WGA Negotiators Say, "It's About Compensation"; Weinstein Seeking New Legal Team; 'Shazam' Red Carpet Floods

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View on web New reader? Subscribe SUBSCRIBE. IT'S FREE. WGA negotiators ON UPCOMING CONTRACT TALKS: "IT'S ABOUT COMPENSATION, COMPENSATION, COMPeNSATION" Chris Keyser, Ellen Stutzman and David A. Goodman Say There Is A List Of Things That Can no longer Be Put Off Leaders of the Writers Guild of America won’t discuss the specifics of the contract proposals they’ve exchanged with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers. But in an interview with Deadline on Tuesday ahead of next week’s start of negotiations, they made it perfectly clear a deal can be reached without a strike if the companies take the needs of writers seriously. “We want to make a deal. It’s our goal to make a deal,” said Chris Keyser, co-chair of the WGA negotiating committee and a past president of the WGA West. “But just as important, there are lists of things that need to be accomplished for writers that cannot be put off any more. We need a partner to do that – the AMPTP – and we’ll see starting next Monday what their response is.” Based on a WGA bulletin issued yesterday – the third this month – the WGA is not seeking a mere adjustment in the way writers are paid, but rather a complete overhaul of the pay scales it had bargained for with the AMPTP in recent years. Joining Keyser in the interview was Ellen Stutzman, the WGA West’s assistant executive director and chief negotiator who’s subbing for executive director David Young, who’s on medical leave; and former WGA West president David A. Goodman, who also co-chairs the guild’s negotiating committee. >>>Read The Q&A Deadline Exclusives & Originals Legal Drama - Deadline has confirmed that Harvey Weinstein is seeking a new legal team to lead his Los Angeles rape verdict appeal. Weinstein is said to be reaching deep into the West Coast legal community in the hope to overturn last year’s verdict which resulted in a 16-year sentence. >>>Top Lawyers React Something Had To Give - Following news last week that Netflix and director Nancy Meyers were at a crossroads over the budget on her next film, sources close to the situation say the streamer has decided to part ways with the project. Sources now say that while the studio was fine with $130 million, Meyers was fighting for $150 million, with $80 million of that going to above-the-line costs. >>> Another Studio Or Streamer? B.O. Jolt - New Line’s Covid-delayed DC sequel Shazam! Fury of the Gods finally will hit theaters this weekend in 77 offshore territories and the U.S. with a global outlook between $80M-$85M — $35M of that coming from domestic. >>>China An Issue BBC In "Sorry" State Amid Strike  - The BBC has apologized to viewers for disruptions caused by the biggest strike by its workers in 13 years. Around 1,000 National Union of Journalists members put down their tools for 24 hours starting at 11AM local time and the BBC has acknowledged that it will be a difficult day. In an email to staff obtained by Deadline, Jason Horton, the BBC’s Director of Production for local services, said it would be a “hard moment for everyone” and urged people to treat each other with “kindness and respect.”>>>Disrupted coverage Riske/Reward - Christopher Reich’s Simon Riske book series is headed to the screen as Netflix has re-teamed with Edward Berger, the Oscar-winning director, co-writer and producer of the streamer’s All Quiet on the Western Front, on a drama series adaptation, sources tell Deadline. Berger is set to direct the international spy thriller, in early development at Netflix UK, which is being written by Rowan Joffe. >>> Four-Book Series In Brief - New podcast will revisit Ronni Chasen’s murder...Dev Patel to star in The Key Man for Miramax Television...Running Wild’s Bear Grylls working on doc from son Jesse Grylls for Outdoors.com DEADLINE VIDEO INTERVIEW MTM At SXSW: Lena Waithe & Mary Tyler Moore’s Husband Join For HBO Documentary About One Of Entertainment’s All-Time Greats With unprecedented access to the Mary Tyler Moore Estate, friends, family and colleagues, Being Mary Tyler Moore constructs an intimate mosaic of Mary’s sixty-year career in show business. The film reveals a complex icon, full of compassion, empathy and inspirational abilities, despite battling her own demons.  