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The looming writers strike in the U.S. could be an "interesting opportunity" for producers working outside the country in an era of globalized content, CAA's head of Global TV Ted Miller told a panel at the MIA Market in Rome on Thursday. "I think there’s likely going to be a writers strike," he…

The WGA Awards is having its 75th anniversary, and the Writers Guild of America has released the timeline for its 2023 trophy show. The gala is set for Sunday, March 5, but no format or venue was revealed. The film nominees — for Original, Adapted and Documentary Screenplay — will be announced Wednesday, January 25…

The Writers Guild of America has penciled in the film nominees for its 74th annual WGA Awards, which will be virtual again this year. The Original Screenplay category will see the scribes behind Being the Ricardos, Don’t Look Up, The French Dispatch, King Richard and Licorice Pizza vying for the hardware. The Adapted…

EXCLUSIVE: Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) is looking to boost visibility and champion Middle Easter voices with the newly formed Middle Eastern Writers Committee (MEWC). The new committee will help bolster Middle Eastern writers within the film and television industry, while continuing to celebrate and promote…

In the ongoing standoff between the WGA and talent agencies, writers are being sourced for projects through other writers and online, according to producers speaking at the Produced By: New York conference Saturday in New York. They said it's slower this way, but it's going. If we have a project, "We ask other writers…

For the second year in a row, comedic multihyphenate Patton Oswalt will host the Writers Guild Awards Los Angeles-based show on Sunday, February 19, at the Beverly Hilton. In recent years, Oswalt has hosted a number of awards season ceremonies, including the ACE Eddies and the 2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards…

Updated with Univision statement: A week after most of the staff at Univision’s Fusion.net voted to join the Writers Guild of America, the company announced sweeping layoffs that could hit the English language service hardest. Univision said today that it will undergo a restructuring. That could slash as many as 250…

Members of the WGA West are being asked to approve three amendments to the guild's constitution to make it easier for members to run for guild office, and that once elected, for officers and board members to remain in office longer. If approved, the guild would no longer hold elections every year, but every other…

Screenwriter Richard LaGravenese, the Academy Award nominated writer of Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King, will be honored by his peers with the Ian McClellan Hunter Award for Career Achievement at the 68th Annual Writer’s Guild Awards, it was announced today. LaGravenese has written seventeen scripts over his career…

“If there had been a Rotten Tomatoes in 1601, he would have gotten a 73.” So WGAW Vice President Howard A. Rodman compared Shakespeare to television. What he meant is that the Bard in his day was, like television until rather recently, seriously underrated and disrespected. Things change, however, and now, so Rodman…

At least 10 movie productions appear among 145 debtors listed in Relativity’s bankruptcy filing so far. The limited companies’ names mimic titles of the films in question. The movies vary from specialized fare such as Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s feature directing debut Don Jon to major releases like Mirror Mirror…

Nominations for outstanding achievement in writing for videogames in 2014 have been announced by the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE). Winners will be honored at the 2015 Writers Guild Awards on Saturday, February 14, at simultaneous ceremonies in Los Angeles and New…