Informal WGA Talks Set to Begin

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The communications impasse between the Writers Guild of America and Hollywood’s majors has finally ended, Variety reports.


Following Thursday’s deal between the DGA and the AMPTP, insiders said top execs of the entertainment congloms reached out to WGA leaders.


Those conversations are expected to lead to an informal face-to-face session this week, possibly as early as Tuesday. It would mark the first sitdown between the two sides since AMPTP reps broke off the last round of formal bargaining on Dec. 7.


Participants will likely include, for the guild, WGA West prexy Patric Verrone, exec director David Young and negotiations committee head John Bowman and, on the AMPTP side, News Corp. prexy Peter Chernin and Walt Disney Co. CEO Robert Iger.


Informal talks would replicate the strategy the AMPTP followed with the DGA, during which Chernin and Iger met with a handful of guild leaders to hash out numerous issues in an effort to make the formal bargaining sessions more productive.


Some prominent members of the WGA have stepped up efforts to prod WGA leaders to embrace the terms of the DGA pact. Former WGA West prexy John Wells told Daily Variety that the gains achieved by the DGA made for “a genuinely landmark deal” that surpassed his expectations.



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