LOS ANGELES : The Hollywood writers' strike marks 100 days on Wednesday with contract talks stalled and people on the picket lines protesting what they describe as a disregard for their demands. The strike began on May 2 after negotiations between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the major studios
LOS ANGELES : The Hollywood writers' strike marks 100 days on Wednesday with contract talks stalled and people on the picket lines protesting what they describe as a disregard for their demands.
Entertainment industry executives have been trying to navigate the cross-currents of declining television revenues, a movie box office that has yet to return to pre-COVID levels, and streaming businesses that are largely struggling to turn a profit. A meeting last week to discuss resuming talks between the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers , the group representing the major studios in negotiations, resulted in no firm date for returning to the bargaining table.
Prestwich said studio executives are supposed to be writers' creative partners, as they have in the past.The three-month-long strike has occasionally taken on the rhetoric of class warfare, with writers assailing the media executives' compensation. As with past writers' strikes, this job action responds to Hollywood capitalizing on a new form of distribution - and writers seek to participate in the newfound revenue.
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