The Hollywood directors union gave its final approval on Friday to the new collective agreement signed with the Alliance of Film and Television Producers (AMPTP), avoiding a strike. that would have occurred while the writers union maintained its strikes.
Something is beginning to move in Hollywood and brings hope to film and television viewers, although the conflict with the scriptwriters still persists and with it, the fear of delays it causes in productions.
The new agreement for directors will last 3 years and was approved by 87% of the members of the “Director’s Guild of America” ??(DGA), collects the CNN network.
“Our new agreement ensures gains in wages, streaming residuals, safety, diversity and creative rights,” union president Lesli Linka Glatter said.
The text includes salary increases of 5%, 4% and 3.5%, respectively, for each year in force. It also states that it will not be able to replace the tasks that directors perform with artificial intelligence (AI), and prohibits live ammunition in recording studios.
In addition, and for the first time, the agreement includes payments for what are known as residuals -the money received by the members of a work team each time their projects are broadcast- from the “streaming” platforms, calculated based on the number of international subscribers.
Many of these issues are also key points in the demands of the scriptwriters and the main union of film and television actors, SAG-AFTRA, which at the beginning of the month agreed to go on strike if it does not reach a new collective agreement before next Friday. .
However, the demands of the writers also include aspects such as the minimum number of writers that must be hired while a project is being developed, one of the main points of friction with the studios.
The writers’ strike is already making its effects felt on the industry and the production of series such as “Stranger Things”, “Cobra Kai” or “The Last of Us” has had to be paused.
