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The Directors Guild and management's AMPTP will begin negotiations for a new film and TV contract on Feb. 10, making the DGA the first guild – as it has been in the last two bargaining cycles – to sit down with the companies, and thus setting the pattern of bargaining in which the AMPTP will expect the WGA and…

The WGA’s ongoing standoff with the major talent agencies is spilling into the guild’s upcoming franchise negotiations with the Hollywood studios. In a message sent Wednesday by WGA West President David A. Goodman and WGA East President Beau Willimon, they revealed the writers guild’s 2020 MBA Pattern Of Demands ahead…

The WGA's demand for more streaming residuals from the studios could set the stage for the first industrywide strike in more than a decade. And it's not just that writers are in a fighting mood after feuding with the agencies for more than nine months: there's big money at stake – and not just from the ever-growing…

During his TCA executive session, NBC boss Paul Telegdy addressed the possibility of a writers' strike in 2020. Telegdy, who became sole Chairman of NBC Entertainment in October, admitted that the network is remaining cautious and will be prepared in case of industrial action. He said that NBC is "one of a number of…

The WGA West is reporting that "record numbers of members are currently employed" as the guild prepares for its upcoming negotiations for a new film and TV contract. Guild leaders, however, say that "individual writer compensation is not where it should be, with too many members working at or close to minimum." The…

With the end of the WGA’s current film and TV contract with AMPTP only five months away and no talks on the horizon, the TV studios are starting to prepare for a potential strike. It has become standard procedure for the major TV companies to make arrangements for a possible work stoppage every time the writers…

The American Federation of Musicians failed to achieve its main goal in its recently concluded negotiations for a new film and TV contract – winning residuals for musicians' work on episodic TV shows made for streaming services. Even so, the 80,000-member union says it will keep fighting for those payments when the…

UPDATED with comment from union president: The American Federation of Musicians has reached a tentative deal for a new film and TV contract with management's AMPTP. The new two-year deal still must be ratified by the union's members. "The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and the American Federation…

The WGA has appointed the members to its negotiating committee in the run-up to its talks with management's Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers for a new film and TV contract. See the list below. The current pact expires on May 1. No date has been set for the talks to begin, and it's not clear whether…

Vivian Lien has been promoted to VP Labor Relations at the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers – the trade association that represents the major studios in their contract negotiations with Hollywood's labor unions. Lien joined the AMPTP in 2013 as counsel before being promoted to Senior Counsel in…

In its efforts to "divide and conquer" Hollywood's talent agencies while preparing for negotiations for a new film and TV contract, the WGA told its members today that it "continues to have useful discussions with several individual agencies. All of them have asked for confidentiality, and honoring those requests is…

The WGA is gearing up for what promises to be a contentious negotiation for a new film and TV contract amid its ongoing battle with Hollywood's talent agencies, which is now in its seventh month. The guild's current pact with management's AMPTP expires on May 1, and the WGA soon will be holding membership meetings to…