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AFTRA And Studios Reach A Deal; Actors’ Consent For Online Usage Agreed To - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 28 May 2008 10:21 AM PST

One more hurdle left, with SAG, but the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists has agreed to a tentative deal with Hollywood studios on a new three-year contract. The…

SAG: Ask Actors Before Posting Clips Online - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 18 May 2008 11:25 PM PST

The Screen Actors Guild is holding firm on its major demand of asking for actors consent for clips of their film and TV work to be posted online by the…

Actors Agree on Talk Extensions; SAG Drops DVD Residual Rate Demands - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 02 May 2008 03:28 PM PST

The Screen Actors Guild has agreed to extend the ongoing contract talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers until Tuesday next week, after the first three weeks…

Screen Actors Guild Contract Negotiations: “Reasonable” Asks On Digital Media - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 24 Apr 2008 11:30 PM PST

As the slow burn negotiations between Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers continue, the actors union has outlined why it thinks the digital media…

DGA Deal Ratified By Members - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 20 Feb 2008 10:01 PM PST

The Directors Guild deal with the producers, with the major focus being on digital media, has now been ratified by the members. This was the deal that set the grounds…

WGA Sets Strike-Ending Vote For Tuesday; Leaders Voted Unanimously For Deal Today - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 10 Feb 2008 02:39 PM PST

The governing bodies of the WGA unanimously approved the draft deal today but the strike remains in effect. The membership will vote on the proposed agreement Tuesday—and writers on strike…

WGA Tentative Agreement: Language On New Media - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 09 Feb 2008 11:50 AM PST

In the tentative WGA-AMPTP agreement, the exact language on the most contentious issue of online residuals: -- The minimum for derivative dramatic programs is $618 for programs up to two…

WGA Sends Deal Draft To Members; Writers Could Be Back At Work By Monday If There’s Enough Support - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sat 09 Feb 2008 10:27 AM PST

Movement in the writers’ strike overnight: An anticipated draft deal (see below) went out to the WGA membership early this morning for discussion at meetings being held in New York…

Updated: Writers Strike Sees A Breakthrough; Deal May Come Next Week; Modeled On DGA Pact - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 03 Feb 2008 07:17 PM PST

Updated below: The informal talks between WGA and AMPTP have reached a crucial stage and a deal may come as early as next week, report AP and NYT, citing sources.…

Writers and Producers Will Start Informal Talks Tomorrow; Reality Representation Demands Pulled - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 22 Jan 2008 05:51 PM PST

The Writers Guild of America and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers will hold informal talks beginning Wednesday, reports B&C, and in a hopefully major concession, WGA will drop…

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Writers And Studios To Restart Negotiations By Tuesday - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 19 Jan 2008 11:29 AM PST

A day after DGA reached an agreement with the producers, the Writers Guild is ready to get back on the table with AMPTP: WGA leaders plan to meet as early…

DGA-AMPTP Deal: Full List Of New Media Provisions - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 17 Jan 2008 06:56 PM PST

From the official fact sheet released by DGA, the full list of new media related provisions in the agreement (read our news story on the deal): New Media Jurisdiction over:…

Directors, Studios Reach ‘Tentative’ Three-Year Deal; Residual Rate For Paid Downloads ‘Doubled’ - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 17 Jan 2008 03:27 PM PST

Possibly setting some kind of record for speed, the Directors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have a three-year deal after just five days of official…

Directors Guild To Start Negotiations With Producers; Could Settle For Smaller Online Residuals - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 11 Jan 2008 07:51 PM PST

The Directors Guild of America will start contract negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers by tomorrow...this is before AMPTP has a deal with the writers guild.…

WGA Seeks Separate Negotiations Wth Studios; Agreeement With Letterman Imminent - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 16 Dec 2007 05:20 AM PST

Divide and rule, sort of: WGA will now try to negotiate with film and TV producers and studios individually after failing to reach agreement with AMPTP directly, as the Hollywood…

Uglier By The Day: WGA Files Labor Complaint Against Producer Alliance; Breaking Off Talks ‘Illegal’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 13 Dec 2007 11:09 PM PST

It is getting uglier by the day: the WGA has filed an unfair labor practices complaint claiming studios and AMPTP violated federal law by breaking off negotiations...it said that producers…

Hollywood Strike Talks Break Down, Again - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 07 Dec 2007 10:14 PM PST

Earlier this week, it looked like the striking writers had reached some common ground with the producers in Hollywood, but today the talks collapsed, the culmination of a day in…

Writers Guild: Latest Round of Strike Talks ‘Substantive’ - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 06 Dec 2007 08:40 AM PST

Another tiny morsel of positive news today on the writers’ strike: In a brief statement, the Guild described the latest round of talks as “substantive,” for the first time since…

Writer’s Strike Parties Talking, Not Agreeing - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 05 Dec 2007 05:08 AM PST

The two parties in the writer’s strike are celebrating an advance in talks—or more accurately, the fact that they’re talking at all. Yesterday the Writer’s Guild of America “presented its…

‘Progress’ In Talk Between Hollywood Producers and Writers; WGA Calls It ‘Massive Rollback’ - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 29 Nov 2007 06:55 PM PST

Looks like some progress in the Hollywood talks between producers and writers: “The AMPTP today unveiled a New Economic Partnership to the WGA, which includes groundbreaking moves in several areas…

Hollywood Talks To Resume Monday; Three Day Window Or 2008? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 25 Nov 2007 09:13 PM PST

The two sides in the Hollywood drama will come to the table tomorrow, at an undisclosed location, to talk for three days and figure out a way out of the…

Writers and Producers Will Start Talk Again Starting Nov 26th - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 16 Nov 2007 11:12 PM PST

Some hope before Thanksgiving is always good: the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have agreed to resume formal talks starting Nov. 26.…

Writers’ Strike Begins; Could Last Months - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 05 Nov 2007 01:22 AM PST

With no agreement in sight on compensation for DVD sales and online distribution, members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) started to strike at 12:01 a.m. Monday. Picketing is…