whole lot of new picketing partners 바카라 when they were joined by 65,000 striking film and television actors.
It was the first time the two groups had been on strike together since 1960. In that walkout, the writers strike started first and ended second. This time, studios opted to deal with the writers first.
The AMPTP first reached out to suggest renewing negotiations in August. The meetings were short, infrequent, and not productive, and talks went silent for another month.
