LogInThe strike has been ongoing for 90 days, will it ever come to an end?
In a recent development, negotiations between SAG-AFTRA, the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and AMPTP, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, have collapsed, with the major studios stating that the differences between the parties are insurmountable, "too great". Following this, the union released a statement accusing the studios of employing "bully tactics" and claimed that they had abruptly left negotiations after rejecting the union's latest offer. Expressing deep disappointment, the union called upon its members to demonstrate solidarity by joining picket lines.
One of the main issues at hand is SAG-AFTRA's demand for royalties from streaming revenues generated by studios from movies and TV shows. The AMPTP argues that fulfilling this demand would cost companies $800 million annually, deeming it an unbearable economic burden. Moreover, the parties were unable to reach agreements on other matters, such as the terms of AI use and increasing minimum wages.
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers maintains hope that the actors' guild, SAG-AFTRA, will reconsider their decision and resume productive negotiations. While SAG-AFTRA has not provided any comments on the producers' statement, the actors' strike has persisted for 90 days and is nearing the duration of the 1980 protests, which lasted 95 days.
Image credit: HBO, The Last of Us
Well, we hope that the conflict will be resolved and each party will be satisfied with the outcomes. However, until the strikes continue, we won't see The Last of Us season 2 since the creators said that the series would be "ready to go" once the ongoing Hollywood strikes were over. They also added the following.
"We were able to map out all of season 2. And I also wrote and submitted the script for the first episode and sent it in [to HBO] around 10:30 or 10:40 p.m. right before the midnight [makes a "kajoomph" sound] and the [WGA] strike began," said Craig Mazin, the Co-creator, Co-writer, and Executive Producer of the series.
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