LOS ANGELES — The major Hollywood studios have told the Screen Actors Guild that if the union does not accept its final contract offer by Aug. 1...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.16.2008 | Entertainment
Expanding on my previous post, I do want to acknowledge the obvious: this vote was a strong victory for AFTRA, especially in light of SAG's aggressive...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.16.2008 | Entertainment
SAG will be emboldened by the low yes vote achieved by AFTRA, and is likely to resist compromise with the AMPTP for some time to come.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.13.2008 | Entertainment
Ironically, while spurning qualified voting for their own union, SAG's leadership urges it on AFTRA.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.06.2008 | Entertainment
Marx posited that history repeats itself: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. This year seems proof of that with the SAG commercials contract expiring this fall.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 06.25.2008 | Entertainment
It's time for SAG to put its full efforts into crafting the best deal it can get, rather than try to derail the AFTRA primetime deal.
Roger Wolfson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
The groundwork for the writers' strike started with something the town rarely notices: a routine, biannual WGA election.
Michael Russnow | Posted 09.13.2008 | Entertainment
It's intriguing how the writers' strike rumor mill builds everybody up and then shoots him or her down.
MSNBC | Michael Ventre | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Now that the Directors Guild of America has reached an accord with Hollywood studios, the striking writers have returned to the bargaining table in th...
AP | LIBBY QUAID | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Republican Mike Huckabee, a presidential candidate sounding a populist theme in Iowa, likely will be forced to cross a writers' picket line if he app...
New York Times | Brooks Barnes | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
A dozen striking screenwriters gathered in the bar at the Hotel Bel Air not long ago to decompress after another day on the picket line. Less than 10 ...
AP | Gary Gentile | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Film and TV writers who've been on strike for nearly a month are mulling a new contract offer from Hollywood studios. Producers said the offer they pr...
AP | FRAZIER MOORE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
With his nonstriking "Late Night" staffers facing layoffs after Friday, Conan O'Brien has promised to cover their salaries next week, an NBC spokeswom...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The AMPTP has created no YouTube videos of its own, opting instead for the old-media alternative of occasional paid advertising in the papers and trades.
Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
I am thrilled to give you a report on how today's much-anticipated resumed contract talks went between the writers and the producers. And they went we...
Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
As the WGA strike begins its 4th week, I've been told positive news about today's resumption of contract talks between the writers and the producers. ...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
There's something innocent and pure, too, about the writers here: Sure, they're striking for money, but that's not why they write -- that they do for love.
Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki FInke | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
This is the tenth of the Writers Guild Of America member-conceived Internet videos for Project "Speechless" featuring A-list Screen Actors Guild talen...
New York Times | Michael Cieply and Brooks Barnes | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
un Tzu, the Chinese sage, warned of the danger in prolonged conflict. "Let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns," he wrote in "The Art ...
Los Angeles Times | Richard Verrier and Andrea Chang | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
As thousands of TV and film writers marched along Hollywood Boulevard in the third week of their strike, film officials put a price tag on the potenti...
New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The tentpoles of Comedy Central have recorded ratings declines in the first two weeks of the writers' strike. Both "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" ...
New York Times | Edward Wyatt | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
On the picket lines, striking television and film writers adamantly claim that studios are refusing to pay for the use of writers' scripts on the Inte...
AP | Jeremy Herron | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
CBS News writers authorized their union leaders to call a national strike, the Writers Guild of America said Monday, escalating a labor impasse. Abou...
Ad Age | Brian Steinberg | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The writers strike has media buyers growing cautious about the efficacy of TV advertising in the weeks ahead and in the first quarter of 2008 -- and m...
New York Post | Holly Sanders | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The Hollywood writers' strike, which is bringing a premature end to the current TV season, now threatens to delay development of next fall's schedule...
AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 07.17.2008 | Entertainment