When Poor Things received an eight-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival in September, only Yorgos Lanthimos was there to bask in it. The director’s cast, of…
Read more Was This Strike-Struck Awards Season Hollywood’s Weirdest Ever?America Ferrera hasn’t yet come face-to-face with any of the women who have memorized her stirring Barbie speech about the complexity of modern femininity—but she expects that such…
Read more Jane Fonda Honors America Ferrera—And Does the ‘Barbie’ Speech“We all cried,” says Fran Drescher, recalling the moment that SAG-AFTRA reached a tentative agreement to end the actors strike on Wednesday night. “It was such a relief…
Read more Hail to the Chief: Fran Drescher Takes Her Post-Strike Victory LapFollowing more than 100 days of picketing, and over a month after the end of the writers’ strike, SAG-AFTRA announced on Wednesday that it has reached a deal…
Read more “Let’s Get Back to Work”: Zac Efron, Quinta Brunson and More Celebrate the End of the Actors’ StrikeAfter 118 days on the picket lines, the guild that represents actors says it has reached a tentative agreement for a new contract, signaling the end of the…
Read more The Actors Strike Is Over, Ending Hollywood’s Long LimboOn November 1, when optimism in Hollywood still ran high that the studios and the Actors Guild might finally come to an agreement, The Ankler’s “Strikegeist” newsletter ran…
Read more The AI Issue in the SAG-AFTRA Strike May Have Finally Been ResolvedThe negotiating committee for the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) is reportedly meeting today, for a conversation that could have far-reaching…
Read more Actors’ Union Mulls’ Last, Best And Final Offer’ As Strike Now In 114th DaySince July 14, Hollywood’s striking actors have stood in solidarity as its union pushed through contract negotiations with major studios and streamers. A crack in that unity appeared…
Read more Ryan Reynolds, Mandy Moore Call Out SAG-AFTRA For Halloween Costume BanAfter 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 MeansAfter 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 AnywayIn addition to solving its scheduling woes, The Golden Bachelor may be just the refresh the creatively flailing franchise needs. The new series follows the departure of longtime…
Read more ‘The Golden Bachelor’: Everything We Know About ABC’s “Strike-Proof” Spin-OffAs negotiations sour between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMTPT) and the historic double strike for writers and actors…
Read more Extreme Heat Halts WGA, SAG-AFTRA Pickets In Some LA LocationsIn the largest screening room on the MGM lot in 1933, Louis B. Mayer completed his transformation into a Marvel-worthy villain. As the Great Depression raged, he solemnly…
Read more “Long-Term Damage”? Bob Iger, Ted Sarandos, and David Zaslav’s Bad-PR SummerA well-respected awards columnist at The Hollywood Reporter is causing a stir in Hollywood media over an email he sent to studios and strategists last week, requesting priority…
Read more Hollywood Media Is Abuzz With a Star Columnist’s Request for Priority AccessWe’re a little more than three weeks into the actors’ strike, a landmark action taken by the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists…
Read more Jamie Lee Curtis Digs Herself Out Of Comments About SAG-AFTRA StrikeA hotly anticipated meeting Friday between the Writers Guild of America and negotiators for Hollywood’s biggest studios ended not with a bang but with a whimper, it appears,…
Read more No End in Sight for Writers Strike Following Friday MeetingIf you’re in Los Angeles, you have seen the ads, heard about the FYC events—driven at this point entirely by below-the-line nominees—starting to get off the ground. Actors’…
Read more The Terror and Promise of a Very Weird, Very Long Emmy SeasonThe ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike in which actors lobby for a fair contract with the studios has halted nearly all productions and, per the rules of the strike, prevented…
Read more ‘Fantastic Four’ Casting Rumors Are Keeping Restless Film Fans EngagedZachary Levi, the Shazam! star who is no stranger to a controversial remark, has apparently awkwardly questioned the parameters of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike. On Thursday, a video…
Read more Zachary Levi Awkwardly Calls Rules of Actors Strike “So Dumb”The Toronto International Film Festival has announced its first round of Tribute Award winners, with Oscar-winning filmmakers Spike Lee and Pedro Almodóvar confirmed to be fêted up in…
Read more Spike Lee and Pedro Almodóvar to Be Honored at a Topsy-Turvy TIFF
