Sony CEO Tony Vinciquerra Says Offer To SAG-AFTRA Was “Best Ever Made” — AVP Summit

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Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman and CEO Tony Vinciquerra has claimed the AMPTP offer made to the actors union was “the best offer that has ever been made to the SAG-AFTRA group.” In a wide-ranging fireside chat at the Audio-Visual Producers Summit in Italy, Vinciquerra said he was “dismayed” by the labor strikes in LA and added: “We don’t want the strikes to continue.

It’s not good for anyone.” He repeated several times throughout the chat that the studios wanted to “make a deal.” “We entered the talks intending to make a deal,” he said. “There have been lots of headlines saying the opposite, but that is not true.

We want to get this done and we want on get back into negotiations…We need to get this settled. We want to get back around the table.” Last month, SAG-AFTRA claimed the AMPTP, which represents the studios and streamers, “wouldn’t meaningfully engage on the most critical issues,” as we reported.

The AMPTP responded by saying the SAG “mischaracterize[d] the negotiations.” Asked whether he expected production levels to rise in Europe while the strikes continue, Vinciquerra said: “The natural thing that’s happened is European production is ramping up, but we haven’t seen anything tangible yet [in regards to the strike].” Since the actors strike began, many European producers have been assessing whether their projects could find American partners as the days, weeks and months go by.