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
Since early Might, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has been putting for higher pay and protections towards AI (amongst different circumstances). Over the months, help for the union has persevered throughout varied avenues, and grown as SAG-AFTRA has additionally joined in on the strike efforts. Although final weekend noticed botched negotiations between the WGA … Read more
Up to date 5/26/2023, 7:17 P.M. ET: The Writers Guild of America-West posted a tweet endorsing President Obama’s statements in assist of the union and strike effort on Friday afternoon, following preliminary publication of this text. Andrew Callaghan on His Radical Method to Interviewing Earlier: The Writers Guild of America is at the moment on … Read more
Picture: Rodin Eckenroth / Stringer (Getty Photographs) The takeaway right here is just not that our favourite reveals are going to fail, however that via company greed and a failure to regulate to the instances, tv and film writing has grow to be a depreciated, devalued, and uninviting profession. Writers are struggling to make lease, … Read more