Directors Back In The Labor Spotlight As DGA Deal Ruffles Feathers In Hollywood
deadline.comThe Hollywood labor community is up in arms again after the Directors Guild of America (DGA) made a number of retroactive additions to its film & TV contract with the studios.
The deal, which was revealed yesterday and gives directors a streaming performance bonus that matches that of the writers, has sown more discontent across town.
Sources tell Deadline that other guild leadership was blindsided by the move, which came more than six months after the DGA struck its original deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).
It also would have required both parties to agree to return to the bargaining table, a move that was kept incredibly quiet. But sources on the studio side indicate this shouldn’t come as a shock to the rest of the labor community. “I’m surprised anyone is surprised about this,” one studio executive told Deadline of the new provisions. “We were always going to offer the directors at least parity with whatever the writers got.
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