Producers United’s Policy Revisions Embraced By Warner Bros Discovery, Disney, Paramount, Universal & HBO; Changes In Fee Structure & Healthcare Will Help Career Producers Survive
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: It has only been six months since Producers United launched an appeal to its content-making bosses to stop the systemic erosion facing career producers – those who lead productions, sign the budgets, and whose livings come solely from fees on the projects they produce.
The upstart group has secured commitments to reform their policies from the film sides of Warner Bros Discovery, Disney, Paramount and Universal, and the pay TV network HBO.
The specific reforms will differ slightly because each studio’s embrace was done separately. Bottom line: In a remarkably short amount of time, dramatic improvements have been realized in the areas of commencement wages and healthcare contributions for the career producers that studios count on to make the movies that lines their slates.
Producers United only began formally pitching content makers on reforms that were sorely overdo in April, after Deadline revealed their plans.
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