The latest meeting between Hollywood's striking screenwriters and top executives from Disney, Universal, Warner Bros. and Netflix has ended in an impasse.
The latest meeting between Hollywood's striking screenwriters and top studio executives ended in an impasse.
But talks remain deadlocked after an offer from studios to raise wages, improve work conditions and curb - to an extent - the use of artificial intelligence was rebuffed in the meeting late Tuesday. The writers' strike, which since mid-July has been accompanied by an actors' strike, has brought much of the film and television industry to a standstill, costing Hollywood millions of dollars a day.
Lombardini said that the studios and streaming platforms proposed a reasonable offer, including a 13% increase in the minimum wage for writers over three years. As streaming has become more popular, residuals for shows on those platforms have lagged behind traditional television residuals - a key sticking point in negotiations.