SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher and National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland on Friday laid out how the actors’ 118-day strike was ended and their thoughts on the deal with the AMPTP.
09.11.2023 - 02:07 / deadline.com
With SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP having reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, it appears that the long-stalled beginning of Oscar campaign season for the many actors, forbidden from participating in any form of promotion for movies distributed and made by struck studios and streamers, finally can join the party. Until now, the FYC campaigns largely have been fronted by directors, craftspeople and, more recently with the end of the WGA strike, writers. For many voters, however, it is the lure of the stars that fills seats at FYC screening events and gets tune-in to the late-night talk shows and other promotional outlets so often used during the season to bring attention to a contender.
Since the July start of the strike, stars of presumed top-tier contenders from Bradley Cooper to Cillian Murphy to Annette Bening to Margot Robbie to Leonardo DiCaprio have been AWOL on the circuit, absent from the all-important fall festivals and unable to promote anywhere including for film openings, even to the ridiculous SAG Halloween costume ban. Now you can bet the stars will be everywhere in pursuit of that shiny golden statuette known as Oscar and at all stops in between until the Academy Awards finally take place on Sunday, March 10.
There is likely to be an immediate noticeable difference on the circuit. For instance, Warner Bros.’ big Christmas Day release, The Color Purple, will have its big unveiling on November 16 at the Motion Picture Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theatre. Invites only mention its director Blitz Bazawule as participating in the post-screening Q&A but tease there could be others. Now I would guess you can probably expect the cast including Fantasia, Danielle Brooks and Taraji P. Henson and producer Oprah
SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher and National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland on Friday laid out how the actors’ 118-day strike was ended and their thoughts on the deal with the AMPTP.
SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher is speaking out about the union’s new three-year contract with studios, putting an end to the actors strike that lasted 118 days.
The actors are set to vote on the tentative agreement with the studios after the SAG-AFTRA national board approved the deal.
In a full-circle moment, SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher is holding a press conference at 2 p.m. today in the James Cagney Boardroom of the guild’s Wilshire Boulevard headquarters, the same place that she fired up the troops with her strike-launching speech on July 13.
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President Joe Biden weighed in on the tentative agreement to resolve the SAG-AFTRA strike, pointing to it as an example of how “collective bargaining works.”
After 118 days on strike, SAG-AFTRA has officially reached a tentative new deal with studios.
actors’ strike that first began in July.SAG-AFTRA took to social media to announce the end of the strike, writing: “Our TV/Theatrical Negotiating Committee voted unanimously to approve a tentative agreement with the AMPTP [Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers]. As of 12:01 a.m.
SAG-AFTRA says that its tentative agreement with the studios is worth more than $1B over three years and added that it has “extraordinary scope” and “unprecedented provisions”.
Film and TV cameras are finally set to roll again as SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP have reached a tentative agreement. The strike is officially over at 12:01 AM tonight, ending a six-month production pause due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA work stoppages, which eclipsed the length of the Covid-related production shutdown of 2020.
SAG-AFTRA and the studios have finally reached a tentative deal on a new contract after pausing Hollywood for 118 days.
After 118 days of the actors guild being out on strike, SAG-AFTRA and the studios have reached a tentative deal on a new contract that could see Hollywood up and running again within weeks.
EXCLUSIVE: The studios have told SAG-AFTRA they need to come to a deal ASAP to save what’s left of the broadcast season and the 2024 Summer movie slate.
The lead negotiators for SAG-AFTRA and the studios are set to meet later today in what could be the final phase to sealing a new deal and the end to the 117-day actors guild strike.
EXCLUSIVE: A deal may not be in the cards tonight, but SAG-AFTRA and the studios could be heading back to negotiations within hours.
PinkPantheress has revealed that she missed a chance to feature on a Kendrick Lamar track because her phone was on silent.The UK singer-songwriter was speaking in a new interview when she explained that she missed out on a studio session with the ‘Humble’ rapper because she was on a date in the cinema, so she missed the notification.“I’m not trying to date, even though I love dating,” she told iD magazine. She went on to share how she “nearly” featured on a track with Lamar, but missed the studio session after her date had asked that she put her phone in silent during the film.“Oh fuck, I can’t even think about it,” she said.
EXCLUSIVE: Today’s meeting between SAG-AFTRA and an expanded group of studio CEOs has just ended as the guild scrutinizes the AMPTP‘s long awaited response to their last comprehensive counter.
There were tears in Emmerdale this week as Eric Pollard revealed his devastating diagnosis. The character, played by actor Chris Chittell, was seen breaking down to Mandy Dingle as he told her he has Parkinson's disease.
EXCLUSIVE: There’s real movement in talks between SAG-AFTRA and the studios for a new three-year contract,
EXCLUSIVE: “There’s still a lot of work to be done.”