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2ND UPDATE, 9 AM: UTA co-president Jay Sures just sent an email confirming the deal with the WGA — and it’s a labor-relations whopper. “After many long discussions and significant work by both sides, we've successfully found middle ground that sets asides our core differences,” Sures stated in the three-page letter…

Another board candidate has dropped out of the WGA West election and thrown his support to incumbent president David A. Goodman and his running mates. Joshua Hale Fialkov is the fourth board candidate to drop out – leaving 17 candidates vying for eight board seats. Fialkov, who was selected to run by the guild's…

The first of three WGA membership meetings this week to discuss the status of the guild's ongoing standoff with Hollywood's talent agencies drew polarizing reaction. Opposition candidates are accusing the guild’s leaders of electioneering at the Wednesday night gathering, a claim denied by WGA West president David Good…

The final list of candidates in the WGA West's upcoming election has been unveiled, giving members a clear choice between supporters and opponents of the guild's current course in its 102-day standoff with Hollywood's talent agencies. New board candidates include high-profile names like Power‘s Courtney Kemp, the…

WGA leaders David Goodman and Chris Keyser have this week explained for Deadline readers the guild’s position driving its quest to eradicate Big 4 agency packaging and affiliated production companies. That doesn’t mean there aren’t working writers who believe that the strong point that has been made should be followed…

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…

There has been some confusion over the roles that attorneys and managers will play in brokering deals for writers who have fired their agents at the behest of the WGA. WGAW president David Goodman just sent a memo to members, trying to shake loose some of the cobwebs of uncertainty. Deadline and other outlets have…

Once Upon a Time is keeping executive producer David H. Goodman in the fold. Goodman has signed a new two-year overall deal with ABC Studios, the studio behind the ABC fairytale drama. Under the pact, he’ll continue as an executive produce on the series while also developing new projects. Securing Goodman, who has…

EXCLUSIVE: Family Guy scribe David Goodman has defeated Jaws screenwriter Carl Gottlieb to become the WGA West's new Vice President. "David Goodman's a good guy, and he's good for the guild," said Gottlieb, the guild's long-serving Secretary-Treasurer who will be succeeded in that post by Aaron Mendelsohn, who ran…