Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Tony Vinciquerra on SAG-AFTRA Strike: ‘We Want to Go Back to the Table and Get This Settled’
variety.comNick Vivarelli International Correspondent Tony Vinciquerra, chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures, took a guarded tone in talking about the SAG-AFTRA strike during an industry panel in Italy on Friday.
But it was clear that he hopes it will be over soon. “We are very dismayed about having these strikes” said Vinciquerra, referring to the combined WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes that mark the second time in Hollywood history that actors have joined writers on the picket lines. “We want to make a deal,” the Sony chief went on, adding: “Even though there have been a lot of headlines saying the opposite.” “We need to make a deal and we want to make a deal,” Vinciquerra reiterated. “We value our actors because obviously they are very important partners to us.
We want to go back to the table and get this settled quickly.” “The thing that really troubles me though,” the Sony chief said, “Is all the people that are out of work that don’t have a dog in this hunt with the unions.
They just can’t work, and that is just a very bad side effect of all this.” Vinciquerra – who was holding an onstage conversation at the Audio-Visual Producers Summit in Trieste, Italy, with producer Tarak Ben Ammar, whose Italian outfit Eagle Pictures releases Sony movies in Italy – also pointed out that “Now that SAG has gone on strike, we will have the ability to start finding ways to get back into negotiations with WGA.
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