Hollywood News: WGA Battle - The Hollywood Fight That’s Tearing Apart Writers & Agents UPDATE: 2023 Strike OVER but SAG still at it!

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Sarah Silverman Slams Actors for Working Under SAG Indie Interim Agreements: ‘It’s Scabbing’

Sarah Silverman has seen the so-called SAG waivers — and she’s not a fan. In a recent video posted to Instagram, the comedian slash actor slammed fellow Hollywood stars for continuing to film indep…

variety.com

 

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Viola Davis Opts to Pause On 'G20' Movie Despite Getting SAG Waiver

Viola Davis may have just set a precedent for other A-listers amid the ongoing SAG-WGA strikes.

www.tmz.com

 

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Actors Picket For SAG Strike

Actors Picket For SAG Strike

www.tmz.com

A-Listers With SAG Waivers

A-Listers With SAG Waivers

www.tmz.com

Celebrities Picket With The WGA

Celebrities Picket With The WGA

www.tmz.com

 

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Will Smith Calls SAG-AFTRA Strike “Pivotal Moment” For Actors

Will Smith put a high-profile spotlight today on his fellow actors and scribes out on strike. With the WGA labor action closing in on 90 days that writers have been on the picket lines, and SAG-AFT…

deadline.com

 

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Hollywood's Plastic Surgery Business Booming With Actors During Strike

Some of Hollywood's top actors have been using the downtime during the ongoing strike to get some work done ... according to a Bev Hills plastic surgeon who says his business is booming.

www.tmz.com

 

[ansatsusha_gouki]

Should be ready by 2035 - 2036 is word on the street. Maybe 2037.

Naw...2050

 

[easy_b]

I agree with the union because some of these studios was really low balling people I mean seriously low bowling.

 

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Can AI Replace Actors? Here’s How Digital Double Tech Works

Motion capture and detailed face scans allow TV and film production teams to replicate a performer’s likeness. Generative AI is making the process faster and easier

www.scientificamerican.com

 

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Unpacking Bob Iger’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good PR Week

Many in Hollywood hoped the re-upped Disney CEO, long considered the corporate leader most in tune with talent, would emerge as a levelheaded mediator who could end the labor impasse. And then he spoke his mind.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

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After Unions’ Legal Threat, Radford Studio Center Allows Picketing At Main Entrance

The turnabout follows The Hollywood Reporter detailing picketing conditions at the lot.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

When Will the Strikes End? Lessons From 1960

History is a rough guide — and AI is the major wild card — but there’s much to glean from that decades ago walkout in how to make a deal.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

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Charter Loses 200,000 Pay TV Subs in Second Quarter

The cable giant, with Chris Winfrey as CEO, has reported its latest earnings and pay TV and broadband user results.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler to Studios: “Come to Your Senses” and “Get Back to the Table”

The leader of the U.S.’ largest labor federation had some words for the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers when she stopped by a picket at Fox Studios on Thursday.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Just For Laughs: Where Stand-Up Comedy Thrives Amid Hollywood Strikes

Lucrative concert touring has become more than a side hustle for global talent gathered in Montreal to show studio scouts, streaming execs and club bookers how their comedy connects with audiences.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Writers Guild, SAG-AFTRA Threaten Legal Action Over Radford Picketing Conditions

The unions contend the historic Studio City lot — owned by a private equity firm that is seeking approval on a politically sensitive billion-dollar renovation — has made protesting there unnecessarily dangerous.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Hollywood’s Major Crew Union Debates How to Use AI as Contract Talks Loom

While IATSE unveils its "core principles" for use of the technology, members weigh in on the potential impact to their locals and how to develop best practices — or ways to confront encroachment.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Business News | Hollywood Reporter

Money, stocks, acquisitions, reports, and more business news from THR

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

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Unpacking Bob Iger’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good PR Week

Many in Hollywood hoped the re-upped Disney CEO, long considered the corporate leader most in tune with talent, would emerge as a levelheaded mediator who could end the labor impasse. And then he spoke his mind.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

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With Actors on Strike, What Will Happen to Fall Press Tours?

As the SAG and WGA strikes wage on, the AMPTP faces a season without its biggest creatives to promote upcoming content. That leaves the fall season looking very... different.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

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Writers Strike: Everyone is Mad at the Master Until You Become It. Karen Hunter & Dr. Daniel Black​

very good info

 

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What made them think this man was “talent-friendly”? Planting stories in Variety and The Hollywood Reporter doesn’t engender you to the working people.

 

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With Actors on Strike, What Will Happen to Fall Press Tours?

As the SAG and WGA strikes wage on, the AMPTP faces a season without its biggest creatives to promote upcoming content. That leaves the fall season looking very... different.

www.thedailybeast.com

Going to be lots of reality show people on these press tours instead...

 

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Going to be lots of reality show people on these press tours instead...

plenty of podcast interviews to boost their profiles / followings as well. Attention being currency and all.

 

[ThaBurgerPimp]

Let's see how this goes..

 

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Former Arrow star Stephen Amell condemns SAG-AFTRA strike: 'I do not support striking'

"I think it's myopic," the actor said of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike.

www.yahoo.com

 

[playahaitian]

Let's see how this goes..

Good.

They needed to.

 

[ThaBurgerPimp]

Good.

They needed to.

As long as the subject of AI isnt brought up...

 

[playahaitian]

As long as the subject of AI isnt brought up...

You think the studios aint budging on that?

 

[ThaBurgerPimp]

You think the studios aint budging on that?

Also kind of a coincidence that this news surfaced right after this was reported

 

[playahaitian]

Also kind of a coincidence that this news surfaced right after this was reported

Ok I heard this a little while back.

Damn if they didn't go through with it.

 

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Viola Davis Hits Pause on Her Next Film Despite Getting SAG-AFTRA Greenlight

The Oscar winner said that, given the actors and writers strikes, she does “not feel that it would be appropriate” to film the production.

www.vanityfair.com

 

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https://lamag.com/film/viola-davis-union-hero-g20

 

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Actors Are Turning on Each Other as SAG-AFTRA Strike Rules Get Blurry — Viola Davis & Sarah Silverman Speak Out

Stars are not seeing eye to eye on this major SAG-AFTRA strike problem.

www.sheknows.com

 

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The fight over movies getting permission to film during the strike is getting messy

Viola Davis announced she's stepping away from her new movie, G20, despite getting union permission to film, while Sarah Silverman has criticized the practice

www.avclub.com

 

[actinanass]

again.... let hollywood die.

 

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Former Arrow star Stephen Amell condemns SAG-AFTRA strike: 'I do not support striking'

"I think it's myopic," the actor said of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike.

www.yahoo.com

Stephen Amell Clarifies Anti-Strike Statements: ‘When You See Me on a Picket Line Please Don’t Whip Any Hard Fruit’

After drawing backlash, Stephen Amell clarified his comments about the SAG-AFTRA strike.

variety.com

 

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