FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 17, 2008

WGA STATEMENT ON DGA TENTATIVE AGREEMENT WITH AMPTP

LOS ANGELES – The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) and the Writers of America, West (WGAW) have issued the following statement:

Now that the DGA has reached a tentative agreement with the AMPTP, the terms of the deal will be carefully analyzed and evaluated by the WGA, the WGA's Negotiating Committee, the WGAE Council and the WGAW Board of Directors. We will work with the full membership of both Guilds to discuss our strategies for our own negotiations and contract goals and how they may be affected by such a deal.

For over a month, we have been urging the conglomerates to return to the table and bargain in good faith. They have chosen to negotiate with the DGA instead. Now that those negotiations are completed, the AMPTP must return to the process of bargaining with the WGA. We hope that the DGA's tentative agreement will be a step forward in our effort to negotiate an agreement that is in the best interests of all writers.