WGA Details Gains & Losses in New Film & TV Contract

Tenet has now been removed from Warner Bros’ calendar.The anticipated sci-fi, which stars John David Washington and Robert Pattinson, was slated to hit cinemas worldwide on August 12 having already been moved back twice amid the coronavirus pandemic.However, the studio has now confirmed it has been delayed indefinitely although it plans to share a new release date “imminently”.“We will share a new 2020 release date imminently for Tenet, Christopher Nolan’s wholly original and mind-blowing

those James Bond rumours.Now the Maynooth actor has teased a new major film project.Could Paul be set to make a major movie once lockdown restrictions are lifted?In a new interview with Closer Magazine, as reported by RTÉ, Paul has revealed that he could be ready for the big screen.‘I kind of half know, although I’m definitely not allowed to say, but hopefully at the end of the summer I’ll be going and working with people that I absolutely adore and have adored for quite a number of years.‘I’ll

David Robb Labor EditorEXCLUSIVE: The WGA has wrapped up successful negotiations on two fronts in the past few weeks, getting UTA to break ranks with the other Big Four agencies by signing the guild’s franchise agreement and hammering out a new three-year film and TV contract with management’s AMPTP. And WGA West president David A.

Joanna Gaines can add another book to her ever-growing list of accomplishments. The HGTV-star-turned-lifestyle-guru took to Instagram on Tuesday to announce her upcoming children's book, "The World Needs Who You Were Meant to Be." Per the post, the book is expected in November and is illustrated by Julianna Swaney.

Jumanji: The Next Level , Little Women, Bad Boys for Life and Peter Rabbit 2 . The arrangement between the two parties also extends across other Sky services, including the Sky Store, Sky X and NOW TV Cinema and Entertainment.

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.

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.

Mission: Impossible actor playing a surprising role.Speaking to Empire, the Mission: Impossible and Jack Reacher director said the pair have plans for a film in which Cruise plays a very “un-Tom character.”He said: “It’s a very un-Tom character, and we have plans for an even more un-Tom character that we’ve been talking about, which I’m hopeful about in the future.”He also revealed that originally, the pair had plans to make a R-rated Jack Reacher franchise.He continued: “Tom and I were talking

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticWriters Guild of America leaders have endorsed the union’s tentative deal negotiated this week with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.

David Robb Labor EditorRatification ballots are in the mail for the new SAG-AFTRA contract, with pro and con statements from opponents and proponents. Opponents have issued a minority report urging members to vote no, saying that the deal “enshrines historic losses and missed opportunities.” Proponents, saying that this is the best deal in the union’s history, are urging a “yes” vote.

David Robb Labor EditorSAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris is urging the members to vote yes to ratify the union’s new film and TV contract, saying in a video message to her members today that the pact “is the most lucrative deal we have ever negotiated. It’s valued at $318 million over the three year term of the contract.

Mission: Impossible 7.That’s according to Pegg, who revealed in a new NME interview that his character in the franchise, Benji Dunn, will be spotlighted more in the next instalment alongside Ving Rhames who plays Luther Strickell.“I know the basic story of the two movies and it’s going to be a lot of fun,” Pegg said in the interview.

I’m Thinking Of Ending Things, a new film by Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind writer Charlie Kaufman, lands on Netflix this year.The film is an adaptation of the 2016 Iain Reid novel of the same name.

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

EW that director James D’Arcy got a hold of his UK agent and he didnt take much convincing to take on the role.He said: ‘James D’Arcy got in touch with me through my English agent and she said “Listen, I think you should read this, there’s something to it.”‘I did and I sort of fell in love with it, and she said, “Maybe this is something good for you and Micheál, your son.”‘And so it was kind of fate, I just felt like I had to do it.’The story depicts an estranged father and son who travel to

David Robb Labor EditorSAG-AFTRA’s national board tonight approved the union’s tentative new three-year film and TV contract by a vote of 67.6% to 32.4%. The union says the new pact with management’s AMPTP will boost members’ incomes by $318 million over three years, including a 26% gain in streaming residuals, and wage increases of 2.5% in the first year and 3% in each of the second and third years.