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Hollywood Writers, Studios Fail to Restart New Contract Talks
- Three-month walkout has shut down US film, TV production
- Both sides were expected to resume discussions Friday
Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild members with supporters on a picket line outside Sony Pictures Entertainment studios in Culver City, Calif., on July 21.
Photographer: Eric Thayer/BloombergScreenwriters and the group representing big Hollywood studios failed to resume talks about a new contract Friday after the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers said it needed to consult with members.
The two groups met Friday for confidential discussions to lay the groundwork for official negotiations, which included requests from studio representatives for a press blackout among items, according to the Hollywood actors’ union. The guild later accused the other side of leaking details of the meeting.