After 148 days on strike, Hollywood writers are returning to work. The Writers Guild of America set the end to its work stoppage for midnight tonight, meaning scribes…
Read more Done Deal: Here Is What’s in the New WGA Contract and What It MeansIt took 146 days and multiple marathon negotiating sessions attended by CEOs including Bob Iger and David Zaslav, but the Hollywood writers strike appears poised to end. On…
Read more We Have a Deal! Writers Strike Poised to End as WGA and Studios Reach a Tentative AgreementAfter defending her daytime talk show’s return amid the ongoing writers strike on Sunday, Drew Barrymore put a face to her show’s decision in a video apology posted…
Read more Drew Barrymore Apologizes to Writers, but Will Resume Her Show AnywayBill Maher is going “off-the-cuff” when his late-night series Real Time with Bill Maher returns to HBO amid the ongoing writers’ strike, the host announced on Wednesday via…
Read more Bill Maher Becomes First Host to Make Late-Night Return Without WritersThe joint Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes have bred economic instability for several facets of the industry—from movie theaters bracing for an uncertain release schedule to…
Read more Strikes Saved Warner Bros. Discovery “More Than $100 Million,” Says CEO David ZaslavIt took 92 days, but the stalemate between the Writers Guild of America and Hollywood’s biggest studios and streamers has come to an end. On Tuesday, Carol Lombardini,…
Read more Is This The Beginning of The End of The Writers Strike?Recently, former Paramount head Barry Diller suggested that movie moguls—and Hollywood’s highest paid actors—take 25% pay cuts. The goodwill gesture, by Diller’s reasoning, just might help bridge the…
Read more Hollywood Actors and Writers vs. the Studios: 1933 vs. 2023Since early May, writers have been picketing outside Netflix’s Hollywood offices as they fight for updates to their contracts with the entertainment industry’s biggest, and richest, companies. They’ve…
Read more Hollywood Strikes Can’t Keep Netflix DownThe world of Black Mirror might feel like a dystopian alternate reality. But Hollywood, it turns out, is a lot closer to becoming an episode of the Netflix…
Read more SAG-AFTRA Strike: Studios’ AI Proposal Sounds Like Black Mirror, Right?The Writers Guild of America, which has been on strike since early May, is apparently in damage-control mode. According to a new report in The Hollywood Reporter, one…
Read more Ryan Murphy Really, Really Did Not Like That TweetHollywood has at least another week and a half to live. SAG-AFTRA, the union that represents some 160,000 actors and performers, and the Alliance of Motion Picture and…
Read more Apocalypse Postponed: Actors and Studios Extend Contract NegotiationsIf you had to pick one reliable highlight from the upfronts each spring, when America’s content conglomerates woo Madison Avenue with the best and brightest from their upcoming…
Read more The Writers Strike Is Blowing Up the UpfrontsIt’s the perfect premise for a rom-com. Two TV writers looking for love find it in the most unlikely place: on a picket line, striking with their union. That’s…
Read more How a Writers Strike Gave Birth to a Real-Life Romance
