As signatories prepare to negotiate new deals with IATSE and Teamsters, it might seem like the last thing the town wants to chew on is another group claiming it has gotten the short end of the stick.
The 86 members of Producers United – a grassroots collection of the most prolific “Career Producers” who make about 90% of Hollywood’s biggest independent and studio/streamer films – will test those waters on behalf of all producers who don’t have it as good as most might have believed.
The members of this upstart group, which Deadline is revealing for the first time here, include the producers of Oscar-winning films, and franchises that include James Bond, John Wick, Transformers and many others. They have banded together on behalf of other producers and have made approaches to studios, streamers and financiers on the film and TV sides. Meetings are set over the next few weeks to press the case for reforms that if not addressed, could in the long term could fuel a potential “extinction event.”
