Directors and Producers reach ‘tentative agreement’

The Directors Guild of America (DGA) has reached a tentative agreement on the terms of a new three-year labor contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) — a deal that could potentially spur striking writers to press their own WGA negotiators to make a deal ending their now 11-week-long strike.

“Two words describe this [the directors' and producers'] agreement — groundbreaking and substantial,” GIL CATES, chair of the DGA’s Negotiations Committee, tells ET. “The gains in this contract for directors and their teams are extraordinary — and there are no rollbacks of any kind.”