The International Documentary Association said Richard Ray Perez has been named the organization’s next executive director. Perez, a nonfiction film strategist and documentary filmmaker, succeeds Simon Kilmurry, who is stepping […]
Sheila Ivy Traister has given 44 years of cumulative service to the labor movement. She has held elected positions in the Colorado AFL-CIO and she has served SAG-AFTRA since before the merger. She has served on dozens of local committees […]
As states continue to open up and the film industry kicks back into high gear, California Governor Gavin Newsom is attempting to lure more productions to California. The governor has added $30 million to the state’s film and television […]
SAG-AFTRA’s longtime National Executivce Director David White will step down this spring, after 12 years in the role, the guild announced on Friday. White, who took his post as the guild’s chief negotiator in 2009, oversaw the 2012 merger […]
Ten top media and entertainment CEOs earned a combined $350 million last year, buoyed by hefty stock and option grants during the worst economic disruption since the Great Depression. Members of compensation committees on […]
“At businesses, whether indoors or outdoors, masks are still required to be worn,” said Los Angeles Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer Thursday afternoon. Just minutes before, President Joe Biden delivered a different message. […]
The serious tensions that remain with the company’s unions were put on vivid display outside Lincoln Center on Thursday, as hundreds of union members rallied in opposition to the Met’s lockout of its stagehands and management’s demands for […]
Top movie theater circuit AMC Entertainment said it has raised $428 million in new capital from the sale of 43 million shares at an average price of $9.94. The results of the sale followed a plan laid out in an April 27 SEC filing. […]
“In the past few years I’ve found myself questioning my assumptions and doubting what I thought I knew about my country,” writes A.O. Scott in The New York Times. “What if the good guys don’t always win? What if people can’t find […]
The Metropolitan Opera reached a tentative agreement Tuesday on a four-year contract with the American Guild of Musical Artists, one of three major labor deals needed for the New York company to resume performances in September. […]
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