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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…

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…

How The CW’s ‘Sight Unseen’ Built a Production For and Driven By Blind and Low Vision Creatives

hollywoodreporter.com When Orphan Black co-creator John Fawcett read Kat and Niko Troubetzkoy’s new The CW show Sight Unseen, his response gave the half-sisters, who were producers on his own…

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…

New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week

variety.com It’s not always easy to find out which movies are hitting theaters each week, especially after the Hollywood strikes led to many release date changes. With the WGA and…

John Logan To Adapt Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Blood Meridian’ For New Regency

deadline.com Three-time Oscar nominated scribe John Logan is adapting Pulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian novel for the big screen for New Regency. John…

Meg Bennett, Soap Opera Actress and Writer, Dies at 75

hollywoodreporter.com Meg Bennett, the Daytime Emmy winner who did double duty as an actress and writer on the daytime soap operas The Young and the Restless, General Hospital and Santa Barbara,…

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…

‘Sesame Street’ writers set new contract, avert strike

nbcnews.com Writers at Sesame Workshop reached a five-year agreement with the production company behind “Sesame Street,” averting the possibility of picket lines popping up in the…

The Life and Death of Hollywood, by Daniel Bessner

harpers.org In 2012, at the age of thirty-two, the writer Alena Smith went West to Hollywood, like many before her. She arrived to a small apartment in Silver Lake, one block from the…

'Sesame Street' writers reach tentative contract deal, averting strike

latimes.com Ernie, left, and Ji-Young on the set of “Sesame Street.” Writers Guild of America members employed by Sesame Workshop have struck a tentative contract deal with management,…

Sesame Workshop Averts Strike: Tentative Deal Struck With Writers

hollywoodreporter.com The Sesame Workshop has averted a picket line outside its New York headquarters, as a new contract deal with its unionized writers was reached on Friday afternoon. Sesame…

Olivia Charmaine Bernardez’s Black Monarch Entertainment Is Embracing Art and Activism With Netflix Deal

thewrap.com Olivia Charmaine Bernardez doesn’t have your typical media career. A little over 10 years after she graduated from the Tisch School of Arts at NYU, Bernardez has worked…

Jane Nefeldt Dies: Former WGA West Senior Executive & Negotiator Was 71

deadline.com Jane Nefeldt, a longtime WGA West Senior Executive who was involved in six contract negotiations, has died. She was 71. The guild said she died April 16 in Hermosa Beach,…

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…

‘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…

Roy Wood Jr. says he made some apologies after his accidentally viral plea for 'The Daily Show' to find a host

aol.com None Roy Wood Jr. went viral at the Emmys for mouthing "please find a host" when "The Daily Show" won. • None Wood said the remark came from a place of pride for the crew,…

Writers Guild Of Canada Calls For Strike-Authorization Vote Against Canadian Media Producers

deadline.com The Writers Guild of Canada has called for a strike-authorization vote amid ongoing negotiations on its Independent Production Agreement with the Canadian Media Producers…

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…

'Sesame Street' writers authorize a strike if they don't reach a contract by Friday

npr.org 'Sesame Street' writers authorize a strike if they don't reach a contract by Friday Writers for Sesame Street have voted unanimously to authorize a strike if they are unable…

‘Ridiculousness’ Writers Achieve First Union Contract Under WGAW

thewrap.com “Ridiculousness” writers have officially achieved their first contract after the team unanimously voted to unionize under the Writers Guild of America West. “We’re all…

‘Ridiculousness’ Writers Achieve First Contract After Unionizing Under WGAW

deadline.com The writers of MTV’s Ridiculousness have officially bargained their first contract. After the writers voted to organize under the Writers Guild of America West last year,…

‘Ridiculousness’ Writers Reach First Union Contract

hollywoodreporter.com About nine months months after the writers on MTV’s viral comedy clips show Ridiculousness launched their attempt to unionize, the group has reached a first labor contract…

Hollywood’s AI Concerns Present New and Complex Challenges for Legal Eagles to Untangle

variety.com Technology has been disrupting Hollywood even longer than the L.A. district now synonymous with the entertainment business has existed. From Thomas Edison’s 1877 invention…

‘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…

Unbalanced labor market power is what makes technology—including AI

epi.org Many of the concerns raised recently about advances in artificial intelligence (AI)—for example, its implications for national security or media disinformation—are outside…

Sesame Workshop Writers Authorize Potential Strike

hollywoodreporter.com Thirty-five workers at the nonprofit organization that produces Sesame Street have greenlit a potential work stoppage to begin on April 24 if a new contract deal isn't…

Sesame Workshop Writers Authorize Strike Ahead of Friday’s Contract Deadline

thewrap.com Sesame Workshop writers unanimously voted to authorize the Writers Guild of America to order a strike if the children’s television production company does not reach a deal…

‘Sesame Street’ Writers Approve WGA East Strike Authorization Vote as Contract Expiration Looms

variety.com Writers employed by “Sesame Street” producer Sesame Workshop have voted unanimously to support a strike authorization vote from the Writers Guild of America East as the…

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…

SAG-AFTRA, record labels reach deal over AI protections for artists

thehill.com SAG-AFTRA, a union representing thousands of actors and other media professionals, reached a tentative deal with leading record labels that includes protections for artists…

After the Oscars, A Looser, Livelier Writers Guild Awards Emerge

vanityfair.com “Uh, the Succession table?” series creator Jesse Armstrong replied when asked to provide his seating number at Sunday night’s Writers Guild Awards. Unsurprisingly, the…

‘Trash Talk:’ Gary Payton Docuseries Moves Into Production With MindRiot Entertainment, ‘Expendables 4’ Filmmaker Scott Waugh Set As Director

deadline.com MindRiot Entertainment, the transatlantic indie behind Danielle Deadwyler’s Parallel, and the upcoming OceanGate pic Salvaged is moving into production on Trash Talk, a…

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