SAG-AFTRA’s Duncan Crabtree-Ireland Clarifies Waiver Process & Why Apple TV+’s ‘Tehran’ Qualified — Comic-Con
deadline.comFollowing SAG-AFTRA’s clearance of AppleTV+’s Israeli spy series Tehran and New Line’s horror movie Watchers –prolific projects from AMPTP studios that the guild remains in talks with– in their interim agreement process, some producers and filmmakers in town have been miffed.
How do some films get the go-ahead to shoot with SAG-AFTRA talent and others do not? Even when it seems like they’re AMPTP-backed projects?
It’s a complicated answer, but SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland told Deadline today at San Diego Comic-Con, “It goes to reflect the complexity and the business relationships and structures in this industry.” Expounding on the process for landing a waiver, the SAG-AFTRA talks boss said, “the terms of the interim agreement are the terms of our last counter-offer to the AMPTP on all the issues in this negotiation.” Things considered per each production are: “who’s eligible for them, fundamentally, are there AMPTP fingerprints on the project or not?
If there aren’t and we verify that through our staff, who review these things, then they’ll be eligible for an interim agreement.” “If there are AMPTP connections to the project, then they won’t be.
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