A-listers are getting concerned within the SAG-AFTRA strike. Per Deadline, George Clooney met together with his union’s leaders on Tuesday to debate what occurred when negotiations broke down between SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP on Wednesday, October 11.
Clooney reportedly spoke with SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Eire over Zoom about why negotiations fell aside between the studios and the actors union. Clooney has been significantly concerned within the strike, donating $1 million {dollars} to the SAG-AFTRA Basis earlier this summer season. Per Deadline, different A-listers together with Emma Stone, Ben Affleck, and Tyler Perry have been additionally current for the assembly. The actors have been reportedly most all for discussing the revenue-sharing proposals the SAG-AFTRA negotiating committee put earlier than the AMPTP and the 4 studio chiefs Discovery’s David Zaslav, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, NBCUniversal’s Donna Langley and Disney’s Bob Iger who have been current on the October 11 assembly.
In a press release, SAG-AFTRA confirmed {that a} assembly befell however would neither affirm nor deny who attended the digital assembly. “We meet with members of all profiles day by day, and we received’t be commenting on these non-public conversations,” mentioned a union spokesperson.
On October 11, the AMPTP introduced that it suspended conversations with the actors union, saying that “the hole between the AMPTP and SAG-AFTRA is simply too nice, and conversations are now not shifting us in a productive path.” The studio pointed to SAG-AFTRA income share, which seeks to create a brand new pool of cash for actors whose work seems on streaming providers. The proposal, which the AMPTP discovered unreasonable, would cost streaming providers a set quantity per subscriber. That quantity, the studios say, would end result within the studios hemorrhaging over $800 million a 12 months, which might create an “untenable financial burden.”
Nonetheless, the actors union says that quantity is fake. In a press release launched the following day, the SAG-AFTRA’s negotiation committee mentioned the businesses have been “overstating it by 60 p.c.” The 2 sides are nonetheless break up on a variety of points, together with using AI and minimal wage bumps. Nonetheless, Crabtree-Eire instructed THR that he was “stunned” that the studios walked away from the negotiating desk, saying that the assembly was pretty typical and that SAG-AFTRA’s revised proposal was “an enormous, enormous concession.”
“We now have made massive, significant counters on our finish, together with utterly reworking our revenue-share proposal, which might price the businesses lower than 57¢ per subscriber annually,” mentioned the guild in an e-mail despatched on October 12. “They’ve rejected our proposals and refused to counter.” The e-mail went on to accuse AMPTP of utilizing “bully ways” and “the identical failed technique they tried to inflict on the WGA.”
