SAG-AFTRA Orders Members Not To Work On ‘Songbird’, One Of The First Films To Shoot In LA During Pandemic

including Time’s Up and the SAG-AFTRA Los Angeles local board which voted 29-13 against recommending the contract — say that it needs stricter language on who is allowed on set and greater protections for background actors involved in nude scenes.Also Read: Time's Up Urges SAG-AFTRA Members to Vote Against Proposed Studio Contract“While we support TIME’S UP for their unique contributions to a cause in which we all believe, we completely disagree with their assumption that they have either the

Dave McNary Film ReporterThe SAG-AFTRA national board has reprimanded Los Angeles president Patricia Richardson over her refusal to remove actor Corey Feldman, who has been accused of sexual assault, from guild’s Los Angeles local sexual harassment committee.Feldman has issued a strong denial of the allegations.

David Robb Labor EditorThe national board of SAG-AFTRA on Monday reprimanded Los Angeles Local president Patricia Richardson for refusing to remove a member of the local’s Sexual Harassment Committee, even though the board says she had received “detailed complaints from women who had been subject to or witness to sexual harassment, abuse and assault” by the committee member.The board resolution does not identify the committee member, but Deadline has learned from multiple sources that it’s actor

After fifteen years of marriage, Joey Lawrence and his wife, Chandie, have officially split. TMZ has learned that Joey went to the Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday to file the official divorce papers.

Joey Lawrence and his wife Chandie are separating after nearly 15 years of marriage. The “Blossom” star filed for divorce at the Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday, according to TMZ.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorAt his Friday news conference, California Governor Gavin Newsom ordered counties on the state’s coronavirus watch list to shut down school campuses this fall, at least to begin the school year. The 30 counties on the list — which include Los Angeles and most of Southern California — must switch to virtual instruction only.

Newsom's announcement comes as California reported 8,460 new cases of COVID-19, according to July 11 data from the state's health department. The state now has a total of 320,804 positive cases.

Naya Rivera’s ex-husband, Ryan Dorsey, has reunited with his son – four-year-old Josey – after Rivera went missing on a boating trip in California’s Lake Piru. Cameras spotted Dorsey for the first time in Los Angeles on Thursday, July 9, with Josey, as authorities continue to search for the Glee star’s body.

Naya Rivera’s ex-husband, Ryan Dorsey, was spotted for the first time in Los Angeles on Thursday, July 9, with their son, Josey, one day after the Glee star went missing at Ventura County’s Lake Piru.The West Virginia native, 36, held the pair’s 4-year-old in his arms, in photos obtained by the Daily Mail on Thursday, as the two left Rivera’s sister, Nickayla Rivera’s L.A.

Glee star Naya Rivera has been reported as missing after her four-year-old son Josey Dorsey was found alone on a pontoon boat they rented to go swimming in Lake Piru in Ventura County, California. Hours after a search and rescue operation began, Robert Kovacik of NBC Los Angeles tweeted at 9:55 AM PST that Rivera was "presumed dead" according to the Ventura County Sheriff's Department.

Glee star Naya Rivera is missing after her 4-year-old son was found alone on a boat Wednesday evening in Lake Piru in Ventura County, California. Ventura County Sheriff's Department Capt.

This is just devastating news. Rescuers in Ventura County, CA are searching for former Glee star Naya Rivera after she rented a boat around 1pm on July 7 to take out on Lake Piru, northwest of Los Angeles. She was accompanied by her four-year-old son Josey Hollis Dorsey. CBS2 News Los Angeles confirmed that, “According to the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department, Rivera rented the boat at about 1 p.m. About three hours later, another boater found the child in the boat by himself.”

The board of SAG-AFTRA’s largest local on Tuesday voted 69 percent to 31 percent against the new TV/theatrical deal approved by the national board, The Hollywood Reporter has learned, in a videoconference meeting that resulted in a symbolic show of force signaling tumultuous times ahead for entertainment’s largest union. The 29 to 13 non-binding vote by the Los Angeles board was “essentially along party lines” one board member said, speaking on condition on anonymity.

David Robb Labor EditorPatricia Richardson, president of the SAG-AFTRA Los Angeles Local, urged the guild’s members today to vote no on the union’s new film and TV contract. “The deal isn’t good enough, and now is the time to fix it,” she said during a Zoom press conference with other leaders of the opposition, which includes the local’s two vice presidents – Frances Fisher and David Jolliffe – and A.

Dave McNary Film ReporterSAG-AFTRA’s Los Angeles board has voted to oppose ratification of a successor deal on its master contract for feature films and primetime television work.The move came Tuesday, two weeks after the national board of the performers union had approved sending out the contract for ratification by a vote of 67.6% to 32.4%.

David Robb Labor EditorThe board of directors SAG-AFTRA’s Los Angeles Local voted overwhelmingly Tuesday – strictly along the guild’s fractious party lines – to oppose ratification of the union’s new film and TV contract. The local is the union’s largest, representing just over 50% of the entire membership.Local board members voted 29-13 (69%-31%) to oppose ratification, almost exactly the reverse of the national board, which late last month voted 67.6%-32.4% to approve the contract.

SAG-AFTRA has given a greenlight for production on 7th & Union, a LatinX drama toplined by Mexican comedy star Omar Chaparro and Edy Ganem, and to start in Los Angeles on Monday. The feature from newly launched Broken English Productions has Chaparro playing Raymundo, a Mexican ex-fighter who forms an unlikely bond with a disgruntled man (Gregg Daniel), whose life and relationship with his daughter, played by Erinn Westbrook, are unraveling.

Dave McNary Film ReporterSAG-AFTRA has told told its members to refuse work on the pandemic thriller “Songbird,” produced by Michael Bay.“Songbird” had been announced in mid-May as a low-budget production that would shoot in Los Angeles. The performers union announced the “do not work” order on Thursday for production company On A Lark Productions LLC. It said the company had failed to complete the signatory process and is therefore not signed to any applicable SAG-AFTRA agreement.