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Remaining West Coast IATSE Locals Reach Craft-Specific Tentative Agreements With Studios

hollywoodreporter.com All West Coast IATSE Locals have now reached tentative agreements with studios and streamers on their craft-specific issues. The remaining two Locals of the crew union that…

IATSE Contract Talks Shift to Toughest Issues: Wages, AI and Residuals

variety.com IATSE negotiators are bracing for the next phase of contract negotiations with Hollywood’s major studios and streamers after the conclusion this week of talks with all 13…

Zendaya on the Trick Behind Her ‘Challengers’ Tennis Moves and Taking Charge of Her Career: ‘There’s No Lip Service When You Have the Producer Title’

variety.com “I’m watching tennis as we speak — Djokovic,” Zendaya tells me during one of her first interviews about “Challengers.” It’s July 11, 2023. The 27-year-old actor is watching…

Producers United Is Launched By 86 Top Film & TV “Career Producers” To Change Fee Structure, Get Health Benefits & Stop Gradual Ecosystem Erosion

deadline.com 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…

Starbucks, Workers United made 'significant progress' in this week's contract talks

cnbc.com A Starbucks worker boards the Starbucks union bus after Starbucks workers stood on the picket line with striking SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild of America (WGA) members in…

Studio Teachers Reach Tentative Deal With AMPTP On Craft-Specific Issues; Local 44 Seeks To Finalize Bargaining

deadline.com have struck a tentative deal with the studios. Local 884 came to a preliminary agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on craft-specific…

Chris Meloni's Law & Order: Organized Crime Will Return For Season 5

looper.com Learn More Chris Meloni's Law & Order: Organized Crime Will Return For Season 5 - With A Big Catch "Law & Order: Organized Crime" seems to be on the verge of a Season 5…

Actors Access, a Top Casting Site, Hit With Class Action Lawsuit

variety.com Actors Access, the leading online platform for film and TV casting, was hit with a class action lawsuit on Wednesday, alleging that it illegally charges performers for…

A Ban on Noncompetes Could Raise Pay — And Complicate Contracts

hollywoodreporter.com Employers have been banned from adopting or enforcing clauses restricting workers’ ability to move to competitors, marking a pivotal change to the employment landscape that…

UK’s Pact & Equity Urge Gov’t Intervention On AI

deadline.com The UK’s producer trade body and actors union have called on the government to rejoin the AI debate and consider legislation before it is too late. AI is set to play a…

‘Blair Witch’ Original Cast Call for Residuals, Creative Input From Lionsgate

thewrap.com The three stars of “The Blair Witch Project” have released a statement calling on Lionsgate to pay them retroactive residuals and allow them to provide creative input on the…

‘The Blair Witch Project’ Original Cast Members Request Retroactive Payment

vanityfair.com Does the world need another take on The Blair Witch Project? The groundbreaking 1999 movie, which starred Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard, and Rai Hance (then known as…

Original ‘Blair Witch’ Cast Asks Lionsgate for Retroactive Residuals and Consultation on Future Projects

hollywoodreporter.com The stars of The Blair Witch Project have come together with a public proposal to Lionsgate after the studio recently announced a partnership with Blumhouse for a reboot of…

‘The Blair Witch Project’ Stars Share Public Proposal To Lionsgate Asking For Retroactive Residuals & Consultation On Future Projects

deadline.com The stars of The Blair Witch Project are banding together and sharing a public proposal to Lionsgate after the studio partnered with Blumhouse for a reboot. Heather Donahue,…

‘The Blair Witch Project’ Cast Ask Lionsgate For Retroactive Residuals and ‘Meaningful Consultation’ on Future Projects

variety.com Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, and Michael Williams, the stars of the seminal horror film “The Blair Witch Project,” released a public letter to Lionsgate on Saturday…

Netflix Acquires ‘Calabasas’ TV Series Produced by Kim Kardashian and Emma Roberts’ Series ‘Calabasas’

thewrap.com Netflix has landed the television series “Calabasas,” TheWrap has learned. The series, which is executive produced by Kim Kardashian and her “American Horror Story” costar…

Gov. Phil Murphy Visits Hollywood to Tubthump New Jersey Production Tax Credits: ‘Our Incentives Are as Competitive as Any in the World’

variety.com Gov. Phil Murphy has made TV and film a top priority for New Jersey ever since he took the helm of the Garden State in 2018. This week, Murphy made a West Coast swing to…

Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson & More Nominated for 2024 Daytime Emmys

billboard.com The nominations for the 2024 Daytime Emmys were announced on Friday (April 19). The Kelly Clarkson Show is out to defend its title as outstanding daytime talk series against…

Dick Wolf Honors Ziffren Brittenham’s Cliff Gilbert-Lurie at ’s Power of Law Breakfast

variety.com Variety‘s annual Power of Law breakfast, presented by City National Bank, featured speakers discussing the radical changes that have rocked the entertainment industry in…

Songwriters are getting screwed over by your favorite artists

thestreet.com The hidden faces behind the biggest hits in music are struggling to survive in a dying profession. The business of songwriting has become significantly less lucrative as…

KMR Talent Clients Speak Out About Money Owed: “I’m Not Holding My Breath”

deadline.com SAG-AFTRA is expected on April 25 to meet with former and current clients of KMR Talent who haven’t received compensation for work they already completed. The union is…

‘She-Hulk’ Star Tatiana Maslany Was ‘So Heated Up’ When She Called Disney CEO Bob Iger ‘Out of Touch’ During the Strike: ‘It’s Hard to Articulate Yourself’ on…

variety.com “She-Hulk” star Tatiana Maslany went viral during the SAG-AFTRA strike last year when she called out Disney CEO Bob Iger for being “completely out of touch” due to his…

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav’s 2023 Compensation Rises 26.5% to Nearly $50 Million

variety.com Warner Bros. Discovery has been in cost-cutting mode — except when it comes to paying top execs. David Zaslav, president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, had a 2023 pay…

Why Hollywood jobs are moving away from New York City and LA

marketplace.org Something has happened to the film and television industry over the last two years: Many of the jobs it creates have moved from its traditional centers in Los Angeles and…

L.A. Production Rebounds After Strike, But Still Well Below Peak Levels

variety.com Los Angeles film and TV production has begun to rebound from last year’s strikes, but still remains well below pre-strike levels, according to data released Thursday by…

Stephen Colbert Tells Trump to Keep Jimmy Kimmel’s Name ‘Out of Your Weird, Little, Wet Mouth’

thewrap.com Don’t mess with the “Strike Force Five” brotherhood. Stephen Colbert used his Wednesday night monologue to defend late night host Jimmy Kimmel following Donald Trump’s…

Quentin Tarantino Drops ‘The Movie Critic’ As His Final Film

deadline.com Quentin Tarantino’s movies are always full of surprises, and here is one about The Movie Critic we did not expect. Deadline can reveal that Tarantino has dropped the film as…

As AI-Created Photorealistic Images Proliferate, Documentary Producers Draw Up Guidelines

hollywoodreporter.com In a demonstration of OpenAI's video tool Sora, this still was created from the prompt, "The camera directly faces colorful buildings in Burano, Italy. An adorable dalmatian…

‘Abigail’ Filmmakers Radio Silence on Their Genre-Hopping Vampire Thriller and Honoring Angus Cloud’s Final Performance

variety.com The Universal horror movie “Abigail” began as a modern-day twist on “Dracula’s Daughter,” but making a film about the legendary vampire’s blood-sucking scion wasn’t the…

‘No one wants to see a picket line on Sesame Street’ but that’s exactly what’s happening as writers unanimously vote for strike

aol.com Having a sunny day and sweeping the clouds away can be an increasingly difficult task without a signed contract. And behind Sesame Street’s eight-foot big bird, vampire who…

Actors Sue Commercial Casting Site Over ‘Pay for Play’ Policy

variety.com A group of actors filed a class action lawsuit Tuesday against Casting Networks, one of a handful of websites that connects actors to commercial auditions, alleging that the…

Screen Actors Guild Awards Set 2025 Date

hollywoodreporter.com The Screen Actors Guild Awards has set the date for its 2025 edition. The awards show will stream live on Netflix on Feb. 23, 2025. Additionally, key dates and deadlines…

Casting Networks Targeted In Class Action Lawsuit Over Its “Bait & Switch Subscription-Based Service”

deadline.com Four months after SAG-AFTRA warned casting websites that it was illegal to collect fees from actors who want to submit themselves for commercial casting, a California-based…

Actors, Record Labels Ink Deal Limiting AI Voice Use

decrypt.co Voting started today on a deal negotiated between the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and members of the recording…

IATSE Has “Cautious Optimism” About General Negotiations With Studios As Union Aims To Finalize Craft-Specific Issues This Week

deadline.com IATSE is looking to wrap up local-specific negotiations with the studios this week before the guild turns its attention to general contract talks. There are just three…

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