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CAA’s Bryan Lourd Wants A Deal With WGA Over Packaging; Believes Movie Going Isn’t Dead, But COVID-19 Has “Permanently Changed” Behavioral Patterns
Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticBryan Lourd stepped out today from behind the CAA curtain to express both hope for a post -COVID-19 return of movies and the theater going experience and an agreement with the WGA over the contentious practice of packaging – if the Guild will pick up the phone. “I fully expect that at some point in the near future we won’t be suing each other and we won’t be not talking to each other – that’s up to them,” the uberagency co-chairman told Ken Ziffren Wednesday evening in a virtual keynote for the 44th Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium.
