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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.

AMPTP president and chief negotiator Carol Lombardini. Photo: Spencer Weiner/Getty Images
Matthew Belloni
August 4, 2023

This probably won’t shock you, but Carol Lombardini didn’t want tomorrow’s meeting with the Writers Guild to happen. On a call last week with the studio and streamer leaders, and their top labor executives, the AMPTP president and chief negotiator is said to have advised against sitting down now with the striking writers to feel out a path toward restarting negotiations, according to three sources familiar with the call. (The AMPTP declined to comment.)