Requests for assistance from the Actors Fund have soared during the industry's coronavirus shutdown, and the WGA West has answered the call.
"While the Actors Fund typically processes an average of 60 grants per week, in the last two weeks it has scaled up and is providing 150 grants per day," leaders of the WGA West…
The WGA West is suspending non-essential meetings and events and is cancelling all screenings at the Writers Guild Theater until further notice to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
"As the situation concerning the global spread of COVID-19 continues to evolve, guild leadership has decided to take a preemptive…
David N. Weiss, a past WGA West VP and writer of Shrek 2 and The Smurfs and Rugrats movie and TV franchises, has been chosen to receive the WGA West's 2019 Animation Writers Caucus Animation Writing Award. The honor will be bestowed tonight at the annual AWC awards ceremony and member meeting at the guild's Los…
Craig Mazin had some words of advice for newly re-elected WGA President David A. Goodman backstage following his Emmy win tonight.
“The advice I would give to him is the advice I would always give to him is to listen to all the members, do the best you can and see if you can patch this whole thing up. We’ll see how it…
Hollywood's unions are assuring members that their loan-out companies will not be negatively impacted by a new California law designed to end the misclassification of gig economy workers as so-called "independent contractors.”
The bill – AB 5 – which was signed Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, was designed to protect…
Writers and others are reacting to WGA West president David A. Goodman landslide re-election win tonight. The incumbent brushed off challenger Phyllis Nagy after an often bitter campaign amid the guild’s ongoing standoff with the Association of Talent Agents. Read some of the reaction below.
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Phyllis Nagy, who ran as the opposition candidate in the WGA West election against incumbent David A Goodman, on Monday congratulated her opponent after their sometimes bitter campaign that served as a referendum of the guild’s five-month-long agency campaign.
Goodman received 4,395 votes (77.3%) to Nagy's 1,292…
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…
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…
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…
