https://deadline.com/2023/09/writers-strike-deal-wga-studios-1235551531/
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UPDATED with WGA-AMPTP joint statement: The Writers Guild has reached a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to end its strike after nearly five months. The parties finalized the framework of the deal Sunday when they were able to untangle their stalemate over AI and writing room staffing levels. “The WGA and AMPTP have reached a tentative agreement,” the WGA and the AMPTP said in a joint statement this evening. “We have reached a tentative agreement on a new 2023 MBA, which is to say an agreement in principle on all deal points, subject to drafting final contract language,” the WGA told its members in a release, which came just after sunset and the start of the Yom Kippur holiday that many had seen deadline to wrap up deal after five days of long negotiations. Details of the WGA’s tentative agreement haven’t been released, but will be revealed by the guild in advance of the membership ratification votes. Next steps in process will see the Ellen Stutzman-led WGA negotiating committee vote on “whether to recommend the agreement and send it on to the WGAW Board and WGAE Council for approval” in votes tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, the guild said tonight. Another vote by the respective board and council could lift the strike”restraining order” and allow scribes to “return to work during the ratification vote” – a big deal for both the WGA and the studios. Pending those votes, the WGA told its members that it is still on strike, but that all picketing is hereby suspended. |
Noice. This means there's still hope for Sonic 3 making its original December 2024 release. Right now, they're filming what they can without the actors (basically the animal stuff) and the actor's strike shouldn't be far behind.
