It’s officially official: The Writers Guild of America has agreed to a tentative new four-year contract with the studios and streamers, said the Greg Hessinger-led Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and the guild tonight. The shocker deal, which was on very few people’s Holy Week and/or Passover bingo card, could prove transformative for […]

Scabby the Rat and about a dozen members of the Writers Guild Staff Union are still outside SAG-AFTRA headquarters on Wilshire Boulevard this afternoon as inside the WGA and the studios wrapped up their first day of contract talks. “What do we want?,” a throng of striking staffers chanted earlier Monday starting around 11:30 am […]

The Writers Guild of America West has sweetened its offer to the 110-member staff union that has been on strike since mid-February. But with only a couple of days left before the WGA begins its negotiations with the major studios on a new Minimum Basic Agreement, the two sides have still not resolved their differences. […]

Like the DGA, the Writers Guild of America West doesn’t seem inclined to accept longer contract cycles with the major studios any time soon. “I think, in this period of significant change, the notion of talking less or putting more years in between when the companies address changes and the needs of the workers strikes […]