Discovery boss David Zaslav called for Hollywood to work together to end the writers and actors strikes, which have crippled Hollywood and which WBD this week said could cost the company as much as $500 million this year.
“We really have to focus as an industry, and we are, on trying to get this resolved in a way that’s really fair,” Zaslav told the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference on Wednesday.
As soon as the strikes are resolved, he said, “everybody is ready to get back to work, us in particular.”Warner Bros.
SAG-AFTRA, which represents about 160,000 actors, joined the writers on strike on July 14.
We need to do everything we can to get people back to work,” Zaslav said.
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David Zaslav, “, ” Zaslav, Goldman Sachs, Warner, Mario Anzuoni, Reuters “, Shawn Fain, doesn’t
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CNN, Warner Bros, Hollywood, Technology, The, Guild of America, SAG, Writers Guild of America, Netflix, Reuters, “, ” Unions, Teamsters, UPS, United Auto Workers, GM, Ford, UAW
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Hollywood, Los Angeles , California, U.S