Apple became the latest entertainment company to suspend further overall and first-look deals this month as WGA strike passes the four and a half month mark. As with other recent suspensions Disney, NBCUniversal, Warner Bros. TV and CBS Studiosproducers who do not write and who are currently not providing services are affected due to the ongoing strikes WGA and SAG-AFTRA. According to Deadline, among the few suspended agreements are agreements with MountainA From Natalie Portmanthe company he founded with producer Sophie Mas, and Hyperobject Industries from Adam McKay. An Apple spokesman declined to comment.
Some of the streamer’s high-profile deals with non-writer producers are still in the works as they work on projects including Game tone From Tom Hanks AND Gary Goetzmanwho is behind the next Apple series Masters Air. Also to Martin Scorsesewho signed a film and TV deal with the streamer in 2020, is busy completing and promoting his next Apple film. The killers Flower Moon.
Disney disqualifications announced earlier this weekincluding agreements with Gina Rodriguez and former actors This is us Justin Hartley, Milo Ventimiglia and Mandy Moore on 20th television, Yara Shahidi and Mark Webb in ABC Signature, as well as Hiro Murai, Billy Porter and Stacey Sher at FX Productions. The studios will pay affected assistants until the end of 2023, and development executives until the first week of October.
WBTV disqualification list big names included How Greg Berlanti, Bill Lawrence and Mindy Kaling. NBCUniversal Studios – both film and television – have suspended their contracts. for Broadway video by Lorne Michaels and Seven Bucks Prods Dwayne Johnson, among the others. CBS Studios has suspended deals with companies including Phil McGraw’s Stage 29 and Devon Franklin’s Franklin Entertainment. The firm will also continue to pay assistants on suspended fixed-term contracts until the end of 2023.
Television studios initiated the first wave of suspensions of first-line and general deals (mostly with writers) in early May, just days after the WGA strike began. There have been more suspensions over the past two months as more producers have completed work on shows amid industry production shutdowns.