Lions Gate Signs as WGA Talks Go On

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With Hollywood holding its collective breath, WGA leaders and moguls provided another slice of optimism as they continued to meet informally for a third straight day to hammer out a conclusion to the three-month writers strike, Variety reports.


Talks remained under a news blackout Thursday with another session planned for today — giving rise to hopes that the de facto negotiations are productive enough developing sufficient momentum to lead to the resumption of formal negotiations.


The WGA trumpted a pair of interim deals Thursday with Lionsgate, the largest indie producer, and superhero specialist Marvel Entertainment. The new pacts give the WGA a dozen such deals as part of its “divide and conquer” strategy to put pressure on the majors to accept the guild’s terms.


“Lionsgate is considered a leader in the industry and its signing an interim agreement again confirms that it is possible for writers to be compensated fairly and respectfully for their work and for companies to operate profitably,” said WGA West prexy Patric M. Verrone and WGA East prexy Michael Winship.


Lionsgate’s pact with the WGA is the first of the guild’s interim deals to make a dent on the scripted primetime series side, because Lionsgate at present is the only distrib beyond the majors that is deficit-financing scripted series.


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