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…

Nearly a month ago, I hear, two prominent showrunners with concerns about the course of the WGA's negotiations with the Association of Talent Agents and the divisive rhetoric on part of the guild shared their misgivings with several colleagues who had similar concerns. The duo then reached out to the WGA leadership…

EXCLUSIVE: Flying in the face of WGA leadership’s expectations that agencies might lay off dealmakers who’ll form rival boutiques to rep writers exiting percenteries that refuse to sign the WGA’s Code Of Conduct, CAA president Richard Lovett addressed the entire agency this morning and made assurances.

He said no one’s…

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…

Talent agencies that signed the WGA's new Code of Conduct aren't being flooded with calls from writers seeking new representation now that they've been ordered by the guild to fire their agents who refused to sign. Deadline reached out to many of the 48 agencies that signed the Code and asked if they've been getting…

The effects of the WGA and ATA breakup are being felt beyond Hollywood.

Speculation has been growing in UK industry circles about how local agencies might be affected by the mass firing of agents by WGA members in the U.S.

On Friday, WGA West president David A. Goodman wrote to UK WGA members reminding them that their…

On Day Two of the battle between the WGA and Hollywood's talent agencies, the Association of Talent Agencies said today that "our resolve has never been stronger," and that "we'll keep fighting as a united front…against the WGA leadership's threat to our agency business operations."

In a message to her members, ATA…

Refresh for more updates. After the WGA and ATA failed to reach an agreement, writers and showrunners started posting their letters terminating their working relationship with their agents. Damon Lindelof and Hart Hanson are the latest to post their letters joining a mass of other top industry names including Steven…