With pressure mounting from many external forces on both parties and after silence from both after more than a week, it seems there’s progress again on attempts to end the actor’s strike.
Both the actors union SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) have announced that they will return to the negotiating table this Tuesday, October 24th.
The talks will reportedly take place at SAG-AFTRA Plaza and several executives from AMPTP member companies will be in attendance.
The two broke off discussions on October 11th, at the time the AMPTP saying that the gap between both sides was ‘too great’ to continue discussions. The biggest clash seemed to be over a revenue-sharing proposal from SAG-AFTRA on streaming.
At the time the union wanted to put a set 2% fee per subscriber on streamers and divide those funds up between actors whose projects appear on these platforms. The AMPTP outright rejected that proposal.
Netflix’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos told a Bloomberg conference the following day that it was essentially a per-subscriber levy and “a bridge too far to add this deep into the negotiation”.
The biggest message ringing out from everyone though, from actors to politicians and industry legends, is that both sides need to get back to the table and continue talks.
Source: THR
