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Writers Guild Suggests Studios Should Split From Streamers in Latest Update on AMPTP Standoff
(www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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The union leaders then floated the idea that member companies break off from the AMPTP, which counts the production subsidiaries of Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Disney, Warner Bros.
Industry workers are facing eviction notices and in some cases are living in cars and with their families as the work stoppages drag on, Entertainment Community Fund executive director of the western region Keith McNutt recently told THR.
Through the AMPTP, these legacy studios and streamers negotiate as a united front which allows hard liners to dictate the course of action for all the companies.
In contrast, during individual conversations with legacy studio executives in the weeks since SAG-AFTRA went on strike, we have heard both the desire and willingness to negotiate an agreement that adequately addresses writers’ issues.
So, while the intransigence of the AMPTP structure is impeding progress, these behind-the-scenes conversations demonstrate there is a fair deal to be made that addresses our issues.
Given the outsized economic impact of the strikes on the legacy companies, their individual studio interest in making a deal isn’t surprising.
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