SAG-AFTRA, IATSE the WGA, and even the DGA have united behind a legislative move to put up some new and slightly punitive guardrails around Artificial Intelligence. “Everything generated…
Read more Hollywood Guilds Come Out Strong For “Ethical & Transparent” AI Bill From Adam SchiffSpeaking with the Los Angeles Times, Alex O’Keefe, who wrote on season one of The Bear, said, “The WGA doesn’t have a standing army and the concern of…
Read more “A Reckoning Is Brewing”: The WGA Is Divided Over Statements on IsraelLeaders of Hollywood’s writers union declared their nearly five-month-old strike over Tuesday after board members approved a contract agreement with studios. The governing boards of the eastern and…
Read more Hollywood writers strike declared over after union boards approve studio deal – National | Globalnews.caIt 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 AgreementIn 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 SummerHollywood hopes are on the rise this weekend after the Writers Guild of America received a new package of proposals from the studio side on Friday, an offer…
Read more Writers Guild Keeps Mum As Studio Negotiations ResumeA 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 MeetingIt 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?America’s biggest media conglomerates already had plenty to contend with heading into their next earnings roadshow: the tough ad market, the tricky metrics of streaming, the slow and…
Read more Hollywood Strikes Magnify Media Tumult: “It Is Existential That We Get This Resolved”It’s a classic holiday film tale: small towns, snowflakes and star-crossed lovers. But this year’s queue of beloved holiday movies may be considerably smaller due to the worldwide…
Read more Filming Christmas in July? How Hollywood strikes hit holiday movie-making here – National | Globalnews.caSince 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 strain of Hollywood’s actors’ and writers’ strikes is being felt in productions all around the world, and film industry insiders say Canada is far from exempt. Due…
Read more Why the Hollywood strike is already ‘a big deal’ for Canada’s film industry – National | Globalnews.caThe 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 NegotiationsFifty days into a strike with no end in sight, about 1,000 Hollywood writers and their supporters marched and rallied in Los Angeles for a new contract with studios that…
Read more Hollywood writers strike hits 50 days with no end in sight as WGA seeks deal – National | Globalnews.ca
