What’s Going On With the Writers’ Strike, Why Isn’t It Ending?

It’s been over 110 days and counting since the writers’ strike began and its end is nowhere in sight. Recently, the WGA received an invitation to meet with Bob Iger, Donna Langley, Ted Sarandos, David Zaslav, and Carol Lombardini, and the industry waited with an abetted breath to hear the outcome of this meeting.

Turns out it wasn’t a negotiation to end the strike, but to get WGA to agree to studios’ demands. End point, no agreement was reached. So what’s next?

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After being lectured on how good the AMPTP’s single and only counter-offer is for writers in an attempt to get them to cave in, further negotiations halted.

According to media reports, Disney CEO Bob Iger was “personally offended” that WGA didn’t agree to their latest offer, while Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos feared that agreeing to the deal will trigger a chain reaction that will see other writers and actors in other territories asking for fair deals.

In case you don’t already know, writers are asking for 0.18% of a studio’s annual salary, and Bob Iger, the guy who blasted the strikes as “not realistic,” makes over $25 million annually.

However, he softened his tone ahead of the negotiations during August 9’s quarterly earnings calls. “Nothing is more important to this company than its relationships with the creative community.

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That includes actors, writers, animators, directors and producers,” Iger said. “I have deep respect and appreciation for all those who are vital to the extraordinary creative engine that drives this company and our industry. And it is my fervent hope that we quickly find solutions to the issues that have kept us apart these past few months. And I am personally committed to working to achieve this result.”

Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish spoke on August 7 of being “saddened that, as an industry, we couldn’t come to an agreement.”

According to reports, studios are interested in reaching an agreement and ending the strike as soon as possible.

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