2023 was a labor-heavy year for the entertainment industry thanks to the Hollywood strikes. While actors, writers, and directors now have new deals, other parts of the industry are still working to ensure better conditions and AI safeguards. Were There Any Scenes Cut Connecting Ghostbusters: Afterlife to Frozen Empire? Late Friday night, it was revealed … Read more
At the start of November, SAG-AFTRA managed to secure a tentative deal with studios to bring the actors strike to an end. As the union’s members are voting on the contract, SAG-AFTRA has released its draft for the general public to go through in its full, 128-page glory. Who’s This Thing Actually for? | PlayStation … Read more
Image: SAG/AFTRA Following the news Wednesday night that the SAG-AFTRA strike had come to an end after nearly 120 days, supporters have been waiting to hear more details about the tentative agreement. Today, union president Fran Drescher, national executive director and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, and others held a press conference following the SAG-AFTRA National … Read more
Nearly 120 days after authorizing an actors strike, SAG-AFTRA may have finally locked down a deal. The New M3-Powered iMacs Are Triggering Serious Deja Vu According to the Hollywood Reporter, the union revealed it and the AMPTP have come to an agreement after months of on-and-off (and often contentious) negotiating. During that time, SAG-AFTRA told … Read more
Image: ROBYN BECK / Contributor (Getty Images) After over 100 days of withholding work, SAG-AFTRA is working on a counteroffer to the proposal from four CEOs who met with them on Tuesday. The CEOs are represented by the AMPTP, but Variety reports that their personal involvement was to “impress on SAG-AFTRA leadership the economic stakes … Read more
On July 13, 2023, SAG-AFTRA confirmed that its members would indeed go on strike. Much like with the WGA months prior, the organization’s discussions with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) failed to result in an acceptable contract regarding streaming revenue, AI concerns, and much more. And for the first time since … Read more
After a tentative fair deal between writers and studios was reached on September 24, you can now remove “tentative” from that: the WGA strike, which began May 2 and put the state of Hollywood production under a microscope, is over-over. The acting union, SAG-AFTRA, has been on strike since July 13 and remains so. Microsoft … Read more
Image: Mario Tama (Getty Images) After tenuous negotiations, the WGA appear to have finally reached a fair deal with the AMPTP after nearly 140 days on strike, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The strike began on May 2, 2023 after the WGA and the AMPTP failed to come to a consensus for terms on writers’ … Read more
Image: Universal Fancasting popular actors into big properties is nothing new, but every once in a while, you see that actually pay off in the material itself. Almost everyone has an ideal actor they think would be best to portray a particular character, and in the case of One Piece, fans have been clamoring for … Read more
Picture: Kevin Winter (Getty Pictures) As SAG-AFTRA reaches the tip of its second month on strike, the union could have discovered an unlikely hero within the face of Taylor Swift. The singer-songwriter has reportedly met the union’s calls for over the discharge of her live performance movie for The Eras Tour, which is able to … Read more