“Disappearing like this has created difficulty for a lot of people.
02.02.2020 - 08:16 / deadline.com
By Anthony D'Alessandro
Editorial Director/Box Office Editor
Tonight at the WGA Awards, WGAW President David A. Goodman addressed the elephant in the room: Concerns of a possible strike as WGA talks approach with the AMPTP. At the same time he praised the progress that the guild has made in hammering out franchise agreements with several agencies.
And as far as the big 4 holdouts?
“Most of them have said repeatedly directly to me that they want to make a deal. So we continue to our
“Disappearing like this has created difficulty for a lot of people.
Tyler, the Creator gave a special shoutout to former U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May during an acceptance speech at the 2020 Brit Awards on Tuesday, where he won the trophy for Best International Male Artist. In 2015, when May was Home Secretary, she banned Tyler from entering the country in 2015 on the grounds that his lyrics "foster hatred with views that seek to provoke others to terrorist acts."
Ten months after thousands of Hollywood scribes fired their agents amid a failure to reach a new franchise agreement, the leader of the Writers Guild of America West says the union has "had substantive discussions with all but one" of the major talent agencies.On Friday, WGA West president David A.
Yikes. Jim Carrey came under fire on Twitter after making a crude remark to a female reporter during a press junket for his new movie, Sonic the Hedgehog.
You've got to shoot your shot!
Members of the Writers Guild have strongly backed a negotiating proposal that requires studios to bar non-franchised talent agents from representing WGA members.
Over the years, various filmmakers have flirted with the idea of Gotham city. The location has basically acted as the backbone of every Batman-adjacent plotline ever narrated.
By Anthony D'Alessandro, Dade Hayes
It’s going to be a busy year for the Writers Guild of America, as the org will enter negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to finalize a new deal between writers and producers. At Saturday night’s WGA Awards, talk of negotiations — and the potential for a strike — were among topics of conversation.
By Anthony D'Alessandro
Moments ago, the 2020 Writers Guild Awards began. Interestingly, the show kicked off by announcing both of the big Film prizes, Original Screenplay and Adapted Screenplay.
By Anthony D'Alessandro, Matt Grobar, Dade Hayes
The Writers Guild of America will hand out its top awards of the year in concurrent ceremonies on both the East and West Coasts on Saturday night.
Nancy Meyers Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement The first job screenwriter Meyers had in the industry was as a story editor for Oscar nominated producer Ray Stark. “It was an exciting job working for him,” says Meyers, recipient of the Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement.
Another Living Single star has hopped on Twitter to remind David Schwimmer of something important: they did it first. Kim Coles, who played Synclaire James-Jones on the hit 1990s sitcom, called the actor “naive” on Twitter for suggesting that an “all-black” or “all-Asian” reboot of Friends would make up for the show’s lack of diversity.