WGA Pickets Come To D.C.: Members & Supporters Demonstrate At Disney/Marvel’s ‘Captain America’ Shoot

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously today to approve a resolution in support of the Writers Guild’s ongoing strike and urged the studios “to come to the bargaining table and reach a fair deal with the workers of the WGA.” The strike is now in its 60th day.

The Writers Guild of America strike continued Thursday with a demonstration at Netflix headquarters in Los Angeles that featured appearances by Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, as well as a slew of Dolly Parton drag queens on the picket lines.

Tara Karajica Evia Film Project, Thessaloniki Film Festival’s green initiative forged in the aftermath of the calamitous wildfires on the Greek island of Evia in 2021, focused primarily on location scouting this year. “It was the most important action of this project because it’s about the future and this is the most important thing. How can we leave a trace here? And a trace will be a movie, a TV series, a documentary…,” says Thessaloniki Film Festival topper Orestis Andreadakis. Two Fam Trips – familiarization tours of locations – a town walk and a masterclass were organized for the location scouts and managers, and other film professionals attending the event. The Fam Trips aimed to give prominence to the physiognomy of Northern Evia and highlight locations in the municipalities of Istiea Edipsos and Mantoudi-Limni-Agia Anna, while the walk around the town of Loutra Edipsos showcased empty buildings, beaches, thermal baths and other hidden treasures.

Alex Edelman has made his Broadway debut!

It was musical Monday for WGA picketers on day 56 of the Writers Guild strike, with Death Row Records representing in front of Sunset Bronson Studios, site of one of Netflix’s many Los Angeles-based offices.

Goldberg said, “So, you know how we’re always talking about how we’re very different than most other shows? Well, as you know, there is a writer’s strike on, and so we don’t have writers. So you’re gonna hear how it would be when it’s not, you know, slicked up.”Later in that episode, Goldberg added, “We hope you weren’t too freaked out about the fact that we have no writers,” Whoopi said.

shut down by WGA picketing earlier this month before being placed on an indefinite pause. Other series that have been halted on the East Coast include Disney+’s “Daredevil: Born Again” and Max’s “The Penguin.” In Montana, the “Yellowstone” prequel “1923” was also put on hold until the strike ends.

Spike Lee was not on the speakers list at a rally Thursday morning for striking film and television writers outside City Hall in New York. But one of the Brooklyn-born filmmaker’s best-loved movies, 1989’s Do the Right Thing, kept cropping up as local elected officials took turns calling for studio executives to resume negotiations with the Writers Guild of America and help end a strike now in its eighth week.

a shooting took place at a campground near to the Washington EDM festival, resulting in two deaths.The festival was being held at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington when police were alerted to an “active shooter” in the nearby campground on Saturday, where many festival attendees were due to stay, while artists were performing at the festival.A police conference later in the evening reported that officers had “pursued (and) closed-in on the suspect” but they continued to “fire randomly into the crowd” before being apprehended (via Variety).Now, local news outlet ABC7 reports that the suspect has been confirmed as 26-year-old James M. Kelly, an active member of the US Army based at Joint Base Lewis McCord in Washington state.Kelly is being held on two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of first-degree assault and one count of first-degree assault domestic violence.After the festival, Insomniac Events founder and CEO Pasquale Rotella issued a statement following the tragic events.“On behalf of the entire Insomniac family, we extend our heartfelt thoughts and condolences to the family, friends and loved ones of the victims.

Ryan Murphy is responding allegations.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter As WGA pickets continue to mobilize at the remaining TV shows in both New York and Los Angeles, at least one Ryan Murphy-produced show was the focus of striking writers’ efforts on Wednesday: “American Horror Story: Delicate.” The show is currently shooting on 52nd street in Manhattan, according to several WGA East member Twitter feeds — including one person who posted video of star Kim Kardashian entering the production. “It doesn’t appear that @KimKardashian is a friend of the labor movement. She just now crossed our picket line to work on Ryan Murphy’s @AHSFX Hamptons, shooting here on 52nd in NYC,” wrote “The Blacklist” exec producer and WGA strike captain T Cooper on his Twitter account.

buy his plush California mansion.Speaking to The Wall Street Journal, the actor, 76, said the 16-time Grammy winner signed on the dotted line for the luxe $58 million estate after Stallone complied with her request to leave the poolside statue of the fictional boxer — despite his initial intention to take it.“She said, ‘That’s a no deal. That’s gonna blow the whole deal,'” he recalled.

Editor’s note: Part 2 of two-part series about the writers strike crossing the 50-day mark.

Scott Disick has prioritized staying on good terms with Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker — which includes reaching out to the couple amid their pregnancy news.

The Kar-Jenner family members sweetly reacted to Kourtney Kardashian’s pregnancy news.

UPDATED, Day 46: After visiting many, many picket lines over the last month, we’ve learned that lots of pickets signs are reused for conservation purposes. And to that we say — screw the recycling. Bring on more of those sweet corporate burns!

For the second week in a row, no scripted TV series were shooting on location in Los Angeles due to the Writers Guild strike, according to data compiled by FilmLA, the city and county film permit office.

Daredevil: Born Again and The Penguin finally have thrown in the towel: Deadline has learned that the Disney+ series and the Max drama will remain on pause until the end of the WGA Strike — whenever that may be.

The head of the country’s largest labor union joined striking Writers Guild film and television writers at a rally on Monday outside the New York City offices of streaming giant Amazon and said the writers’ cause has the support of workers from across unionized labor. 

EXCLUSIVE: Filming on Disney+’s Daredevil: Born Again has been shut down for today, sources tell Deadline. The new season of the Marvel series was supposed to shoot at its New York home base of Silvercup East, which has been a main picketing location for striking WGA members.