SAG-AFTRA has pulled the franchise of the Jordan McKirahan Talent Agency, meaning it no longer can represent the union's members, effective April 19. A SAG-AFTRA source said the union forced the agency to surrender its franchise "due to a lack of compliance with our requirements."

The Burbank-based agency still is lice…

More than 7,000 WGA members have fired their agents en mass as the guild ramps up its campaign against talent agencies that refuse to sign its new Code of Conduct. The guild said Monday it delivered “a first batch of over 7,000 termination letters from WGA members to the non-franchised agencies,” including those…

The WGA has launched a "Weekly Feature Memo" to help connect writers to producers – the guild's latest move to keep its members working as its battle with the major talent agencies enters its second week.

As part of the new program, the guild will send a list of available specs scripts and pitches to producers and deve…

Good Friday has put Hollywood on pause for tomorrow, but today the Writers Guild said it has a very big Easter delivery for the uberagencies coming on Monday.

It’s been nearly a week after talks completely broke down between the WGA and the Association of Talent Agents over the new anti-packaging Agency Code of…

UPDATED, 5:45 PM: The Writers Guild has issued a statement in response to the ATA’s letter to members. Read it at the bottom of this post.

PREVIOUSLY, 3:22 PM: The Association of Talent Agents said today that it is "evaluating all legal options" to address the WGA's claim that it has the legal right to deputize…

Chuck Parker has been re-elected national executive director of the Art Directors Guild, IATSE Local 800. He and the guild's associate national executive director, who goes by the name dooner, were reelected at the guild's bi-annual general membership meeting last Saturday. They both ran unopposed.

"I am so pleased ADG…

Cathy Repola, national executive director of IATSE Editors Guild Local 700, has told her members that despite what other IATSE local leaders are telling their members, the continuing decline in the funding percentage of IATSE's Pension Plan "is cause for justifiable concern — and something on which we need to continue…

2ND UPDATE, 4:22 PM: In a message to its members regarding today’s lawsuit against the Association of Talent Agencies, the WGA West's board of directors said: "The WGA will continue to use all appropriate methods, including negotiation and litigation, to align agency interests with the interests of writers."

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Screenwriter John August, a member of the WGA's negotiating committee, says he's hopeful that the guild and the talent agencies will resume discussions in the next few weeks to break their impasse over a new franchise agreement. Formal negotiations broke off Friday, after which the guild ordered all of its members to…

The WGA will hold a news conference Wednesday morning to unveil "the next step in its effort to end the conflicted business practices of talent agencies in Hollywood."

The guild has been involved in what it calls a "concerted action" against the agencies since talks broke off with the Association of Talent Agents on…

UPDATED with WGA statement, 4:43 PM: WGA West president David A. Goodman has issued a statement in response to Deadline’s story today about members who fail to inform the guild that they have fired their agents.

"The WGA is a group of writers, not a tribunal. The membership voted overwhelmingly, 95.3% in favor, to leav…

The DGA is telling its hyphenate members that they don't have to fire their agents for DGA-covered work even if they are also writers who are being told by the WGA that they must fire their agents who refuse to sign its new Agency Code of Conduct. At least not for now.

"There are important issues that we are examining…