IATSE & Producers Set To Resume Contract Talks Today

Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week we’re speaking to super-producer Alexander Rodnyansky in advance of his upcoming fall festival run. His latest title, Mama, I’m Home, is premiering in Venice’s Horizons section while his Cannes Un Certain Regard winner Unclenching The Fists is set to screen in Telluride. 

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“We have made some progress, but the employers have indicated they have done all they need to do,” read the memo signed by IATSE President Matthew D. Loeb and representatives for 13 locals.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterIATSE told members on Tuesday that little progress has been made in recent negotiations on the basic agreement with the major studios, and that the two sides “remain very far apart.”The basic agreement was set to expire on July 31, but has been extended to Sept. 10 to allow for further negotiations.

Selome Hailu editorLongtime attorney Eric Farber has launched Creators’ Legal, an online platform that offers contract templates and other dealmaking tools designed for content creators.The website offers a range of industry standard contracts, as well as the ability to sign and store agreements in a “digital briefcase.” The contracts are drafted by content and media lawyers and cater to filmmakers, musicians, social influencers and content creators, podcasters and live theater.

EXCLUSIVE: Cooper Raiff is set to direct, and 30WEST to finance The Trashers, a drama based on the true story of a Connecticut-based businessman who bought the city’s minor league hockey team in 2004 and assigned his teenage son to run it. The team’s unexpected rise ended when the teen’s father, Jimmy Galante, was arrested on 72 criminal charges. The hockey saga is profiled in an episode of Netflix’s new docu-series, Untold.

K.J. Yossman Emma Appleton (“The Witcher”) and Bel Powley (“The Morning Show”) have nabbed the lead roles in Working Title Television’s forthcoming adaptation of Dolly Alderton’s memoir “Everything I Know About Love.”Appleton is currently filming FX series “Pistol,” about the Sex Pistols, where she plays the tragic Nancy Spungen, who was murdered by her boyfriend, Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious.

EXCLUSIVE: Fourteen of Hollywood’s top cinematographers – including Oscar winners John Toll, Roger Deakins, Emmanuel Lubezki and Erik Messerschmidt – have signed a letter urging the member companies of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to finally address “the hazards of unsafe working hours” that have been common in the film and TV industry for decades.

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EXCLUSIVE: Beth Goddard (Manhunt) is set as a series regular opposite Samantha Morton in Starz’s The Serpent Queen, an eight-part period drama about Catherine de Medici. Additionally, Alex Heath (Home) recurs in the series from writer and executive producer Justin Haythe (Revolutionary Road), Francis Lawrence & Erwin Stoff. Production is underway in France.

Jean-Claude Van Damme is looking back at working on “Double Impact” and being a bit “crazy”.

Will Thorne Staff WriterThe list of what surprises Gale Anne Hurd in the entertainment business is a very short one, and the backlash to the legal battle between Scarlett Johansson and the Walt Disney Company certainly isn’t on it.Hurd has been a driving force behind some of the biggest films ever made (“The Terminator,” “Aliens” and “Armageddon”) and a small screen franchise which, for a time, was the most watched show in television (“The Walking Dead”).