Hollywood directors union manages to reach agreement while screenwriters remain unemployed

The Hollywood Directors Guild gave its final approval this Friday to the new collective agreement signed with the Alliance of Film and Television Producers (AMPTP), avoiding a strike that would have occurred while the scriptwriters union maintains its strikes.

The new agreement will last for 3 years and was approved by 87% of the members of the “Director’s Guild of America” ​​(DGA), reports CNN.

“Our new agreement ensures earnings in salaries, streaming residuals, security, diversity and creative rights”, said union president Lesli Linka Glatter.

The text includes salary increases of 5%, 4% and 3.5%, respectively, for each year in force. It also states that it will not be able to replace the tasks that directors perform with artificial intelligence (AI), and prohibits live ammunition in recording studios.

In addition, and for the first time, the agreement includes payments for what are known as residuals -the money received by the members of a work team each time their projects are broadcast- from the streaming platforms, calculated based on the number of international subscribers.

Many of these issues are also key points in the demands of the scriptwriters and the main union of film and television actors, SAG-AFTRA, which at the beginning of the month agreed to go on strike if it does not reach a new collective agreement before next Friday. .

However, the demands of the writers also include aspects such as the minimum number of writers that must be hired while a project is being developed, one of the main points of friction with the studios.

The writers’ strike is already making its effects felt on the industry and the production of series such as “Stranger Things”, “Cobra Kai” either “The Last of Us”.

WITH INFORMATION FROM EFE.