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\n\tThe Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers issued a rare joint statement after the widely anticipated renewal of talks between the two parties on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThe WGA and AMPTP met for bargaining today and will meet again tomorrow,\u201d the straightforward statement read. Though it\u2019s not atypical during entertainment labor negotiations for a union and the AMPTP to issue a joint statement during talks, often amid some kind of media blackout affecting the two parties, it is unusual for the WGA and the AMPTP to do in this contentious negotiations cycle.<\/p>\n
\n\tTop entertainment company leaders including Disney CEO Bob Iger, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos and NBCUniversal Studio Group chairman and chief content officer Donna Langley joined the negotiations on Wednesday in a sign of a new sense of urgency pervading the discussions. \u201cCEOs have cleared their calendars and want to sit and have a real conversation,\u201d one studio-side source familiar with Wednesday\u2019s session told THR<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tThese executives had cleared their schedules in preparation for the talks to go late, which turned out not to be necessary \u2014 the meeting had ended by the late afternoon. <\/p>\n \n\tWednesday\u2019s gathering marked a return to the bargaining table for the WGA and the AMPTP, whose negotiations reached a standstill in late August following a separate meeting between top WGA leaders and top studio executives. That conference, on Aug. 21, was followed by the AMPTP publicly releasing an earlier proposal to the writers and the writers clapping back by claiming the CEOs had greeted them with \u201ca lecture about how good their single and only counteroffer was.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n #Writers #Guild #AMPTP #Issue #Rare #Joint #Statement #Renewed #Negotiations #Hollywood #Reporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers issued<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2605,2604,1821,2606,2608,2611,2607,2610,1822,2609,1957],"class_list":["post-1622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-news","tag-amptp","tag-guild","tag-hollywood","tag-issue","tag-joint","tag-negotiations","tag-rare","tag-renewed","tag-reporter","tag-statement","tag-writers"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/demo3.aiwalls.com\/thesemovies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2023_05-WGA-01.jpg",1024,576,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/demo3.aiwalls.com\/thesemovies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2023_05-WGA-01-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/demo3.aiwalls.com\/thesemovies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2023_05-WGA-01-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/demo3.aiwalls.com\/thesemovies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2023_05-WGA-01-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/demo3.aiwalls.com\/thesemovies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2023_05-WGA-01.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/demo3.aiwalls.com\/thesemovies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2023_05-WGA-01.jpg",1024,576,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/demo3.aiwalls.com\/thesemovies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2023_05-WGA-01.jpg",1024,576,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/demo3.aiwalls.com\/thesemovies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2023_05-WGA-01.jpg",1024,576,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/demo3.aiwalls.com\/thesemovies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2023_05-WGA-01-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/demo3.aiwalls.com\/thesemovies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2023_05-WGA-01-590x410.jpg",590,410,true],"arpw-thumbnail":["https:\/\/demo3.aiwalls.com\/thesemovies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2023_05-WGA-01-50x50.jpg",50,50,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/demo3.aiwalls.com\/thesemovies\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Movie News<\/a>","tag_info":"Movie News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo3.aiwalls.com\/thesemovies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo3.aiwalls.com\/thesemovies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo3.aiwalls.com\/thesemovies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo3.aiwalls.com\/thesemovies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo3.aiwalls.com\/thesemovies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo3.aiwalls.com\/thesemovies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo3.aiwalls.com\/thesemovies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo3.aiwalls.com\/thesemovies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo3.aiwalls.com\/thesemovies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo3.aiwalls.com\/thesemovies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}