Editors be aware: One in a sequence of tales marking the a centesimal day of the WGA strike.

The writers strike has hit Day 100 – the purpose at which the final walkout by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) resulted in 2007/08.

It’s a major juncture, one which Chris Keyser and David A. Goodman, who co-chair the WGA’s negotiating committee, name a “milestone of disgrace” for the AMPTP.

It additionally comes 5 days after the newest try and get either side again to the negotiating desk.

That assembly between the WGA West’s Chief Negotiator Ellen Stutzman and her Common Counsel Tony Segall and AMPTP boss Carol Lombardini and her staff wasn’t as productive as many had hoped.

Whereas the WGA, late on Friday evening, revealed that there was “no settlement” on resuming negotiations for a brand new MBA and, in a caustic be aware to members mentioned that the “AMPTP playbook continues”, there have been causes to be extra optimistic than at first look.

For those who ignore the furor round press blackouts and commerce leaks, the WGA acknowledged that it was “keen to interact with the businesses and resume negotiations in good religion to make a good deal for all writers”.

The AMPTP was additionally keen to extend its provide on just a few writer-specific TV minimums and talk about AI.

There’s a “nice need to forge forward” with official talks, in response to one studio insider, and don’t be shocked to see one other invite prolonged to renew such discussions quickly.

Because the writers anticipate that invitation, there are conversations happening between studio executives and Lombardini and her staff on the AMPTP discussing the newest state of play, having seen a preview of the problems all sides intends to deliver again to the desk upon resumption.

There are, clearly, nonetheless many points that must be resolved in some type; the studios proceed to balk on the subject of writers’ room staffing sizes and success-based residuals, though the latter is much less particular than the actors’ performance-based asks.

The truth that the AMPTP is utilizing the deal that the Director Guild of America (DGA) struck as a foundation for talks has additionally not gone down nicely with writers.

However the writers themselves have added a few issues to the agenda. There’s the difficulty of a well being care profit extension and extra plan funding. The guild can also be searching for the suitable for particular person WGA members to honor the opposite unions’ picket strains, which — given the actors walkout — appears each sophisticated and one thing that may make it arduous for individuals to return to work.

Keyser and Goodman, in a press release supplied to Deadline to mark Day 100 of the writers strike, mentioned, “The refusal to take writers’ cheap proposals critically has precipitated the WGA strike to final 100 days and counting; it serves solely as a milestone of disgrace for the AMPTP. They and their member studios are wholly answerable for the over three-month shutdown of the trade and the ache it has precipitated employees and all others whose livelihoods will depend on this enterprise. The price of settling the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes is way lower than the injury their intractability has precipitated. Finally, the studios haven’t any selection however to make a good deal. Till then, we stay resolved and united.”

Rob Forman, who’s loads coordinator at NBCUniversal, Co-Chair of the LGBTQ+ Writers Committee and is working for the WGA West’s board of administrators, mentioned Day 100 is a “bizarre milestone”.

“That is only a very completely different negotiation [compared to 2007/08] as a result of the enterprise mannequin has modified a lot. If it takes 100 days, 150 days, 200 days, writers and actors are going to be out right here to mandate a good contract that displays the brand new enterprise mannequin that the CEOs of the AMPTP firms have adopted and that all of them say is about to show worthwhile. They’re telling that to Wall Avenue buyers, so the individuals, the creators, the employees who’re delivering that profitability by creating the content material for them, we have to see the fruits of that labor,” he instructed Deadline on the NBCUniversal picket on August 4.

Michele Mulroney, a VP of the WGAW, mentioned writers have been nonetheless feeling “sturdy”. “In fact, we want that for the final 100 days we’ve been doing what we like to do, which is writing however sadly, you realize, we’ve been pressured out on strike and we now have grow to be very clear over the past 100 days. We’ve received much more readability about what writers want than we had on day one. The guild is extra united than it’s ever been,” she added, talking on the NBCUniversal picket on August 4.

To mark the truth that the writers have been strolling the picket strains for the final 100 days – that means that the 2023 strike will now be longer than the 2007/08 motion and is 53 days away from changing into the longest within the guild’s historical past, Deadline is highlighting a few of the key tendencies, figures and subjects dominating the strike.

There shall be a take a look at the impression on the film enterprise and the problems dealing with characteristic movie screenwriters. We’ll additionally profile the strike regulars which were pounding the pavement daily since Could and we’ll rank the completely different studio picket strains from essentially the most fascinating to essentially the most chaotic.