At the Cannes Film Festival the Palme d’Or was awarded Sunday night to The Square, Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s blisteringly funny and provocative portrait of a modern-art museum curator enduring a crisis of conscience. […]
“2016 was a so-so year for Big Media companies,” writes David Lieberman in Deadline Hollywood. “But you wouldn’t know that if you look at how much boards paid the chiefs of CBS, Comcast, Discovery Comm., Disney, Fox, Time Warner, and Viacom. […]
Responding to the Broadway League statement regarding arbitration, Local 817 president Tom O’Donnell told Deadline that the Hollywood studios had a similar response when the casting directors sought union recognition more than a decade ago. […]
Ratification of the new three-year WGA film and TV contract has been overwhelmingly approved by members of the WGA East and West, bringing to a close Hollywood’s most contentious contract struggle in a decade. Of the 3,647 valid votes cast there were 3,617 “yes” votes (99.2%) and 30 “no” votes (.8%). […]
If so-called “pattern bargaining” holds, a deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers is expected to be reached in line with the agreements reached recently by the DGA and the WGA, including higher pay rates for […]
Despite a major effort by Los Angeles over the last two years to lure film production back to where it started, producers continue to make big-budget movies elsewhere, saying they get better tax breaks and subsidies outside of Hollywood. […]
The Cannes film festival kicks off on Wednesday with a familiar mix of big-name auteurs, a sprinkling of Hollywood glamour, and little-known hopefuls aiming to make an impact on one of the biggest stages in world cinema. […]
Now in its 207th day, the union’s strike against 11 video game companies has pitted the companies’ desire to maintain a 20-year-old pay structure that includes no forms of residuals against the union’s demand for some type of residuals […]
The union received additional funding for its training program for episodic TV writers, which is geared toward improving the lot of women and minority writers. Under the new deal, CBS, ABC and NBC will now be kicking in a total of $250,000 a year for the program in each of the three years of the contract […]
So what are SAG-AFTRA’s priorities? Like the writers, actors want more flexibility when they sign contracts for increasingly fashionable short-run TV series. Most shows once shot 22 episodes per season; today, it’s common for many to run just […]
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