“It doesn’t help that we have a president who came out as being in this group, and he was still elected,” Black-ish creator Kenya Barris said, referencing Donald Trump’s infamous Access Hollywood “Grab them by the pussy” tape. “The idea of being […]
According to a termination letter obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, Dick was let go from the horror comedy ‘Vampire Dad’ due to “multiple, flagrant acts of improper conduct and inappropriate contact with several cast and crew members.” […]
“After seven years as a union activist, [Randy] Bryce exploded onto the national political scene in June with a viral announce-ment video one congressman called the greatest campaign launch he’d ever seen,” writes Tim Murphy in Mother Jones. […]
New Zealand’s controversial “Hobbit law,” which prevents workers in that country’s film industry from unionizing, will likely be on its way out in the next hundred days, according to a senior government minister interviewed by The Hollywood Reporter […]
The Producers Guild of America has banned disgraced studio mogul Harvey Weinstein for life from the trade organization. The PGA’s move was announced on Monday afternoon and was widely expected. The organization said its National Board […]
Labor unions are leading the fight against a New York ballot measure to hold a constitutional convention. They argue that it’s just too risky to tinker with the state’s governing document and threaten existing protections for worker’s compensation, […]
Has America at last reached a turning point on sexual harassment? Watching the events of the past three weeks, one can hope. In the wake of Harvey Weinstein’s sudden and overdue expulsion from Hollywood for his serial predation […]
Saturday at the Sofitel Hotel in Beverly Hills, Ava DuVernay described her experience as a black woman from Compton, who moved from publicity to filmmaking, and has now been granted a VFX education on the latest techniques while directing […]
When House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called on President Donald Trump this week to increase aid to the residents of hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico, Sacramento-area nurse Catherine Kennedy was by her side. Kennedy, a neonatal […]
“Earlier this month, [Los Angeles Times] employees arrived at their desks to find flyers announcing that ‘a majority of the newsroom has already signed [union] cards,’” writes Alex Press in Jacobin. “While the old Los Angeles Times building was blown-up, with twenty-one people killed, in 1910 by a radical hoping to […]
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