5 Days to End the Strike: When Writers and Studios (Finally) Hit a Contract Breakthrough

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Months of standoff were broken once Hollywood’s CEOs presented the counteroffer WGA was looking for

Hollywood CEOs and WGA lead negotiators during strike
Hollywood CEOs and WGA lead negotiators during strike

If it’s possible to pinpoint an exact moment when the writers strike that was once feared to extend into 2024 reached the beginning of the end, it was on Wednesday, Sept. 20, when the Writers Guild of America negotiators received what they had been demanding for four months: a full counterproposal. 

“My first thought was, ‘My God — f—ing finally. Finally they get it,” WGA negotiating committee member Adam Conover told TheWrap. “They get what they have to do.”

On that day, the WGA met with four Hollywood CEOs from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) at the latter’s headquarters at the Sherman Oaks Galleria.

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