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As the WGA prepares for its upcoming negotiations for a new film and TV contract, guild leaders are telling their members to beware of "misleading and provocative information" that "may appear in the press or social media." "What kinds of tactics might we expect from the companies?" the guild asks in a series of…

SAG-AFTRA will be taking its three-year-long labor dispute with the Spanish Broadcasting System to the streets next week. The union says its members will rally at noon Thursday outside the Los Angeles offices of SBS radio stations Mega and La Raza to pressure the company into negotiating its first contract with the…

UPDATED with WGA statement: The WGA and the Big 3 talent agencies have agreed to try to resolve their ongoing legal dispute through mediation – a standard procedure ordered by the presiding judge that doesn't signify a breakthrough in the case, in which each side is accusing the other of antitrust violations over…

WGA president David A. Goodman told members Friday that the guild has had "substantive discussion with all but one" of the five biggest talent agencies about making deals that could end the guild's 10-month battle over packaging fees, adding that "those we have spoken to have said directly to me they would like to…

Lewis Rothenberg has resigned as president of the Cinematographers Guild, IATSE Local 600, citing “differences” with the union’s senior staff and national officers. He was elected to the post last May, defeating longtime incumbent Steven Poster. In a message Friday to the local's members and staff, Rothenberg said…

The Visual Effects Society is hissing back at the Academy Awards, a day after Cats-costumed presenters James Corden and Rebel Wilson made an impurrtinent remark about the film’s widely panned VFX. Before reading the nominees for Best Visual Effects, the duo said (trading lines), “As castmembers of the motion picture Ca…

The publicity campaigns that drove Warner Bros’ Joker and Disney+’s The Mandalorian took top honors Friday at the 57th annual ICG Publicists Awards at the Beverly Hilton. Joker, which is up for a leading 11 Oscars on Sunday, won the Maxwell Weinberg Award for Motion Pictures Publicity Campaign. Season 1 of Disney+’s St…

WGA members have voted overwhelmingly to approve a pattern of demands for the guild's upcoming negotiations with management’s AMPTP for a new film and TV contract. The vote was 3,028 (91%) who voted yes and 308 (9%) who voted no. By comparison, in 2017, 1,626 members voted: 1,557 voted yes (96%) and 69 (4%) voted…

The Directors Guild and management's AMPTP will begin negotiations for a new film and TV contract on Feb. 10, making the DGA the first guild – as it has been in the last two bargaining cycles – to sit down with the companies, and thus setting the pattern of bargaining in which the AMPTP will expect the WGA and…

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Avengers: Endgame and Parasite were the big film winners at the Art Directors Guild’s 24th annual ADG Awards tonight, taking the Period, Fantasy and Contemporary trophies, respectively, Toy Story 4 picked up the Animated Film prize during the ceremony at the InterContinental Los Angeles…

The WGA Awards boosted a pair of movie screenplays into Oscar frontrunner status on Saturday night, handing its marquee Original Screenplay award to Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won for Neon’s Parasite, and its Adapted Screenplay award to Taika Wiatiti for Searchlight’s Jojo Rabbit. Both of the winning scripts are…

The Writers Guild’s 2020 WGA Awards became the final major guild to weigh in this awards season Saturday with its concurrent ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York. The screenplays for Parasite and Jojo Rabbit won the top film honors at the ceremony, cementing their status as ones to beat at the Oscars next…