Writers Strike Comes to an End?

A tentative deal to end the WGA strike...will it fail? The Kubrick reboot with Pesci, and Pearlman, a new Dan Harmon show, and sleepwalking with parasites.

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A tentative deal to end the WGA strike...will it fail? The Kubrick reboot with Pesci, and Pearlman, a new Dan Harmon show, and sleepwalking with parasites.

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WRITERS STRIKE COMES TO A CLOSE

A David and Goliath battle ended Sunday night after 146 days.

On one side WGA members protested oppressive salaries, non-existent residuals, and studio threats that their work would be replicated by AI.

On the other side the AMFTP. Cue the Bernard Herrmann score.

AMFTP leaders including Disney’s Bob Iger, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery & the CCO of NBCUniversal radified deal points with union leaders at the AMFTP offices late Sunday.

The marathon five-day deal, which was briefly stalemated over the weekend as WGA leaders struggled to shore up loopholes that would allow studios to use AI to supplement writer duties and cut their members out of jobs, appears to be resolved.

While the union now faces the arduous tas…