{"id":565562,"date":"2026-04-05T06:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/565562\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T06:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:59:07","slug":"wga-officially-confirms-deal-with-amptp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/565562\/","title":{"rendered":"WGA Officially Confirms Deal With AMPTP"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIt\u2019s officially official: The Writers Guild of America has agreed to a tentative new four-year contract with the studios and streamers, said the Greg Hessinger-led Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers<\/a> and the guild tonight. The shocker deal, which was on very few people\u2019s Holy Week and\/or Passover bingo card, could prove transformative for how Hollywood labor<\/a> works, literally and figuratively.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe AMPTP<\/a> has reached a tentative agreement with the WGA<\/a>,\u201d a spokesperson for the group said tonight. \u201cWe look forward to building on this progress as we continue working toward agreements that support long-term industry stability.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMum on the how long the deal will run for (which could be a hard sell to members), the WGA went online to make it seal the deal publicly.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cToday, the WGA Negotiating Committee\u00a0unanimously approved a tentative agreement with the AMPTP for the 2026 Minimum Basic Agreement (MBA) for a four-year term,\u201d the guild said in a memo to members on Saturday. \u201cCrucially, it protects our health plan and puts it on a sustainable path, with increased company contributions across many areas and long-needed increases to health contribution caps. The new contract also builds on gains from 2023 and helps address free work challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe guild reiterated that messaging in a social media post, which is embedded below.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs we reported earlier on Saturday<\/a>, the agreement between the AMPTP and the WGA, fronted by chief negotiator\u00a0Ellen Stutzman<\/a>, is one year longer than usual. That extended contact has proved a major initiative for the AMPTP with all the Guilds this year \u2014 as Deadline exclusively reported back in December.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tThough it took hours and hours today for the official news to come out, the deal also includes a big infusion of cash (AKA millions and millions of $$$) into the guild\u2019s long troubled health and pension funds, we hear, as the writers\u2019 union indicated in their statement Saturday.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe tentative agreement will have to go before the scribes\u2019 rank-and-file membership for a vote to win approval. That process could take several weeks.<\/p>\n

\n\tConsidering that the WGA was on strike for a historic 148-days in 2023, there was not an expectation that the writers would lead the above-the-line entertainment unions in coming to an agreement \u2014 but clearly, miracles happen, this week and others. <\/p>\n

\n\tDeadline dug into the less contentious mood at the bargaining table this year<\/a>, which a labor source tells us was due in large part to a desire for \u201ca reset in the relationship\u201d from both parties. Particularly, the AMPTP\u2019s new boss Hessinger was looking to cool things off and approach the union with a different tone than his predecessor.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt remains to be seen how this will affect SAG-AFTRA and DGA talks. The actors are expected to restart negotiations in June, but there\u2019s a chance they pick things up earlier since the directors are not scheduled to bargain until May. Both current contracts expire on June 30.<\/p>\n

\n\tTo that the Christopher Nolan-led DGA praised the WGA tonight, as it prepared for a negotiation \u00a0odyssey\u00a0of its own. \u201cThe DGA congratulates the WGA on reaching a tentative agreement with the AMPTP that recognizes the value of their members\u2019 work and helps them build sustainable careers,\u201d the helmers\u2019 union said online Saturday night. Echoing the thoughts of many around town this weekend, the DGA added: \u201cWe look forward to reviewing the details as they become available.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s officially official: The Writers Guild of America has agreed to a tentative new four-year contract with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[231107,249957,88,1929,18220,210512,207050],"class_list":{"0":"post-565562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-amptp","9":"tag-ellen-stutzman","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-labor","12":"tag-wga","13":"tag-wga-east","14":"tag-wga-west"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}