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Tinseltown Troubles Torment Studios: Earnings Week Ahead

Writers Guild of America members and supporters on a picket line outside Disney Studios in Burbank, California.
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By Gabriel Sanchez, Redd Brown, and Ignacio Gonzalez

August 4, 2023 at 2:05 PM UTC

Updated on

August 7, 2023 at 12:45 PM UTC

This week’s entertainment industry earnings are all about the labor disputes gripping Hollywood, as twin strikes by the Writers Guild of America and actors union SAG-Aftra rage on.

Three months into the work stoppage, the writers union and the group representing studios walked away from the latest attempts to restart negotiations this weekend, all but ensuring that film and TV production in the US stays shut down for the foreseeable future.