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Billy Ray, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director and producer who has used his downtime during the Hollywood labor strife between shifts on the picket lines to turn Strike Talk into a tour de force that has demystified the issues and explained the inflection point that made this standoff unavoidable, this week strikes his most hopeful tone in the 21 podcasts he has done so far.

As this seemingly endless Hollywood-hobbling strike hits week 20, Billy Ray seeks input from two veterans of the business – a vet TV exec, Peter Aronson, and a columnist, The Ankler’s Richard Rushfield — on how we got to this point and what needs to happen to get people working again. Among the points covered: how the AMPTP’S decision to chase the Netflix streaming model has had calamitous results, the high price of the signatory’s PR false messaging, and what has to happen in next week’s resumption of talks to get Hollywood back to work. Things are getting desperate — Bill Maher & Drew Barrymore are getting flamed on social media for resuming their shows, sans writers. Their reasoning; after five months without a paycheck waiting for the guilds and studios to make a deal, employees on those shows who are not members of the guilds are starving.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor It’s time for Peter Sarsgaard to finally shatter the Oscar glass. Once upon a time, actor Peter Sarsgaard won the most precursors prizes during the 2003-2004 awards season for his supporting turn in Billy Ray’s “Shattered Glass.” In the film, he plays Charles Lane, a newly promoted editor who suspects one of his revered writers (played by Hayden Christensen) could have fabricated some of his stories. It was a breakout performance in the early days of online Oscar punditry that had everyone buzzing.

Welcome to the 19th installment of Deadline’s Strike Talk podcast. It is a task Oscar-nominated filmmaker Billy Ray took on at the beginning of the Writers Guild strike against AMPTP, and who knew he would be engaged in it longer than it would have taken him to shoot a picture.

We’ve reached Labor Day and the close of this endless summer labor dispute that has stretched 18 weeks with no end in sight — many who had pegged Labor Day as the likely resolution now point to Thanksgiving. Deadline Strike Talk host Billy Ray engages Jennifer Fox, producer of such films as Michael Clayton, Nightcrawler, The Last Duel, and the Sundance sensation Magazine Dreams. They dig into the current labor stalemate and how AMPTP might find common ground with WGA and SAG-AFTRA. And they also engage the plight of the producers who assemble projects from inception, don’t get paid until production stars, and are the first to be asked to take a haircut on their fees. Producers don’t need an alliance. What they need is a union, Ray and Fox argue.

Billy Ray Cyrus and fiancée Firerose are opening up about their relationship.

Trace Cyrus has some beef with his family!

Miley Cyrus took fans through a day of her life at the very start of her Disney Channel days, and it’ll leave you in awe.

Miley Cyrus is speaking out about why touring isn’t “healthy” for her.

viewers have always known that Miley Cyrus and her dad Billy Ray Cyrus have a special bond, but seeing Cyrus (Miley, that is) reflect on it as an adult is sweet in a whole new way.“My dad grew up the opposite of me. I think that’s where me and my dad’s relationship to fame and success is wildly different. Him feeling loved by a big audience impacted him emotionally more than it ever could me.

Miley Cyrus is opening up about her childhood and how she differed from her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, growing up. In her ABC special,, Miley reflected on her past, from her birth in 1992 until the present day. «When I was born, my dad had the no.

Miley Cyrus is opening up about her childhood and how she differed from her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, growing up. In a new TikTok series inspired by her latest single, «Used to Be Young,» Miley is reflecting on her past, from her birth in 1992 until the present day. «When I was born, my dad had the no.

Adele is giving Miley Cyrus her “Flowers”, after the release of her latest track. 

Though Miley Cyrus and her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, have both paved famous music careers, their individual relationships to fame and success are “wildly different”, and the reason why makes Miley “emotional.”

Miley Cyrus is reflecting on her dad Billy Ray Cyrus‘ career.

