WGA-Producers May Be Close to an Agreement
by Andre Soares
Rebecca Winters Keegan in Time:
"Despite rumors and media reports of a deal struck over the weekend, WGA presidents Patric Verrone and Michael Winship e-mailed their members Sunday, saying, ‘We are still in talks and do not yet have a contract… Picketing will resume on Monday.’ The Alliance of Motion Picture Television Producers (AMPTP) also waved off reports of a done deal, though an AMPTP source said to ’stay tuned.’
"WGA negotiators are expected to bring the union’s board of directors a rough contract on Monday, the result of recent bargaining sessions attended by News Corp chairman Peter Chernin, Walt Disney chief executive Robert Iger and WGA negotiators David Young, John F. Bowman and Verrone. The negotiators have used the contract producers struck with the Directors’ Guild of America last month as something of a template. That deal doubles residual payments for films and TV shows sold online and grants the union jurisdiction over shows created for the Internet."
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Nikki Finke has been following the WGA strike at Deadline Hollywood.
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