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The Recording Academy announced today that its Grammy Awards will be the first major music award production to commit to the use of the contract addendums known as inclusion riders. In a statement released today, the Academy said that the rider is “designed to be a robust tool to ensure equity and inclusion at every…

EXCLUSIVE: Overbrook Entertainment and Endeavor Content adopted the inclusion rider during the production of Hala, the Sundance coming-of-age film written and directed by Minhal Baig. Founder and director of the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative Dr. Stacy Smith first introduced the policy in 2014 to ensure film and…

It’s the 50th episode of the New Hollywood Podcast, so we decided to celebrate this milestone with a very special guest: the one, the only Michael B. Jordan. The Black Panther star stopped by to talk about his turn as Erik Killmonger who is considered a villain of the Marvel film, but, in all honesty, he does bring up…

On Michael B. Jordan's first trip to Cannes for the Ryan Coogler-directed Fruitvale Station, the young actor walked wide-eyed down the Croisette, smiling when fans shouted, "Where's Wallace?" a signature line about his tragic character from the HBO series The Wire. Jordan is the first to admit that, while growing up…

You could call Ryan Murphy the prolific creator of primetime series, a four-time Emmy winner, or even the $300 Million Man for the megadeal he made to move his allegiance from Fox to Netflix. But if you asked him for the accomplishment that has made him most proud, he'd tell you it was becoming an early proponent of a…

EXCLUSIVE: The British Film Institute has responded to the stinging rebuke from the UK’s opposition party Labour that the film industry only “pays lip service to diversity” and that inclusion riders should be tied to the UK’s lucrative film and TV tax credit. Amanda Nevill, CEO of the UK’s leading organization for…

High-profile film and TV projects may soon be required to feature an inclusion rider in order to secure multimillion-pound tax relief in the UK. The Labour Party, currently the opposition to the British government, has revealed that it is drawing up plans to only make the tax credits available to producers and…

Days after “inclusion rider” was trending in the wake of Frances McDormand’s impassioned Oscars speech, Michael B. Jordan has made a promise. The Black Panther and Creed actor said in an Instagram post today that he will include inclusion riders for all projects made by his production company. “In support of the…

Best Actress Oscar winner Frances McDormand did very little campaigning for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri during awards season, preferring to let the work speak for itself. But she had two powerful words that were heard round the world on Oscar night: “Inclusion Rider.” A reference to a clause that allows…