Dr. S Robert Levine, executive producer, subject and widower of Mary Tyler Moore: "A number of people after Mary died had come to me and they asked about doing a biopic of her and I just said no. And it was, I think, an April 2018 cover story of Vanity Fair that featured Lena [Waithe]. And she just mentioned as part of the interview that she’d really love to do something about Mary. And that moved me because here is someone who’s coming up in the business, who’s completely different than Mary and yet is influenced by her. And I wanted a new voice to tell Mary’s story." >>>Watch BY THE NUMBERS $8 billion - The amount of debt that Diamond Sports Group, which owns Bally Sports, is looking to eliminate through bankruptcy Casting About Exclusive Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield are in negotiations to star in StudioCanal’s We Live In Time, sources tell Deadline. John Crowley is on board to direct, with Nick Payne penning the script. StudioCanal developed the script and will produce with Sunny March. Exclusive Mila Kunis has been set to star opposite Michael Keaton in comedy Goodrich from writer/director Hallie Meyers-Shyer. Keaton plays an art dealer whose life is upended when his second wife leaves him and he takes charge of their nine-year-old twins. Kunis will play his grown and pregnant daughter whom he leans on for support. Amy Pascal is executive producing alongside Keaton and Kunis.  Exclusive Vanessa Hudgens is set to reprise her role as weapons expert Kelly in Bad Boys 4 with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. The movie is in pre-production at Sony Pictures with Bad Boys for Life directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah returning to helm from a script by Chris Bremner.  Sex/Life star Sarah Shahi is set as the lead in and also will produce Judgement, ABC’s drama pilot from former Charmed showrunner Joey Falco and 20th Television. Jason Ritter has been cast as a lead opposite Kathy Bates in CBS pilot Matlock, a new take on the classic legal drama. This one hails from Jane the Virgin creator Jennie Snyder Urman and NCIS: Los Angeles star Eric Christian Olsen. In Brief - Judy Greer is joining Ellie Kemper in ABC’s Drop-Off (w/t), a comedy pilot based on British series Motherland… Nathalie Emmanuel is set to join The Killer for Peacock and will star opposite Omar Sy in a leading role… Alfred Molina has boarded indie dramedy When We Get There; Mindy Sterling and William Katt are also set. Hirings, Promotions & Exits BBC World News Host Laura Trevelyan Quits Weeks After Apologizing For Her Family’s Slavery Links Hello Sunshine Hires Disney Exec Lauren Kisilevsky To Run Live-Action Family Programming More News ⚖ Alec Baldwin has just won another round with the Santa Fe District Attorney in the criminal case over the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in October 2021. Less than two weeks before a hearing on a motion by the actor’s legal team to disqualify the special prosecutor, the special prosecutor herself suddenly has quit the high-profile case. 🎥 Sources tell Deadline that Quentin Tarantino is set to direct The Movie Critic, which is based on an original script he penned. No studio is attached. Plot details are being kept under lock and key other than that it is focused on a female film critic in the 1970s. 🤖 Jeremy Podeswa (Station 11, Game of Thrones) is joining Prime Video’s limited series Blade Runner 2099 to direct the pilot and serve as producing director. He will also serve as executive producer.  In Brief - A League Of Their Own will end with a four-episode second season at Prime Video...YouTube TV added a "Multiview" feature, which lets viewers see up to four separate linear feeds in one frame, on the eve of March Madness and as it prepares to take over NFL Sunday Ticket in the fall. Trending   True Detective buddies Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson are reuniting for an untitled comedy/odd-couple love story that revolves around the "strange and beautiful bond" between the pair.   🔻 Meta Platforms will cut another 10,000 jobs and undergo a hiring freeze as part of what CEO Mark Zuckerberg is calling the "Year of Efficiency" for the tech giant. Obituaries 🕯 John Jakes, the bestselling author of historical novels whose books The Bastard and North And South were adapted into highly rated TV movies and miniseries in the 1970s and ’80s, died Saturday at a hospice facility in Sarasota, Florida. He was 90.  🕯 Bob Goody, veteran British stage and screen actor and co-writer of 1985 BBC1 comedy Wilderness Road , has died at age 71. He passed away March 5 after a long battle with cancer that he chronicled in a book of verse. 🕯 British film industry veteran Leslie Hardcastle, former controller of the British Film Institute’s National Film Theatre, has died. He was 96. 🕯 Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2023: Photo Gallery & Obituaries On the Radar Wed - NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament begins; Ted Lasso S3 premiere Thu - March Madness tips off; Taylor Swift kicks off The Eras Tour Fri - St. Patrick's Day Sun - Lucky Hank premieres Mon - WGA & AMPTP contract talks begin Photo of the Day Wet Carpet - The heavens opened up not long before the premiere of Shazam! Fury of the Gods last night in L.A., forcing workers to trade vacuums for squeegees as they tried to spruce up the red carpet in time for the event.  This email was sent to punjabsvera@gmail.com by Deadline. Please add email@email.deadline.com to your address book to ensure delivery to your inbox. Visit the Preferences Center to update your profile and customize what email alerts and newsletters you receive. Copyright © 2023 Penske Business Media, LLC. 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