![]() The severe method comes out of the guild’s successful battle with the agencies in 2021 over dismantling the lucrative practice of packaging. RELATED: SAG-AFTRA Preparing Picket Signs As Possible Strike Looms In that context, the studios and streamers feel they would be in a position to dictate most of the terms of any possible deal. The studios and streamers’ next think financially strapped writers would go to WGA leadership and demand they restart talks before what could be a very cold Christmas. One insider called it “a cruel but necessary evil.” Acknowledging the cold-as-ice approach, several other sources reiterated the statement. ![]() “The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,” a studio executive told Deadline. To do so, the studios and the AMPTP believe that by October most writers will be running out of money after five months on the picket lines and no work. Receiving positive feedback from Wall Street since the WGA went on strike May 2, Warner Bros Discovery, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Paramount and others have become determined to “break the WGA,” as one studio exec blatantly put it. RELATED: What Happens To Hollywood (And Beyond) If The Actors Go On Strike “Nobody wanted a strike, but everybody knew this was make or break.” ![]() “It’s been agreed to for months, even before the WGA went out,” one executive said. They also confirm that the plan to grind down the guild has long been in the works for a labor cycle that all sides agree is a game-changer one way or another for Hollywood. While some dismiss this as just “cynical strike talk,” studio and streamer sources around town confirm the strategy. ![]()
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