The Hollywood Reporter: Some of Hollywood’s top leaders — Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, Disney CEO Bob Iger, and NBCUniversal Studio Group chairman and chief content officer Donna Langley — are attending Monday’s negotiating session at the SAG-AFTRA national headquarters on Wilshire Boulevard, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The performers union noted in a statement on Sept. 27 that “several executives” from member companies of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers would be attending, though the union at that point did not specify who.
1 comment:
For the sake of everyone in the industry, I hope AMPTP executives accept the conditions of SAG-AFTRA so the industry can start returning to full working capacity. Something that I had not heard about was that WGA had executives come to their boardroom instead of going to the usual AMPTP conference room in a shopping mall. While it is a small thing, it definitely indicates a power dynamic. I wish the article went more in depth about why it is significant that no Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service mediators will be present at Monday's meeting. Something I’m interested in seeing pan out is how SAG-AFTRA will include rules around the use of AI. Based on the contract WGA just signed, the conversation on AI is happening in all different industries, but it seems to be that WGA’s contract is the first to have something protecting creators from AI replacing their work as well as protecting past work from being used to teach AI.
Post a Comment