DGA Touts “Extraordinary” AMPTP Contract But Not All Members Agree, Calling It “Damage Control”

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EXCLUSIVE: As the writers guild members almost unanimously approved a hard fought new contract with the studios and streamers this week, and the still striking actors are back at the bargaining table today with CEOs, the Directors Guild of America really wants its members to know it got them “extraordinary gains” with their deal early this summer.

But not everyone’s picking up what the DGA is putting down. In an email sent out to the guild’s over 19,000 members earlier today, DGA brass said: “We are extremely proud of the contract we negotiated and you overwhelmingly ratified earlier this year.

That’s why we’ve been discouraged to see a number of recent news articles and social media posts misrepresenting the extraordinary gains we made.” They added of the deal struck with the AMPTP back in early June: “The misguided articles and social media posts that seek to misrepresent our contract and sow division between the Guilds only benefit the studios and streamers.

We can be proud of our contract and at the same time continue our firm support of our sister Guilds and Unions in the fights for their own fair deals.” Read the full DGA email sent out today below “Sounds like damage control if you ask me,” one filmmaker said after receiving the correspondence around noon Wednesday. “The WGA stayed out (on strike) to get what they wanted, SAG-AFTRA are still on strike to get what they want, feels like we settled way too fast.