AMPTP members, check your emails! below is a copy of MY latest full update on the state of negotiations with the WGA cc Deadline Variety The Hollywood Reporter Puck The Ankler

🎶grim grinning ghosts/come out to socialiiiiiiiiiize🎶

What's frustrating, when you look at the self-inflicted debt and chaos these companies are experiencing now, is that gutting writing staffs in no way can generate enough money to make a difference. The smartest thing would be to let the machine that made millions hum along.

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BREAKING: 150,000 members of United Auto Workers have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. With 97% voting yes, the UAW now has the power to strike at Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis. The autoworkers could launch this massive strike as soon as September 15th.

American Airlines flight attendants just voted YES (99.4% ‼️) to authorize a strike. WGA members showed up nationwide in support of Association of Professional Flight Attendants’s fight for a fair contract. Fly the union skies ✈️ #1u

Is it just me or is there a ton of potential reputational, strategic, and financial upside available to the first studio head who publicly breaks with the AMPTP and makes a deal with the writers?

after a long and at times tense meeting yesterday the CEOs were finally able to come to a consensus on our strategy moving forward: we’re pleased to announce that the AMPTP will rebranded as AMPTP+. all the feckless intransigence you’ve come to know and love, plus so much more

When will Hollywood’s dual strikes end? ⁦Phil Rosenthal⁩ offers his thoughts.

as this very specifically-worded press release says, we are united, we are collectively choosing to lie about waiting for a WGA response even though the ball is in our court, and we continue to trust/hope that ted sarandos will somehow save us all. we’re thriving!

When you have to insist you are united, even as you bad mouth each other privately & look for someone to blame, you really are telling everyone - "we are in big trouble"

Dominic Patten what the hell man I thought you were my boy

STAND UP. #StandUpUAW

On Strike at the Big Three. Stand Up Strike. Support the strikers. Grab a support graphic for your timeline. #StandUpUAW #OnStrike #StandUpStrike

The messaging discipline is absolutely incredible. Nothing distracts him from the key points: rising profits, stagnating wages, and escalating class conflict

Four years ago, Jan Nash Matt 竹次郎 Bosack and I started something very special. We joined with an incredible cast, amazing writers and crew... and gathered in Hawai'i to make a show. But ended up creating an ohana. I'm so grateful to you all. deadline.com/2024/04/ncis-h…

Tough news but congrats to my friend Matt 竹次郎 Bosack on a great run!

11:11 save ncis hawaii #NCISHawaii #SaveNCISHawaii