Month: April 2021

“We are announcing now that on June 15 we will be getting rid of the colored [reopening] tiers,” said California Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday. The announcement is based on the assumption that vaccine supplies continue to increase

Writers on ABC’s ‘The Chase’ End Strike as WGA and ITV Resolve Dispute

Writers for the ABC game show The Chase have ended their strike after the show’s producer ITV America has settled the dispute with the Writers Guild. Scribes on the quiz show, which features a team of contestants competing

Industry

Producers Guild Joins Chorus of Opposition to Georgia’s Restrictive Voting Law

The Producers Guild of America has joined the growing chorus of Hollywood guilds opposed to Georgia’s restrictive new voting laws. “The Producers Guild of America strongly opposes the Georgia voter bill as an attempt to restrict the votes

Supreme Court Hands Google a Landmark Win — and Hollywood a Huge Concern

Google can let out a huge sigh of relief now that the Supreme Court has saved the tech giant from billions of dollars in damages in a long-lasting lawsuit brought by Oracle over computer code used to build the Android operating system.

William Yeh Talks of Editing Journey That Led to Bob Odenkirk Action Film ‘Nobody’

“I did an edit without his input and sent it to him at his home in Russia. Though he didn’t say so at the time, he hated it.”

New Double Mutant Coronavirus Variant from India Found in California for First Time

Just as California seemed to be on the verge of truly turning the Covid-19 corner, the Stanford Clinical Virology Lab confirmed a case of an emerging variant that originated in India, Deadline has learned. According to Lisa Kim, Senior Manager of

Jacobin: Amazon Workers Shouldn’t Have to Work this Hard to Win a Union

Voting has wrapped up in the election to determine whether fifty-eight hundred workers at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama will join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union,” writes Barry Eidlin in Jacobin.

Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Workers, Labor Board Finds

Amazon illegally retaliated against two of its most prominent internal critics when it fired them last year, the National Labor Relations Board has determined. The employees, Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, had publicly pushed the

Awards

SAG Awards: A Big Night for Netflix, Diversity and Possible Game Changer for ‘Chicago 7’

Netflix inarguably had a very big night at the SAG Awards, both in movies and TV categories taking half of the latter’s eight categories across three shows (The Queen’s Gambit, Ozark, The Crown), and three of the five big movie categories including

Cole: MLK’s Radical Vision was Rooted in a Long History of Black Unionism

April 4, 2021

“Fifty-three years ago, a racist White man killed the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis,” writes Peter Cole in The Washington Post. “King’s presence there was no coincidence. The city’s predominantly Black sanitation workers were on