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Sep 24, 2023 11:39AM ET
let them talk for years. who cares.
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No deal yet as Hollywood writers, studios talk for third straight day
Published Sep 22, 2023 11:57PM ET
Updated Sep 23, 2023 09:30AM ET
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: SAG-AFTRA actors and Writers Guild of America (WGA) writers walk the picket line outside Disney Studios in Burbank, California, U.S., July 25, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
By Lisa Richwine and Dawn Chmielewski
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Striking Hollywood writers and top studio executives met for a third straight day on Friday, ending with a decision to continue talks on Saturday as they try to end a work stoppage that has shut down film and TV production for months.
While workers across the entertainment industry waited for word of the outcome, no agreement was announced as the strike reached its 144th day.
The WGA said in a statement early on Saturday that the two sides would meet again on Saturday.
Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS) CEO Bob Iger, Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) Co-CEO Ted Sarandos, Warner Bros Discovery (NASDAQ:WBD) CEO David Zaslav and Donna Langley, chairman of Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA)'s NBCUniversal Studio Group, took part in the talks with the Writers Guild of America (WGA) for a third day.
Representatives for the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents the studios, had no comment.
While the two sides met, union members turned out in large numbers in response to an appeal from WGA negotiators on Thursday to flood picket lines outside the studios.
In the crowd outside Netflix on Friday was "Mad Men" creator and writer Matthew Weiner, who like others voiced optimism that the recent talks signaled progress was being made.
"I'm hopeful," Weiner said of the possibility that the strike could be coming to an end. "I would like to go back to work and I would like to start mending these relationships."
Roughly 11,500 WGA members walked off the job in May, demanding higher pay and residuals in the streaming TV era plus limits around the use of artificial intelligence.
Producer and WGA member Al Septien, also picketing outside Netflix on Friday, said he wanted to get back to work, but only under the right terms.
"We've been out here a long time. We don't want to fold for a less-than-fair and good contract for the writers,” he said.
The SAG-AFTRA actors union also is on strike after walking off the job in July.
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Comments (8)
dylan mulvaney
Sep 23, 2023 10:41AM ET
Good, who cares, they have no leverage. If truck drivers stopped working, the country would implode in 24 hours. With Hollywood writers, all it means is less pedophiles are grooming children.
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Mark Jannetty
Sep 23, 2023 10:41AM ET
just use foreign writers and actor's. I am sure actor's from other countries would love to make what our over priced actor's make
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Maximus Maximus
Sep 23, 2023 10:41AM ET
yeah, like the russian t(rolls) pretending to be Americans...
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Steve Bojo
Sep 23, 2023 10:37AM ET
Haven’t noticed, haven’t cared. No effect on life
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Steve Bojo
Sep 23, 2023 10:35AM ET
“Learn to code” - Joe Biden
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Warm Camp
Sep 23, 2023 9:38AM ET
Can they switch jobs with UAW folks? No one will see any difference.
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Brad Albright
Sep 23, 2023 9:38AM ET
Quite unlike the skills it takes to click your inheritance around from fund to fund.
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Warm Camp
Sep 23, 2023 9:38AM ET
Brad Albright You should look for a rich transgender to adopt you, bradie.
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Maximus Maximus
Sep 23, 2023 9:38AM ET
don't mind 'warm camp'.. he's the victim of a failed s.ex-change operation and is lashing out at anyone still in possession of their s.exual organs...
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LimitUp
Sep 23, 2023 1:10AM ET
Who gaf, Hollywood is dead
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Derick Lim
Sep 23, 2023 12:50AM ET
Talk till the cow fly over the moon
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