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David Robb Labor EditorOscar-nominated screenwriter and The Comey Rule writer-director Billy Ray is urging WGA West members to mobilize through the guild’s political action committee to “rid the Senate” of GOP incumbents Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in next month’s dual runoff races in Georgia.Loeffler and Perdue “are fairly loathsome,” he said today in a mass email to the guild’s members.

SAG-AFTRA Foundation president Courtney B. Vance on Monday updated members about the organization’s Emergency Assistance Program, its charity funded by donations.

David Robb Labor EditorA federal judge has denied the WGA’s request for an eight-week continuance of a hearing date on CAA’s and WME’s motions for a preliminary injunction that would force the guild to drop its group boycott against the agencies.“We are gratified that the court denied the WGA’s request to delay the preliminary injunction hearing, and adopted the briefing schedule we and WME had proposed,” said Richard Kendall, CAA’s lead counsel on the case.

David Robb Labor EditorFamed casting directors Robi Reed and Tara Rubin will be honored along with The Actors Fund at the Casting Society of America’s 36th annual Artios Awards, which will be held virtually on April 15, 2021. Reed and Rubin will receive the Hoyt Bowers Award, given for excellence in casting and honoring their body of work and outstanding contributions to the casting profession.

David Robb Labor EditorWME partner Rick Rosen claims in court documents filed Wednesday that WGA West executive director David Young “repeatedly threatened to ‘kill’ me” during a heated phone conversation in August, as the guild and the agency were trying to work out a deal to end their ongoing legal standoff.Rosen said that he was so alarmed by the alleged threat that he called WGA West president David A. Goodman to complain about it, but didn’t get a satisfactory response.

Nellie Andreeva, David Robb EXCLUSIVE: NBCUniversal’s sophomore syndicated talker The Kelly Clarkson Show is the latest TV series to see positive COVID-19 tests with the country in the grips of a third wave of infections.I hear individuals on The Kelly Clarkson Show production team received positive results when tested as part of the show’s COVID safety protocols.

Nellie Andreeva, David Robb EXCLUSIVE: Filming on NBC’s Days of Our Lives has been shut down for the next two weeks after a production team member tested positive for COVID-19. The cast, crew and staff of the daytime drama were just notified of the temporary shutdown in an email from Corday Productions, which co-produces with Sony Pictures TV.

David Robb Labor EditorSAG-AFTRA is protesting Saturday’s arrest of KPCC reporter Josie Huang while she was covering the arrest of a protester outside St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood, where two LA County Sheriff’s deputies were being treated after being shot in their squad car by an as yet unidentified assailant.

David Robb, Erik Pedersen As Hurricane Laura nears landfall as a massive Category 4 storm, some 1.5 million people in the Gulf Coast region are under evacuation orders ahead of what federal officials are describing as an “unsurvivable storm surge.”Today co-anchor and weatherman Al Roker said on MSNBC this morning, “I’ve never seen that phrase coming from the National Hurricane Center.” He added that “entire neighborhoods could be wiped out.”The National Hurricane Center said that Laura is

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Aug. 23-29 Aug. 23: Actor Vera Miles is 90.

David Robb Labor EditorTwo members of the SAG-AFTRA negotiating committee that bargained for the union’s recently ratified film and TV contract said tonight that they had not been told during the talks of the severity of the problems facing the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan.The plan’s restructuring is projected to remove some 3,500 participants and 3,200 family members from coverage come Jan.

David Robb Labor EditorA federal judge has denied WME’s and CAA’s motions to dismiss the remainder of the WGA’s fraud and price-fixing allegations, sending the case to trial to determine whether agency packaging fees are legal.In his 17-page ruling today (read it here), U.S. District Court Judge Andre Birotte Jr.

David Robb Labor EditorIATSE international president Matt Loeb today called on the Senate to scrap the Republican-backed HEALS Act and instead pass the House Democrats’ HEROES Act.The Dems’ bill would extend the $600 weekly federal unemployment benefit through the end of the year for those left out of work by the pandemic, while the GOP bill would slash those payments to just $200 a week.The union, which has said that 90%-95% of its 150,000 members were left jobless by the pandemic, called the

David Robb Labor EditorWGA West members earned a record $1.68 billion under the guild’s film and TV contracts for the fiscal year ended March 31 – up 3.1% from the previous year, according to the guild’s latest annual report (read it here). In total, more than 6,300 writers reported employment in all work areas during the year.Screenwriter earnings dipped 0.7% to $493.1 million, though the guild said that this figure is likely to increase with late reporting.

David Robb, Nellie Andreeva Now that UTA has signed the WGA’s franchise agreement after lengthy negotiations, speculation is mounting over which of the other Big Four agencies – WME, CAA or ICM Partners – will be the next to sign.Sources tell Deadline that WGA West president David A.

David Robb Labor EditorSAG-AFTRA has issued a “Do Not Work” order for producer Jonathan Lopez’s series Ocean Rescue, saying that his company “is not signatory to any SAG-AFTRA agreement and has not executed a minimum basic agreement with SAG-AFTRA that is in full force and effect.”Many of these Do Not Work orders are resolved when the producers sign the union’s contract, as was the case recently with SAG-AFTRA rescinding its order on Michael Bay’s Songbird.Until then, however, the union said

David Robb, Dominic Patten After long and hard negotiations conducted remotely, the WGA and the AMPTP have secured a tentative overall deal that brings much-desired labor stability to an industry already hobbled by the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic.After a last-ditch marathon bargaining session that stretched into the early hours Wednesday, the sides — which by all accounts had a fairly no-drama negotiation for the past several weeks — secured an agreement to take to the guild’s

David Robb, Erik Pedersen The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today sided with a lower court’s ruling that a California law barring websites like IMDbPro from disclosing actors’ ages is unconstitutional.

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