The Directors Guild of America and the bargaining group representing studios and streamers have reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year contract.
The agreement was announced Tuesday after a little less than a month of talks between the Directors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Entertainment Producers. The union did not mention any details about the deal before review by its National Council.
If approved by the board, the exact details of the agreement will be released to members, the DGA said. The agreement will then be sent to members of the DGA, a roughly 19,500-strong group of assistants, assistant directors, assistant directors, unit production managers and stage managers, for a vote on ratification. The parties’ current deal is scheduled to expire on June 30.
“AMPTP is pleased to reach a tentative agreement with the DGA. We appreciate the hard work and commitment of our guild partners in achieving a fair deal that helps promote a stable and successful entertainment industry,” AMPTP said in a statement on Tuesday.
The DGA entered negotiations on May 11 with a focus on creating favorable conditions to enhance employment opportunities for its members. In 2024, the association saw a 35 percent decline in employment in television and an 8 to 12 percent decline in film, DGA President Christopher Nolan said. Hollywood Reporter Earlier this year. (At that time, data for 2025 was not yet available.) While the union was actively advocating for a federal tax incentive in Congress, it was also planning to bring proposals to the negotiating table with the studios.
Partly because of this downturn in business, the DGA has also sought to strengthen its union health plan, which is funded in part by employer contributions when members work. The consortium aims to increase those contributions while also recognizing that changes will likely be made to the plan to keep it on a sustainable path.
Generative AI has also been a major focus of the consortium. Nolan said THR The DGA was seeking a greater role in shaping the use of AI tools and wanted to regulate how organ work could be transformed through generative AI.
Meanwhile, studios were keen to strike a four-year deal with directors as they had done with writers and actors earlier in the year. From an entertainment company’s perspective, a deal longer than the typical three-year agreements would ensure business stability over that time period and allow for longer-term business planning.
DGA National Executive Director Russell Hollander led the talks on behalf of the association, while AMPTP President Gregory Hessinger led the negotiations for the entertainment companies.
