Writer-producer Jorge Reyes has issued a not-so-veiled threat against his former Gersh agents, claiming they canceled a meeting they'd scheduled for him with a Fox executive before he fired them and moved to the Verve agency last week. "So Gersh found out I was going over to Verve &asked my mgr about it this morning,"…

Just days before the Big 4 agencies were facing a deadline to respond to the Writers Guild of America's anti-packaging lawsuit filed last month, the guild amended its initial filing late Monday with a constructive fraud claim that was quickly repudiated by the Association of Talent Agents. "This is a desperate attempt…

One $300 million legal dust-up between AMC and former The Walking Dead showrunner Frank Darabont and his representatives at CAA is heading to trial next year. But another lawsuit in the profit-participation dispute looks to be barreling towards a Hollywood labor minefield. "The dirty secret in Hollywood is that talent…

Gabrielle Carteris is seeking re-election as president of SAG-AFTRA, a post she's held since 2016. She'll be running at the top the union's majority party, Unite for Strength. Matthew Modine, running at the top of the union's opposition party, Membership First, was the first to announce that he will challenge her for…

Hollywood has done little so far to protest Georgia's new anti-abortion law known as the “heartbeat” bill, which Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law last week. Still, a studio source has confirmed to Deadline Kemp has postponed an upcoming trip to Los Angeles where he was to meet with film and TV executives and tout…

The WGA's ongoing battle with Hollywood's talent agencies isn't technically a strike – guild officials call it a "concerted action" – but it has similarities to past WGA strikes, all of which had to do with new revenue streams that the guild wanted a share of for its members. That was the case in 1960, when writers…

Members of SAG-AFTRA have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new commercials contract. The union said the new three-year pact was approved by a vote of 96.85% but didn't say how many ballots were cast. Postcards were mailed to roughly 136,000 members. Union leaders have called it a "landmark” deal because it establishes…

In the aftermath of the WGA severing ties with the Association of Talent Agents and sending out 7,000 emails from members firing their agents, writers are getting used to a new and potentially uncertain reality. While firmly supporting their guild, many wonder exactly what WGA leadership’s endgame is in the standoff…

"Like how I dodge the whole ATA issue?" UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer joked Wednesday at the Milken Institute Global Conference after the pitched battle between the WGA and the Association of Talent Agents over the lucrative practice of packaging was brought up. Lamenting that he was probably driving his communications staff…

EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Modine has thrown his hat into the ring as a candidate for president of SAG-AFTRA. Modine, a member of the union's local and national boards of directors, is running at the top of the Membership First ticket, the self-styled progressive wing of the union that promises more democracy and transparency…

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…

With writers firing their agents en masse in the ongoing battle between the WGA and the Association of Talent Agents over packaging and agency-affiliated productions, the burden of keeping the wheels of the TV and film business turning has fallen on attorneys and managers. The situation has created a legal dilemma for…