As the strike in Hollywood reaches Week 17, Deadline Strike Talk podcast host Billy Ray continues his push to find ways for AMPTP to come to terms with WGA and SAG-AFTRA. This after a week when hopes things were finally moving got dashed when WGA leadership slammed the latest AMPTP offer, and the signatories disclosed the actual offer publicly. This went against a news blackout and left finger pointing that AMPTP was trying to usurp WGA leadership being the filter to its members on progress of negotiations, to rile the rank and file. On Strike Talk, the emphasis is for enemies finding common ground. This week, Ray parses the path to a deal with former head of the AFL-CIO Michael Podhorzer and Paul W. Fleming, who is the General Secretary of British Equity. They discuss the state of labor globally, and how workers – in America and abroad – are finally reclaiming their power… to the betterment the global work force.

Miley Cyrus dedicated her new song to the late Sinéad O'Connor after the Irish singer's open letter to the former Disney actress went viral following her death.

Billy Ray Cyrus and Firerose made their red carpet debut as a couple!On Wednesday, the musical duo — who got engaged in 2022 — walked their first red carpet together at the 16th annual Academy of Country Music Honors (ACM) in Nashville, Tennessee. For the outing, Billy Ray rocked a straw cowboy hat and a black denim jacket that he wore with black pants and a relaxed black shirt.For her part, Firerose coordinated in black distressed jeans and a black shirt. Adding her own flare, the Aussie songstress wore a bedazzled jacket and black cowgirl hat, completing the outfit with a pair of cowgirl boots.

Billy Ray Cyrus and his fiancée, Firerose, have made their red carpet debut.

Billy Ray Cyrus is hitting the red carpet with his fiancée Firerose for the very first time.

Miley Cyrus has found herself in the middle of a family feud following her parents' bitter divorce. Her mother, Tish Cyrus, split from her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, in April 2022, leading to a rift among their children as they swiftly took differing sides. Tish recently married Prison Break actor Dominic Purcell, with Miley serving as the maid of honour and her siblings Brandi and Trace also attending.

Despite speculation about possible bad blood in the Cyrus family, Tish Cyrus‘ children weren’t shading her by not being at her wedding.

Tish Cyrus' children weren't shading her by not being at her wedding.Tish tied the knot with star Dominic Purcell in an intimate ceremony in Malibu, California, on Saturday. However, not all of her children were in attendance to lend their support — namely, 23-year-old daughter Noah Cyrus and 29-year-old son, Braison Cyrus.In fact, Braison and Noah shared snapshots to their Instagram Stories showing they spent the weekend hanging out together, and going to Walmart, thus sparking social media chatter and fanning the flames of feud rumors.However, a source tells ET, «There is no family drama between Tish, Noah and Braison.»«They are all supportive of Tish, but they are all doing their own things both career-wise and travel-wise, and it just didn’t work out for Noah and Braison to attend Tish’s wedding,» the source says.While her siblings were not on hand at the event, Miley Cyrus was there and served as her mom's maid of honor.«Miley just wants to be there for her mom and wants her to be happy,» the source says.

Tish Cyrus got married to actor Dominic Purcell over the weekend, but only three of her five kids were in attendance at the wedding.

Miley Cyrus celebrated her mom’s wedding over the weekend during an intimate ceremony in Malibu, California. Tish Cyrus tied the knot with ‘Prison Break’ actor Dominic Purcell, wearing a stunning strapless gown in white featuring a lace overlay, while the groom wore a white button up paired with black pants.The 30-year-old singer serves as Maid of Honor, standing next to her mom and celebrating her special day, wearing a one-shoulder baby blue dress. The celebrity family was photographed by paparazzi during the private event, which took place poolside at their residence, with white rose petals scattered around, adorning the backyard of the lavish mansion.Miley can be seen holding white flowers during the ceremony, and was later photographed having casual conversations with the attendees.

Big-time wedding drama for Tish Cyrus!

