Happy Belated Daddy Day
While wishing Happy Daddy Day this weekend, let's take a minute to appreciate how much more involved in the lives of their kids dads are today.
While wishing Happy Daddy Day this weekend, let's take a minute to appreciate how much more involved in the lives of their kids dads are today.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 06.12.2009 | Entertainment
With the SAG contract ratified, will the film business finally get back to normal? Unfortunately, no. Although we'll see a brief spike in production,...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 06.09.2009 | Entertainment
In a stunning defeat for the hardline Membership First faction, SAG's TV/theatrical contract passed overwhelmingly, by a 78%-22% margin (almost 4 to 1...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 06.09.2009 | Entertainment
Several months ago, we learned that pilot season this year was 94% AFTRA (or 87% by some calculations), a complete 180 from its usual 90% SAG. That di...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 06.08.2009 | Entertainment
It's tough to get anything produced in Hollywood, and a conference is no exception. Two years in the making, the two-day Produced By Conference not on...
reuters.com | Posted 06.03.2009 | Home
The studio has picked up the movie rights to the popular children's book series from Classic Media with the aim of making a live-action family film. ...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.22.2009 | Entertainment
SAG and AFTRA announced yesterday that their combined paid-up membership, about 132,000 members, overwhelmingly ratified the contracts between the uni...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.20.2009 | Entertainment
David White heralded the proposed agreement between SAG and the studios as "a good deal with solid gains," and added that "Within the context of negotiations [lasting] over a year and an economy changed radically since 2008, it's a fantastic deal."
Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.19.2009 | Entertainment
Where did the Screen Actors Guild go? After months of news, the guild fell off the radar screen. The quiet was deceptive however.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.18.2009 | Entertainment
SAG President Alan Rosenberg, who spoke at the picnic cum rally, predicted "a good chance" of defeat for the pending TV/theatrical deal, but that seems unlikely if MF can only attract a handful of members to an event in LA.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.13.2009 | Entertainment
SAG's Hollywood branch, dominated by the hardline Membership First faction, has passed a motion forming a task force to explore "acquisition of actors...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 04.29.2009 | Entertainment
The ballots for SAG's recently approved TV/theatrical contract won't be going out until mid to late May, a source tells me, several weeks later than t...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 04.20.2009 | Entertainment
The Screen Actors Guild National Board of Directors today voted to approve and recommend to members, new, two-year successor agreements to the 2005 Producer-Screen Actors Guild Codified Basic Agreement.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 04.18.2009 | Entertainment
Hanging over all of this are the twin factors of the economy and new media. The troubled economy will continue to harm the entertainment industry for some time to come.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 04.17.2009 | Entertainment
The Screen Actors Guild stalemate grinds on. Variety says there are back-channel talks with studio heads, but it's hard to know whether talks are actu...
Marissa Moss | Posted 04.15.2009 | Entertainment
Conor and I had a conversation back before the election about his activism, politics, and, of course, the music.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 04.06.2009 | Entertainment
Last year proved that time is not on SAG's side. Recall that the union's then-leadership wanted better terms in new media than the other Hollywood uni...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 04.01.2009 | Entertainment
SAG and AFTRA reached a deal with the advertising industry, retaining the compensation structure for broadcast network commercials, and resisting the industry's attempt to reduce pension and health contributions.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 03.21.2009 | Entertainment
As expected, the membership of IATSE, the union representing Hollywood crew members, ratified that organization's proposed contract with the studios y...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 03.18.2009 | Entertainment
Though it gets less play than the stalled SAG TV/theatrical talks, SAG and AFTRA have been jointly negotiating for several weeks with the advertising industry over the commercials contract.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 03.11.2009 | Entertainment
66 out of 70 TV pilots this year will be shot under AFTRA jurisdiction, reports the Hollywood Reporter today. That's 94% for AFTRA and only 6% for SAG...
Ambria Miscia | Posted 03.03.2009 | Entertainment
For many artists, I predict this recession will have no effect whatsoever -- after all, we've been living like vagabonds for years and have it down to a science!
Jonathan Handel | Posted 02.28.2009 | Entertainment
Keeping you up to date on miscellaneous goings-on in the world of Hollywood labor, here's what's happened in the last week or so: SAG Commercial...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 02.26.2009 | Entertainment
Leno's case is a political hot potato, because it pits the power of a Hollywood guild against the even greater power of one of its prominent members.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 02.22.2009 | Entertainment
By a vote of 73% to 27%, the Screen Actors Guild board of directors voted Saturday to reject the studios' most recent offer, which the studio alliance...
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Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 06.17.2009 | Living