WGA leaders met face-to-face with key CEOs on Tuesday evening as executives sought to pitch the guild on their most recent contract offer in the hopes of ending the nearly four-month-old strike. Late Tuesday, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers released details of the contract offer presented to the WGA on Aug. 11.
The AMPTP emphasizes that the offer includes substantial gains in minimums, a commitment to a minimum 10 weeks of employment for most TV series writers and writer-producers and a hike in the formula for foreign residual payments for streaming platforms.
It’s understood that executives including Disney chief Bob Iger, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav and Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos met with WGA representatives at a location outside of AMPTP headquarters in Sherman Oaks. The CEOs sought to express their commitment to bringing the strike, now in its 113th day, to an end. It’s unclear how this charm offensive was received by the guild leaders in attendance.
“Our priority is to end the strike so that valued members of the creative community can return to what they do best and to end the hardships that so many people and businesses that service the industry are experiencing. We have come to the table with an offer that meets the priority concerns the writers have expressed. We are deeply committed to ending the strike and are hopeful that the WGA will work toward the same resolution,” said Carol Lombardini, president of AMPTP, in a statement included with the contract offer details.
A WGA spokesman did not respond to a request for comment late Tuesday.
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