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Carol Lombardini

SAG-AFTRA is expected to respond or counter the offer as early as Monday.
Jonathan Handel • November 6, 2023

What’s Holding Up an Actors’ Strike Deal

An inside look at the negotiations surrounding the A.I. issue and others that are preventing the SAG-AFTRA strike from (finally) coming to an end.
Jonathan Handel • August 6, 2023
The Writers Will Script This Strike Ending
When the meeting arrived, WGA chief negotiator Ellen Stutzman and general counsel Tony Segall told Lombardini there would be no further negotiations unless the companies were willing to engage with all of the guild’s demands
With the AMPTP chief reluctant and the Writers Guild recalcitrant, Friday’s meeting was doomed from the start. A historical look at why Hollywood union bargaining is so difficult.
Matthew Belloni • August 3, 2023
The Studios-Streamers Coalition of the Willing
Why the AMPTP finally agreed to sit down with the Writers Guild and how there’s reason to be cautiously optimistic for Hollywood’s labor breakthrough of the summer.
Are studios, like those under David Zaslav’s WBD, at least somewhat incentivized to wait out the strike?
Matthew Belloni • May 4, 2023
Harsh Realities of the Writers Strike
The WGA is winning on social media, but the streamers have the upper hand, the studios are leaning on the Directors Guild, and it’s still too early for a Lourd or an Iger to intervene—meaning this situation will need to get a lot worse before it gets better.