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Your Hollywood Career: How to Tell When the End Is Nigh
A scribe who survived the newsweekly apocalypse and then the scripted comedy crash offers some handy tips on when to bail on a failing industry.
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Workers at Nonfiction Production Company Lucky 8 Launch Union Drive
The Writers Guild of America East, which has long sought to organize more of the largely non-union unscripted space, is backing the effort.
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SAG-AFTRA Donates $1 Million for L.A. Fires Relief
The performers' union earmarked the funds for the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, a nonprofit that offers emergency financial aid and education to members.
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L.A. Fires Another Brutal Blow to Battered Hollywood Crew Members
Workers who have recently weathered multiple production slowdowns are now being hammered by another event outside their control: "I keep reinventing myself. And this just kicked me right in the gut."
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Canada’s Actors Union, Indie Producers Reach Tentative New Labor Deal
Members of ACTRA National will vote on the new three-year Independent Production Agreement between Jan. 15 and 21.
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Animation Guild Ratifies Contract With Studios and Streamers
A little more than three quarters of voting members opted to accept the three-year deal.
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Musicians in Canada Ratify New Deal For Film and TV Projects With Indie Producers
The first-ever Independent Production Agreement establishes terms, conditions and rates for professional musicians working on English-language productions in Canada.
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Village Roadshow Accused of Late Payments As Writers Guild Readies Stop-Work Order
The 'Matrix Resurrections' and 'Joker' producer recently laid off staff as the company explored strategic options.
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Writers Guild Calls on Studios to Take “Immediate Legal Action” Against AI Companies
The union is arguing that tech companies "looted the studios’ intellectual property" while Hollywood's major companies stood by.
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‘Love Is Blind’ Contestants Are Employees, National Labor Relations Board Complaint Says
An agency office in Minnesota is alleging that producers for the hit Netflix dating show had contestants sign contracts with illegal provisions.
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Union at ‘Summer of Soul’ Producer RadicalMedia Voluntarily Recognized
The Writers Guild of America East, which backed the organizing drive, is aiming to begin negotiations over a first contract in the new year.
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Animation Guild Executive Board Defends Deal Terms As Some Members Criticize Contract
The board released the statement as some negotiating committee members have expressed that they are voting "no" on the tentative deal.
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