Disney sees higher costs to create content after Hollywood pay raises

Disney sees higher costs to create content after Hollywood pay raises
SAG-AFTRA actors and Writers Guild of America (WGA) writers ongoing strike

(Reuters) – Walt Disney said on Tuesday the new collective bargaining agreements with the Directors Guild of America, WGA and SAG-AFTRA will lead to increased costs to create content.

The media conglomerate expects its fiscal 2024 capital expenditure to total roughly $6 billion and spend on produced and licensed content to be about $25 billion.

(Reporting by Samrhitha Arunasalam in Bengaluru; Editing by Arun Koyyur)

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