WGA And Producers Reach Deal To End 5-Month Strike Negotiations conclude with three-year contract, production plans underway Zenger · Sep 27, 2023
Hollywood writers end strike after guild approves deal with studios Leaders of the screenwriters union declared their nearly five-month-old strike over Tuesday after board members approved a contract agreement with studios, bringing Hollywood at least partly back from a historic halt in production. France 24 · Sep 27, 2023
Hollywood writers agree to end five-month strike after new studio deal Writers Guild of America said its members could return to work while a ratification vote takes place for fresh three-year contract The Guardian - US · Sep 27, 2023
Hollywood video game actors vote to strike if talks fail ‘It’s time for the video game companies to stop playing games and get serious’ The Independent UK · Sep 26, 2023
‘DWTS’ to premiere as scheduled Tuesday after writers reach a deal Lineup of competitors will include Matt Walsh, Chicago native who had walked off in support of his union. Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 26, 2023
Is the Hollywood writers’ strike over? The provisional deal explained A tentative agreement has been announced but what does it mean for the industry and the viewers? The Guardian - US · Sep 25, 2023
Hollywood Won't Bounce Back From Historic Strike As Quickly As You Think The WGA has reached a deal. Here's what it means for your favorite shows Inverse · Sep 25, 2023
Writers strike end is in sight The WGA and AMPTP are currently in the process of drafting the final contract language Salon · Sep 25, 2023
‘Exceptional’: Hollywood writers hail tentative deal to end strike Writers Guild of America says agreement with studios on pay and conditions ‘due to the willingness of this membership to exercise its power’ The Guardian - US · Sep 25, 2023
Win for Writers Guild, Loss for AI Plus: IRS insanity, robocop photo ops, and more... Reason · Sep 25, 2023
Hollywood writers near end of months-long strike. What happens next? If writers approve tentative deal, work on some Hollywood shows could resume quickly. Here’s all you need to know. Al Jazeera · Sep 25, 2023
‘We did it’: Hollywood writers react to ‘tentative agreement’ to end strike The US writers strike began on May 2. Evening Standard · Sep 25, 2023
Hollywood writers’ strike: WGA reaches ‘tentative’ deal to end 146-day strike After five days of negotiations with studios and streaming services, union says it has an ‘exceptional’ deal for members to vote on The Guardian - US · Sep 25, 2023
Triple threat METTE: ‘I’m not trying to do everything. I’m just trying to be myself’ As dancer, actress, and now pop star, METTE, releases her debut EP, the triple threat talent discusses moving from backup to centre stage, working with Pharrell and finding inspiration at a Justin Timberlake concert Evening Standard · Sep 22, 2023
Inverse · Sep 21, 2023 Star Wars Geek Sung Kang Reveals the Thing He Stole From 'Obi-Wan's Set The 'Shaky Shivers' director (and Fast and Furious star) talks about how acting in 'Obi-Wan' renewed an old passion for Star Wars.
Capital & Main · Sep 21, 2023 Unemployment for Hollywood’s Striking Writers and Stars? It’s Newsom’s Move Now. Governor could leap past politics and sign unemployment bill just to keep striking workers in an uneven game.
Evening Standard · Sep 21, 2023 Stephen Fry expresses his anger at his voice being AI cloned for documentary Stephen Fry’s famous audiobook readings of all seven Harry Potter books have allowed his voice to be cloned by AI
The Independent UK · Sep 20, 2023 As writers and studios resume negotiations, here are the key players in the Hollywood strikes Negotiations between striking screenwriters and Hollywood studios resume Wednesday, the latest attempt to bring an end to pickets that have brought film and television productions to a halt
The Guardian - US · Sep 19, 2023 Strikes aren’t bad for the US economy. They’re the best thing that could happen Auto workers, writers, actors, Starbucks workers, Amazon workers, UPS drivers, flight attendants – labor isn’t a ‘special interest’. It’s all of us
Fortune · Sep 19, 2023 Taylor Swift made her Eras Tour movie mid-strike by doing everything Hollywood won’t: actually meeting unions’ demands Swift doesn't need a major studio to create a major pop culture moment.
The Independent UK · Sep 18, 2023 With Hollywood on strike, Biden leans on Broadway stars in hunt for campaign cash President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is getting some fundraising help from Broadway's biggest names
The Independent UK · Sep 18, 2023 A new breed of leaders are atop the largest US unions today. Here are some faces to know From picket lines in Hollywood to walkouts against Detroit automakers, it's already been a big year for labor organizing — and behind several major showdowns with enormous companies are some of America's largest unions
Salon · Sep 17, 2023 The talk show strike mess, explained The overlapping nature of the dual Hollywood strikes means you can scab even while complying. Salon breaks it down
The Guardian - US · Sep 15, 2023 Drew Barrymore makes tearful apology for restarting TV show during strike Actor apologises for controversial decision to resume production of show, saying she didn’t want to ‘upset or hurt anyone’
Fortune · Sep 15, 2023 Striking actor Stephen Fry says his voice was stolen from the Harry Potter audiobooks and replicated by AI The actor told an audience in London that AI was a “burning issue” for actors.