President Biden on Monday signed an executive order creating a new White House task force focused on promoting labor unions that will be led by Vice President Harris. The executive order directs the new task force to make recommendations […]
Passed by the Democratic-led House of Representatives in March and supported by President Joe Biden, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act would dramatically reform labor law in the United States. Among other measures, it would […]
Capping a year that few in Hollywood will forget, much as they might want to, the 93rd Oscars ceremony Sunday night delivered an impassioned message that, while the movies may be down, they are far from out. As expected, the […]
Ai-jen Poo, co-founder of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, was facing a quandary: She was making little headway getting the New York state legislature to enact a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. It was 2008, and the bill of rights, which called for overtime pay, one day off a week, and protections […]
“Mank’s early Hollywood is strictly an old boys club,” writes Hilary Hallet in The Los Angeles Times. “Here men with outsized talent, ambition and ego battle over the industry’s political and artistic future. Marion Davies — the platinum-blond actress and […]
According to FilmLA’s latest report, filming in the city shows more signs of rebounding after a major downturn amid the pandemic. After the COVID-19 surge in January and the voluntary industry production pause that resulted, film […]
The Broadway League has confirmed that producer Scott Rudin has resigned from its ranks, a move that could have colossal ramifications on the Broadway landscape now and in the foreseeable future. Without League membership, Rudin […]
On Saturday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health released new Covid-19 data, reporting 16 new deaths and 443 new positive cases of the virus. The number of hospital stays continues to decrease, the positivity rate is 0.7%. […]
In lieu of its traditional awards luncheon this year, which was canceled because of the pandemic, the Publicists of the International Cinematographers Guild, IATSE Local 600, have raised more than $60,000 to support the guild’s […]
Diane Adler, the pioneering film editor who spent five seasons on The Rockford Files and cut other TV series including Kojak, Spenser: For Hire and Riptide, has died. She was 97. Adler died Thursday in Los Angeles, her family announced. […]
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