[Archive 2023-08-09] US: Writers, entertainment producers' groups meet two months into writers' strike; writers' says 'no agreement'

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The WGA claimed the AMPTP planned to propose the parties replicate, on issues common to both disputes, the AMPTP agreement with the Directors Guild of America in June. The WGA has rejected this idea.

The AMPTP has rejected the WGA's proposals on the writers' room question as a "hiring quota".

The WGA memo said if it and the AMPTP come to agreement first, it planned to let members continue striking until actors' union SAG-AFTRA's dispute also concluded.

After the meeting, the WGA said the AMPTP demanded a media blackout on it but leaked word to industry magazines.

Alliance President Carol Lombardini, the AMPTP's top representative at the meeting, initially said it should not occur; among them Sony Pictures CEO Tony Vinciquerra, studio officials pressed her to go forward with talks, according to a Friday morning piece in Puck.

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