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EXCLUSIVE: (Updated with a correction: The AMPTP can talk with the WGA while negotiating with the DGA, we regret the error) With the clock ticking and writers out on the picket lines all over town, the Directors Guild of America and the studios are far from even the framework of a deal. Two weeks…

UPDATED with more details: Picket signs are being prepared to possibly hit the streets next week, but talks between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers appear to have taken a productive turn in the past 24 hours. After a new proposal from the studios…

UPDATED with latest: Talks between the WGA and AMPTP will continue on Wednesday. As Deadline revealed on Friday, the two sides were scheduling more conversations during their previously planned two-week break. This comes as the guild scheduled its strike authorization vote earlier this week after saying…

Just hours before the WGA and the studios are scheduled to start stridulous talks on a new overall contact, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have decided to publicly play nice, firmly. "The AMPTP companies approach this negotiation and the ones to follow with the long-term…

EXCLUSIVE: The WGA is planning a series of meetings with top tier showrunners this week as it looks to rally the troops and gain support ahead of its negotiations with the AMPTP. Deadline understands that the guild, including leadership and executive director David Young, is holding two meetings…

Scott Rowe has been named communications consultant for the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, succeeding Jarryd Gonzales in the role. Rowe's appointment comes as the AMPTP is heading into what could be contentious contract negotiations next year with the WGA, SAG-AFTRA and the…

EXCLUSIVE: Lindsay Dougherty, the newly re-elected leader of Hollywood's Teamsters Local 399, sees the Teamsters becoming "a more militant union," and is already looking ahead two years to when the local's film and TV contract will be up for renegotiation. The current contract, which she negotiated last summer with…

EXCLUSIVE: Negotiations for a new film and TV contract covering Hollywood's Teamsters Local 399 and the Basic Crafts unions have taken a hiatus for the holidays. The talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers got underway on December 6, and both sides agreed Thursday night to come back to the…

Just over 48 hours before the deadline for a strike that will shut most of Hollywood down, IATSE struck both optimistic and unsentimental tones this evening as talks with the AMPTP have wrapped for the day. "So, to repeat, we're still at it," Local 800 national executive director Chuck Parker told members Friday night…

EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood is on the precipice tonight as talks between IATSE and the AMPTP continue in the hope of averting a strike early next week that could bring most of the industry to a standstill. "Assume there will be a strike and hope there isn't," Local 800 members were told this afternoon in the first of two…

UPDATED with Matthew Loeb’s full message to membership: IATSE has told its members that ongoing negotiations with the AMPTP for a new film and TV contract are "fluid" and that members should "disregard any information you read in the press as it is not necessarily an accurate representation of what is actually…

IATSE and the AMPTP are "still talking" and are expected to return to the virtual bargaining table again Friday. Armed with strike authorization from his members, IATSE president Matthew Loeb can call a nationwide walkout of film and TV workers at any time if he and AMPTP president Carol Lombardini can't reach a fair…