Oscar-winning screenwriter Tom Schulman is urging writers to remain united in the WGA's five-month-long agency campaign or risk losing the guild's bargaining power in next year's negotiations for a new film and TV contract. To prevail on both fronts, he said Wednesday in an email blast to the guild's members, they…
SAG-AFTRA has begun talks with intimacy coordinators to develop protocols covering on-set nudity and simulated sex scenes.
Earlier today, the union's Sexual Harassment Work Group hosted many of the industry's top intimacy coordinators to help work out those guidelines.
"Engaging directly with our member leaders and…
WME has filed a motion to dismiss the WGA's counterclaims in a federal antitrust lawsuit in which the guild is asking the court to declare that agency packaging fees are illegal.
The WGA East and West and several writers sued the Big 4 talent agencies in April, but last month the WGA withdrew its claims and refiled the…
The WGA is reaching out to personal managers to connect them with writers who are looking for new representation. The move comes nearly five months after the guild ordered all of its members to fire their agents who refuse to sign its new Agency Code of Conduct.
The guild is asking managers to fill out a questionnaire…
SAG-AFTRA has filed a brief with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Ashley Judd's lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein. Judd sued Weinstein for sexual harassment and defamation in April 2018, but in January, U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez in January dismissed her sexual harassment claim against the…
With one week to go before WGA West ballots are counted, Oscar-winning screenwriter Callie Khouri is urging writers to re-elect the guild's current leadership and “stand together” to win the WGA's five-month battle with Hollywood's talent agencies.
Khouri, who won the Oscar for Thelma & Louise, said in an email blast…
SAG-AFTRA national executive director David White has condemned a social media post that he described as a "threat" against Gabrielle Carteris, the union's recently re-elected president.
"It has come to our attention that elected leaders have been threatened," he said in an email to the guild's board of directors…
Candidates for the WGA West's board of directors are almost evenly divided between those who want to stay the course and those who want a course correction in the guild's ongoing fight with Hollywood's talent agencies. All 17 candidates vying for eight open seats on the board make reasoned, and often elegant…
Michael Tolkin, the Emmy-nominated creator of Showtime's Escape at Dannemora, is urging WGA members to stop vilifying agents and to start the reconciliation that will be needed to resolve the ongoing feud with the Association of Talent Agents in advance of the upcoming negotiations for a new film and TV…
Marjorie David, vice president of the WGA West, says the guild is "operating in good faith" to resolve the ongoing feud with Hollywood's talent agencies, and believes it will be in good shape going into next year's negotiations with the studios for a new film and TV contract as long as members stay united.
"Our…
Marc Guggenheim, opposition candidate for the WGA West board of directors, has floated a proposed solution to the guild's 20-week standoff with Hollywood's talent agencies: Writers and agents would share packaging fees 50-50 after the agents are "made whole" from the 10% commissions they give up in packaged deals…
Several protests have been filed challenging the validity of SAG-AFTRA's recent presidential election, in which incumbent Gabrielle Carteris handily defeated opponents including runners-up Matthew Modine and Jane Austin.
One of the challenges, filed Tuesday by Brian Hamilton, a founder of Membership First, claims that…
