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AMPTP Names Greg Hessinger As Carol Lombardini’s Successor; Lawyer & Ex-SAG CEO Faces Guild Contract Talks Next Year
Hollywood is about to have a new labor sheriff in town. Greg Hessinger will replace Carol Lombardini as president of AMPTP ahead of next year's contract talks.
Leading the studios and streamers’ side in the successful contract talks with the Animation Guild late last year, Cahill — like Hessinger — is a partner at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP. The selection of Hessinger, who has been in private practice for a decade, to run the AMPTP follows the deep relationship MSK has with the organization and as a top go-to-firm for C-suites and A-listers when it comes to labor issues. Hessinger’s first bargaining cycle leading the AMPTP will be a big one, since it will be the first set of talks following 2023’s historically long dual strikes that upended the film and television industry for nearly five months and have had lasting impacts on production levels, which already were on the decline before the WGA and SAG-AFTRA hit the picket lines.
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