Outside Warner Bros. Discovery, WGA negotiating committee co-chair David Goodman also offers an instant reaction to Thursday's response from film studios that included references to future use of artificial intelligence: 'A very telling comment.”
During that Shrine Auditorium gathering, the first of its kind since the strike was called on Monday, guild leadership spoke at length about the issues where the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers remained furthest apart.
“To hear leadership really talk about what it was like to be in the [negotiating] room and to hear the words from them was just mind blowing,” Susan Hurwitz said toon the Thursday picket line at Sony Pictures Studios. A writer-producer whose credits include, Hurwitz also addressed the other unions — the DGA, SAG-AFTRA, IATSE — that have voiced their support of the writers. “I think everybody is more determined to fight,” she added. “For the first time, it really feels we’re all together in this.
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