Thousands of Writers Guild of America members must ratify the contract union negotiators and studios agreed to in order to get TV and film writers working.
Style is where The Washington Post covers happenings on the front lines of culture and what it all means, including the arts, media, social trends, politics and yes, fashion, all told with personality and deep reporting. For more Style stories,Settling the WGA strike means the writers can resume writing scripts, which should help ease the growing backlog of delayed TV and film projects that have piled up since May.
But the studios won’t be able to film the bulk of their scripted projects, including franchise movies and sitcoms, until they settle a dispute with a much larger union: the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, which ordered tens of thousands of TV and film performers to withhold their work in July.
That’s why the crisis in Hollywood could linger for weeks or months. It took the studios nearly two months to reach a tentative deal with the WGA after the two sides. The renewed talks began haltingly, with little progress and mutual finger-pointing, before concluding in an extended stretch of closed-door meetings this week that included chief executives from Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, NBCUniversal and Netflix — a sign of how badly the studios want the writers back on the job.
In contrast, the studios haven’t yet requested a meeting with SAG-AFTRA negotiators, the actors union’s executive director and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland said before the WGA deal was announced, though the union says it’s ready to talk.
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