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A continuously updated list of articles about resuming production post-COVID-19.

In a total package valued at a record-breaking $318 million, SAG-AFTRA has reached a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on successor agreements covering motion pictures, scripted primetime dramatic television and new media production.

“I attribute everything that has gone wrong to coronavirus,” Mr. Katzenberg said in a video interview. “Everything. But we own it.”

SAG-AFTRA and major motion picture and television studios will commence bargaining on April 27, the union and studio alliance said in unexpected news. The move means that the AMPTP is effectively pushing aside the WGA.

OSHA is maybe going to take the position that it is not the employer’s job to ensure that workplaces are safe. The next relief bill is going to say that employers are not liable. My job is to stand up, very specifically, for actors and stage managers.

How long can studios hold idled actors to their contracts and what, if anything, must the studio pay them for the hold?

The WGA told its members that the COVID-19 crisis has increased its resolve to advance the bargaining goals it intends to pursue with management’s AMPTP for a new film and TV contract.