In his 16th weekly installment of the Deadline Strike Talk Podcast, Billy Ray continues to explore ways that the shifting sands of the entertainment business can settle in a manner that pleases shareholders of the corporations paying for content, and the talent responsible for creating it with the traditional understanding they share in the upside of success. Joining him are two titan producers who make films and TV on independent and blockbuster levels. Gale Anne Hurd’s credits range from the universes of The Walking Dead and Terminator, and many others. Glen Basner’s FilmNation has been a cornerstone catalyst of independent and studio films and TV. Also, Billy Ray has decided that the word “producer’ no longer belongs in the AMPTP, because these cohorts in content creation are not the ones he and other writers and actors are striking against. He explains why, from now forward, the collection of signatories should be called something else.

In the 15th installment of Deadline’s Strike Talk, the boys have put the band back together. Todd Garner, who launched the podcast with Billy Ray and then had to bow out to produce a film in Australia, returns after the SAG-AFTRA strike shut down production on his film.

Last week Billy Ray frightened everyone with the disruptive potential of AI by interviewing the technology and having it respond in the familiar voices of some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. In his Week 14 outing, Ray pivots. On a day when the WGA and AMPTP plan to return to the bargaining table just short of the 100 days it took to settle the last strike, Ray explores ways that both sides can find common ground in a future that nurtures an ecosystem that will perpetuate and reward creative growth, leading to a renaissance that will be profitable for all. He’s got a killer panel to parse the issue, three guests who have had outsized success in their domains: The Matrix series co-director Lilly Wachowski, The Last of Us and Chernobyl’s Craig Mazin, and Blumhouse principal Jason Blum, whose trajectory came from an inventive formula that involves transparency, and artists who bet on themselves and share mightily in success. It’s an electric exchange of ideas to heal the rifts between artists and commerce-minded studios, one that might have then rowing in the same directing, toward better and more imaginative film and TV.

Billy Ray is back for the 13th installment of Deadline Strike Talk, the weekly podcast that began at the start of the Writers Guild strike against AMPTP. With writers and actors petrified at the job cutting and ecosystem-destroying potential of AI, Ray re-engages the technology in conversation, as he did in his week seven podcast. But this time, with a new twist.

The 11th installment of Deadline Strike Talk with Billy Ray lands at the close of another seismic week in the Hollywood labor battle.

As the Writers Guild-AMTPT standoff hits double digits, Deadline’s Strike Talk podcast host Billy Ray focuses on a topic as important as his masterful recent conversation with AI. Writers rooms are the pipelines of talent that turn rookies into showrunners, the ones that make billions for studios and networks with hit shows.

Deadline’s Strike Talk podcast is now in its ninth week, coming at a critical day with the expiration of the SAG-AFTRA contract. Deadline has revealed a high likelihood that the union agrees to kick the can down the road and beyond the holidays, but the tension is growing after more than 1000 major actors signed a solidarity letter that they are serious and will go on strike. That development would put every part of Hollywood in a deep sleep, because there will be no one to make projects, or promote the ones that are done. The Emmys also are threatened.

Deadline’s Strike Talk podcast is now at Week 8, as we complete a stretch in which the standoff between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers passed the 50-day mark, halfway to the 100-day dispute that decimated Hollywood in 2007 and the 253-day dispute of 1988.

Billy Ray is back for the sixth installment of Strike Talk, a podcast that began with the start of the Writers Guild standoff. Falling on the 50th day of the strike, this episode is groundbreaking, in a Stanley Kubrick 2001: A Space Odyssey‘s HAL meets James Cameron’s The Terminator kind of way. As he will explain in the podcast, Ray was able to make it so that he could have a back and forth verbal conversation with the AI that is a major bone of contention for the WGA in its dispute with AMPTP signatories. While the voice of AI seems amiable enough, it makes clear that as its technology and learning abilities become more sophisticated, fears that it could be used to lessen the number of writers coming up in the creative ecosystem by the use of cost-effective technology is validated in technicolor. Below-the-liners, writers and actors and even studio heads are expendable. Ray, who wrote the classic ‘I am the captain now’ line in Captain Phillips, unveils a new and potentially scarier skipper here, one that might give studio chiefs pause to consider what they’re unleashing to save a few bucks. Click below to listen.

Billy Ray and Todd Garner are back for Week 6 of the Writers Guild standoff on Deadline’s Strike Talk podcast. Click below to listen.