2023-06-04 19:12:22
The Alliance of Film and Television Producers of the United States (AMPTP) reached a provisional agreement with the union that represents thousands of Hollywood screenwriters, who have been on strike for more than a month.
The AMTP announced this Sunday that it had managed to obtain a “historic deal”which includes improvements in salary issues, job security, creative rights, diversity and protection for workers in the face of challenges such as the advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
“This agreement recognizes that the future of our industry is global and respects the unique and essential role of directors and their teams as we move toward that future,” said Lesli Linka Glatter, president of the DGA, in a statement.
“As each new technology brings about significant change, this agreement ensures that each of the 19,000 DGA members can share in the success that we all create together,” he added.
The details of the agreement
The provisional agreement, which must be reviewed by the DGA national board at a meeting on Tuesday, includes a 5% increase in wages during the first year of the contract, 4% in the second year and 3.5% in the third year.
The dialogue between the WGA and the AMPTP for the renewal of the sector agreement ended on May 1 without an agreement, which led the more than 10,000 affiliated scriptwriters to start this strike on the 2nd of that month, which from its beginning warned the gradual stoppage of film and television productions.
The industry ripples were immediate, and weekly TV shows like “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” or “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” stopped the making of new chapters.
A short time later, series such as “Stranger Things”, “The Last of Us” and “Andor” announced that they would stop their productions. So far, more than 50 projects have been affected by the strike and if it continues, the AMPTP estimated that the number could rise to 600.
The last writers’ strike that Hollywood went through occurred in 2007 and lasted almost 100 days, resulting in a loss of 2.1 billion dollars and the dismissal of 37,000 professionals.
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