
Wicked Part 1 hits theaters on November 27, 2024.Īgain, if the studios have the goods, and are ready to go, they’re rolling cameras. Chu’s feature take of the Broadway smash Wicked, which will be released by Universal in two parts, is close to finish in London the studio dropped the pic’s first footage at CinemaCon.

It is also scheduled to wrap around mid-June.Īlso currently in production is Disney/Marvel Studios’ Captain America: New World Order, which is expected to tee off next summer on May 3, 2024. SAG-AFTRA sent out a memo at the end of April instructing members: “If you are contracted to work on a project that continues production while the WGA is on strike, you are legally obligated to continue working by your personal services agreement and the ‘no strike’ clause in our collective bargaining agreements.” The DGA also issued a no-strike clause to its members.īad Boys 4, which does not have a release date yet, will continue shooting uninterrupted per the SAG-AFTRA and DGA collective bargaining agreements. RELATED: Deadline’s Full WGA Strike Coverageīoth the directors and actors unions will be required to work until June 30, when both the DGA and SAG-AFTRA contracts expire. Come Memorial Day weekend, if there’s still a WGA strike, we’re told studios will do another assessment of their planned June production starts. The priority in case of a shutdown: Getting big action scenes out of the way first. Furthermore, studios have either locked scripts for productions, or have gotten sign-off on not having a scribe on set.

Studios have figured out workarounds: a handful of tentpole productions are shooting overseas where there isn’t a heavy Teamsters presence, and the possibility of a shoot closing is less likely.


The contracts for the DGA and SAG-AFTRA do not expire until June 30, and some movie productions are scheduled to start up before then.
