The WGA declared today that no deal was reached with the Association of Talent Agents on a new franchise agreement, and ATA executive director Karen Stuart and WGA West President David A. Goodman issued separate statements about the impasse.

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EXCLUSIVE: Mobilizing for war with the major talent agencies, the WGA West today called on its members to participate in its "Agency Campaign" to reshape the agenting business. In a message sent to members Tuesday, the guild is seeking volunteers to serve as team captains to act "as a liaison between a team of writers…

There were two big surprises on the film side of the 71st annual Writers Guild Awards, which were handed out tonight during simultaneous ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York. The respective winners of the marquee Original Screenplay and Adapted Screenplay prizes were movies that often have for the most part been…

The 71st annual Writers Guild Awards are being handed out tonight in simultaneous ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York. Deadline will be liveblogging the action here and updating the winners here as they are announced. Click on the link below for the full list of nominees.

Along with the hardware being handed out for…

Christopher Knopf, the former president of the Writers Guild of America West, died on Wednesday at age 91 of congestive heart failure.

The Emmy nominated writer also served as president of the International Writers Guild and national chairman of the WGA. He received 10 Writers Guild nominations, winning three.

Knopf's…

Adam McKay has been set to receive the WGA West's Paul Selvin Award this year for outstanding achievement in writing Vice, his subversive comedy looking at the rise of Dick Cheney. They award will be presented February 17 at the WGA Awards in Los Angeles.

The news comes as Annapurna Pictures’ Vice is up for eight…

Jenji Kohan, creator of Weeds and Orange Is the New Black, will be this year's recipient of the WGA West's Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award, which is given to a guild member who has "advanced the literature of television and made outstanding contributions to the profession of the television writer." She will be honored at…

UPDATED with FilmL.A. saying production at LAUSD schools continue: Teamsters Local 399 is urging its members to honor the striking Los Angeles teachers' picket lines, which could disrupt plans for filming on campuses at local schools, which have long been favorite locations for film and TV shoots. "Honor the picket…

Longtime comedy screenwriting partners Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, known for such hits as Splash, Parenthood, City Slickers and A League of Their Own, will receive this year’s WGA West's Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement. The prize is presented to guild members who have "advanced the literature of motion…

Richard Stayton, editor-in-chief for the last 20 years of Written By, the WGA West's monthly magazine, has resigned to return to his first love – playwriting. Leaving, he says, was a difficult decision.

"No one is pushing me out the door," he writes in the magazine's latest issue. "But I sense that this is the right ti…

Joan Meyerson, an award-winning TV writer-producer and a longtime WGA West board member, will receive the 2019 Morgan Cox Award in recognition of her decades-long service to the guild. She'll be honored at February 17 at the Writers Guild Awards L.A. ceremony.

"I had the pleasure of serving on the board of directors wi…

Two minorities, one woman and three writers age 60 and older are this year's honorees for the WGA West's Feature Writer Access Project, the guild's screenwriting program for women, minority, disabled, older and LGBTQ+ writers.

Now in its sixth year, the program seeks to identify outstanding historically underrepresente…