Hollywood is in trouble. Big Trouble. Although the writers strike is still on, it seems that The Directors Guild of America is set to start negotiations with the AMPTP for a better deal as well.
Slice of Sci-Fi gives us this:
DGA leaders said they’re willing to hold off negotiations until next month in order to give the majors and striking writers one last chance to make a deal — in a nod toward recent WGA lobbying to hold off negotiations, according to the entertainment trade paper Variety.
“The WGA-AMPTP impasse has cost the jobs of tens of thousands of entertainment-industry workers, including many of our own members, and more lose their jobs every day the strike continues,” they added. “With so much at stake and no end to the standoff in sight, we can no longer abdicate our responsibility to our own members. Because we want to give the WGA and the AMPTP more time to return to the negotiating table to conclude an agreement, the DGA will not schedule our negotiations to begin until after the new year and then, only if an appropriate basis for negotiations can be established.”
Although it’s good that the DGA is waiting until the New Year to negotiate a new agreement, it still is not good for Hollywood. The WGA-AMPTP feud has not shown any hope of ending anytime soon, and this is only going to foreshadow what is going to happen with the DGA. I feel that if the AMPTP is not going to budge for the WGA, they won’t do so for the DGA. (This is a very scary thought.)
Here’s also another thought. SAG’s contract also ends in June and needs to be discussed. Since the actors have been siding and supporters of The WGA strike, that could mean actors, writers, and directors will be out of a job come this summer. (Another scary thought.)
Should we be renaming Hollywood to ‘Ghost Town?’ What are your thoughts?
