David Zaslav: Even With a Writers Strike, Max Streaming Launch Is ‘Ready to Go Guns Blazing’
thewrap.comMax streaming service, the CEO says that his company is hoping for the best but prepared for the worst as a potential writers strike in Hollywood looms ever closer. “Everybody needs to feel fully valued from start to finish.
I think our objective, that everybody gets fairly compensated for the work that they do,” Zaslav said at a press conference Wednesday on the Warner Bros.
lot. “We’re optimistic that we can get through this in a way that’s fair to all parties involved.” But if the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers — which represents Warner and other major studios — can’t reach a tentative agreement by the May 1 deadline, Zaslav says that next month’s launch of Max will go forward as planned. “We have a lot of content that’s been produced.
We are launching a product on May 23, so we are ready to go guns blazing in terms of our product and our platforms around the world,” he said.
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