Writers Guild Says It's Not Close to Deal With WME, CAA:
After agreeing to terms with ICM and UTA, the union's negotiating committee claims,"we’ve now gone about as far as we can go" with the holdout talent firms.
CAA and WME have yet to agree to terms with the union on once again representing writers, with both packaging fees and affiliate production remaining a point of conflict. "We’ve had cordial discussions with both WME and CAA. We wish we could say we’re close to a deal, but we’re not," the Writers Guild letter reads.
"WME and CAA chose to sit out the negotiation for well over a year, hoping members would give up, and relying on a lawsuit that won’t even go to trial, if at all, until summer 2021. To be blunt, we’re not going to give them a different and better deal because they waited; we’ve now gone about as far as we can go," the letter adds."We’re not going to keep pushing back the sunset period on packaging. We’re not going to allow more than 20% ownership of a production studio.
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