SAG-AFTRA Rescinds ‘Do Not Work’ Order on Pandemic Thriller ‘Songbird’

approved by its members Wednesday night, saying that “there is more work to be done to ensure safety on sets and across the industry.”Time’s Up shockingly asked SAG-AFTRA members to vote “no” on the contract, saying that the agreement did not go far enough in providing protections for actors performing nudity or simulated sex.“The newly ratified 2020 SAG-AFTRA TV/Theatrical Agreement only reinforces what we already knew to be true – there is more work to be done to ensure safety on sets and

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

David Robb Labor EditorSAG-AFTRA members are speaking out about hate crimes and discrimination against Asian-Americans, many of whom have been targeted by their fellow citizens during the coronavirus pandemic.

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

David Robb Labor EditorUPDATE: Macbeth has gotten the greenlight from SAG-AFTRA to resume production. The union says it rescinded the Do Not Work order it issued today after the producers had “come forward with a safety plan that is in compliance.”The guild has also taken Retaliator off its Do Not Work list.

David Robb Labor EditorSAG-AFTRA has told its members that they can’t work on two more films because their producers have “failed to comply with SAG-AFTRA’s required COVID-19 safety standards and protocols for a safe set.” One of the films is Macbeth, an adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy by Toil and Trouble Productions LLC; the other is Retaliator, from a company called Retaliators LLC.“As such,” the union said in identical “Do Not Work” notices, “SAG-AFTRA members are hereby instructed to

Two more stars have been added to the cast of Michael Bay‘s pandemic movie, Songbird.

Also Read: KJ Apa Admits 'Riverdale' Cast Did a 'Terrible Job of Keeping' Jughead's Fake Death a Secret (Video)“Songbird” is directed by Adam Mason (“Into the Dark”) and is being self-financed by Invisible Narratives, which is led by former Paramount production chief Adam Goodman and former Disney exec Andrew Sugerman.Bay is producing, as is Goodman for his Invisible Narratives production banner along with Eben Davidson.

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

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.

Get Out star Bradley Whitford and Jane the Virgin actress Jenna Ortega have joined the pandemic thriller Songbird.

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.

Ted Johnson Hollywood talent agencies, law firms and production companies were among the recipients of loans under the Paycheck Protection Program, the massive program put in place by Congress to try to carry businesses and their employees through the COVID-19 crisis.Among the recipients of seven-figure loans were talent agencies Agency for the Performing Arts and The Gersh Agency,  as well as law firms including Glaser, Weil and Greenberg, Glusker, and accounting firm Green Hasson Janks.The

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.

Michael Bay’s pandemic-themed thriller “Songbird” has been hit with a do not work notice.