Negotiating Committee Member Adam Conover On Battle Over AI & Preservation Of The Writers Room, AMPTP Using DGA To “Undercut” WGA
deadline.comWriter-comedian Adam Conover, creator and host of Adam Ruins Everything and member of the WGA Negotiating Committee, had been outspoken on social media in the run-up to the guild’s talks with AMPTP, the collective bargaining representative of the major Hollywood studios.
On the first day of the writers strike, Conover called out Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav while appearing on the company’s network CNN this morning, saying that Zaslav “was paid $250m last year, a quarter-of-a-billion dollars.
That’s about the same level as what 10,000 writers are asking him to pay all of us collectively.” Conover didn’t mince words in an interview with Deadline either.
While on the WGA picket line in front of the Netflix offices, he gave his blunt assessment of the failed negotiations with the studios and their stance on AI and had a warning for the DGA, which is starting negotiations with AMPTP next week. DEADLINE: A lot went down in the past 24 hours.
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