Directors in Hollywood secure a labor agreement, while writers stay on strike.

The Directors Guild of America has signed a three-year agreement with Hollywood studios, resulting in "unprecedented gains" in pay, streaming residuals, and artificial intelligence.

“We have concluded a truly historic deal,” Jon Avnet, the chair of the D.G.A.’s negotiating committee, said in the statement. “It provides significant improvements for every director, assistant director, unit production manager, associate director and stage manager in our guild.”

The agreement avoids the apocalyptic Hollywood scenario of three big unions striking at the same time. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which talks on behalf of the studios, will begin contract discussions with SAG-AFTRA, the actors' organization, on Wednesday; their current deal expires on June 30. SAG-AFTRA is currently gathering strike authorization votes.

The Writers Guild of America, the writers' organization, has been hinting that an agreement with the directors may be on the way. However, the authors and studios have not restarted discussions, and the W.G.A. negotiating committee has cautioned that in order to end the strike, the corporations must engage with the W.G.A. on their whole agenda.

The Directors Guild of America (D.G.A.) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (W.G.A.) are at odds over pay, streaming residuals, artificial intelligence, and job security. The disagreement has been labeled as "existential" by WGA officials, and the studios are determined to continue destroying the writing profession. The W.G.A. has sworn to continue fighting.

“We are girded by an alliance with our sister guilds and unions,” Chris Keyser, a chair of the W.G.A. bargaining committee, said in a video message to writers last week. “They give us strength. But we are strong enough. We have always been strong enough to get the deal we need using writer power alone.”