On Wednesday, the Writers Guild East announced that writers at Salon had unanimously ratified their first collective bargaining agreement, marking the union’s seventh contract in digital media. The day before, the union said that promo writers […]
“The exact vote tally for the new contract still is unknown, as only 10 of the 13 locals have released their actual vote totals,” writes David Robb in Deadline Hollywood. “The known votes left the ‘yes’ votes trailing the ‘no’ votes — 5,846 to 6,883. […]
Stephen Elliott, a writer and film-maker who claims his life was ruined after his name appeared on the “Shitty Media Men” list that circulated online last year, is now making moves to identify the spreadsheet’s anonymous contributors. In a libel suit […]
A sound crewmember on the Tom Hanks-starring Mister Rogers biopic has died after he fell two stories from a Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania, building Thursday night on the set of the film, according to the Associated Press and numerous reports. […]
IATSE members have ratified a new three-year film and TV contract in one of the most hotly debated and contentious votes in the union’s 125-year history. The contract was ratified by a vote of 308-73 in an electoral college-style system that allots […]
SAG-AFTRA has issued a ‘Do Not Work’ order to its members against Keys to the City, a basic cable movie starring Isaiah Washington that is shooting in and around Atlanta. According to the union, as of two days prior to October 11, the production […]
Eighty-seven countries have submitted films for consideration for the Oscar in the foreign language film category for the 91st Academy Awards. That number is down slightly from the record 92 films that were submitted last year. For the first time […]
Netflix announced Albuquerque, New Mexico, as the site of a new US production hub — which the company said will bring upwards of $1 billion in production money to New Mexico over the next decade and up to 1,000 production jobs per year. […]
Hollywood producer Gavin Polone is no stranger to a film set. But for as much time as he has spent on film and television sets, Polone has always wondered how grueling, 17-hour-day production schedules affect below-the-line workers […]
Given the choice, the creator of the hit TV series The Good Doctor says he would move production of the show from Vancouver to Hollywood – an exit that would remove a high-profile example of B.C.’s multibillion-dollar production […]
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