As reported on Saturday evening, it appears the writer’s strike is coming to an end.
On Sunday evening, The Writer’s Guild of America confirmed that a tentative deal had been reached with the Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers.
According to Deadline, both parties broke the stalemate over issues like AI, residuals and writing room staffing levels. In a letter to its members, the guild said: “We have reached a tentative agreement on a new 2023 MBA, which is to say an agreement in principle on all deal points, subject to drafting final contract language”.
Here’s the WGA’s message to its membership, they claim that they got the best deal imaginable, via THR:
“We can say, with great pride, that this deal is exceptional – with meaningful gains and protections for writers in every sector of the membership.”
This has been a grueling five-month stand-off that finally came to an end late last night — 146 days, to be more precise. The ratification process is still ongoing, so the strike has not officially ended just yet, but it will.
Now we have the actor’s union, SAG-AFTRA, still without a deal. Most movie productions still can’t go back to work. The writers coming to an agreement is a positive sign that actors and the studios will want to go back to the negotiating table, sooner rather than later.