Hollywood Studios Claims They Supplied Writers a $97 Million Wage Enhance

The Alliance of Movement Image & Tv Producers, which represents Hollywood studios in contract talks with hanging writers, stated it supplied wage will increase of near $97 million (about Rs. 792 crore). That is greater than double the $41 million (about Rs. 335 crore) the writers declare they’re being supplied, the studios stated in an announcement Thursday.

The Writers Guild of America, which represents some 11,500 screenwriters nationally, went on strike Tuesday, knocking late-night speak exhibits off the air and threatening the manufacturing of a whole lot of TV packages and movies, together with ones for the upcoming fall season. Their talks broke down on Monday after six weeks of negotiations.

The writers stated earlier this week that they are in search of minimal staffing ranges and employment phrases on TV sequence. The union needs not less than six writers on an episodic TV present and commitments for 13 weeks of labor on packages made for streaming.

The studios stated Thursday they could not help these requests.

“If writing must be achieved, writers are employed, however these proposals require the employment of writers whether or not they’re wanted for the artistic course of or not,” their assertion stated.

One other flash level is the usage of synthetic intelligence in screenwriting. The guild is asking the studios to not use the know-how. The studios stated the problem raises “onerous, necessary artistic and authorized questions.”

Writers need to use synthetic intelligence software program of their work, however AI materials cannot be copyrighted, the studios stated. Solely writers might be paid for scripts and AI-generated materials wouldn’t obtain writing credit score, in keeping with the studios.

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