EXCLUSIVE: More than 2,300 film and TV producers on Tuesday are delivering a message to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers: leave us out.

The group delivered a petition to AMPTP President Carol Lombardini this morning demanding the dropping of the “P” from the acronym of the organization that just concluded a brutal negotiation with the WGA, and hopefully is in the final stages of a SAG-AFTRA deal after one of the longest strikes in Hollywood history.

Taking them out of a labor fight they were never part of is just the first step in what producers hope will lead to a redrawing of rules that leave them without health care, and being the last to be paid despite them being the early catalysts for film and TV projects.

The producers have amassed 2,338 signatures since June, when they first posted a petition on Change.org. The document has been signed by many heavyweights including Andrea Sperling (Transparent), Bonnie Curtis (Saving Private Ryan), Cathy Schulman (The Woman King), Dede Gardner (12 Years a Slave), Grant Heslov (Argo), Guymon Casady (Game of Thrones), Jason Reed (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), former MGM Motion Picture Group president and Glickmania principal Jonathan Glickman (Creed III), Jennifer Fox (Nightcrawler), Fred Berger (La La Land), AMPAS president Janet Yang, Blumhouse’s Jason Blum, Lynette Howell Taylor (A Star Is Born), Mark Vahradian (Transformers), Nina Jacobson (The Hunger Games), Mollye Asher (Nomadland), Wyck Godfrey (The Twilight Saga), Todd Garner (Mortal Kombat), Peter Saraf (Little Miss Sunshine), and Kimberly Steward (Manchester by the Sea) to name just a few.

2,000+ Top Producers Sign Petition To Drop Second “P” From AMPTP, Part Of Larger Push To Address Inequities; Cathy Schulman, Jason Blum, Dede Gardner, Todd Garner Among Signees

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