WGA picketing in Los Angeles has been cancelled for this coming Monday out of an abundance of caution as Southern California braces for rough weather. SAG-AFTRA has yet to announce any changes in plans.
Hurricane Hilary is racing up the Mexico coast, and the National Weather Service issued its first-ever tropical storm watch for the Orange County-Los Angeles County area and Catalina Island.
Hilary is threatening to strengthen into a Category 5 storm and is expected to make landfall on Sunday, so further cancellations could take place depending on the level of damage.
The tropical storm formed off the coast of Mainland Mexico and strengthened into a hurricane early Thursday. Remnants of it are expected to hit Los Angeles this weekend with tropical-storm-force winds and very heavy rain.
The writer’s guild plans to resume pickets on Tuesday outside of Disney, NBC Universal, Radford and Warner Bros., Amazon, Fox, Netflix, Paramount, Sony, and TV City.
The news comes as negotiations recently resumed between the Writers Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers who\’ve sat down to try and hammer out a deal multiple times this week. There’s reportedly a renewed sense of pressure to come to an agreement, even as sides remain far apart on key issues.
Source: Variety