WGA West Wants This Election Day To Be A Paid Holiday

Advisor to the president Ivanka Trump visited Wisconsin ahead of a visit to Georgia on Tuesday for campaign events three weeks before the 2020 presidential election. The first daughter stopped at a pipe manufacturing plant in Kaukauna, Wis., Tuesday morning before traveling to Hilbert to answer questions from supporters.

Carib women over to members of his crew to be raped; openly boasted about how easy it would be to enslave the Carib people; personally enslaved more than a thousand people; forced natives to mine gold or face execution; and perhaps most horrific of all, he literally sold children as young as 9 years old into sexual slavery.

David Robb Labor EditorThe WGA West’s political action committee has endorsed Joe Biden for president and Kamala Harris for vice president. The guild’s PAC joins entertainment industry unions IATSE, the American Federation of Musicians, and Actors’ Equity in endorsing the Democratic challengers to President Donald Trump and VP Mike Pence.The WGA West PAC is also supporting the re-election of seven incumbent Democratic U.S.

Kanye West has reached out to Joe Rogan to ask if he can appear as a guest on his popular Spotify podcast.Last year, the rapper/producer announced that he was going to guest on The Joe Rogan Experience, but the episode never materialised.“Spoke with Joe Rogan,” West tweeted.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Sunday said her state will not rush to ensure all the results of the 2020 presidential race are counted on Election Day, Nov.

A federal appeals court in Wisconsin overruled a lower court's decision to extend the deadline for counting absentee ballots by six days, doling out a win to the state's GOP-led Legislature, which fought hard against the rule change. Sparring over an extended deadline for counting mail-in ballots has been ongoing, with Democrats arguing that an additional week is essential to ensure all absentee ballots are counted in what will likely be a highly competitive presidential election.

Twitter on Friday introduced a number of new rules the social media platform is rolling out for the upcoming election. In what is perhaps the most interesting of the changes, Twitter will not allow Donald Trump nor Joe Biden to declare a victory without official double verification.

Twitter is implementing new rules.

Clayton Davis Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars from Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis. Following Academy Awards history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Oscar predictions are updated regularly with the current year's contenders in all categories.

Bradley Cooper appeared in an informational video to help people in his native state of Pennsylvania prepare to vote in the upcoming election. The actor, who grew up in the battleground state, joined forces with Now This News for a video in which he urges residents of the state to take the easy steps to register to vote and complete a ballot for the Nov.

David Robb Labor EditorSaying that the entertainment industry is — and long has been — “operating in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act,” Catherine Clinch, chair of the WGA West’s Career Longevity Committee, has penned a scathing open letter to the industry on behalf of her committee demanding “inclusion and equity” for older writers.“It is a violation of Federal law to discriminate against anyone on the basis of age.

VERY NICE" ever: Sacha Baron Cohen covertly made a sequel to Borat, his 2006 comedy film, and it will be released on Amazon Prime in late October, Deadline reports. According to Deadline, the Borat sequel was the first movie made during the COVID-19 pandemic, and began shooting as soon as restrictions were lifted, with a small, union-approved crew getting to work the day after they were cleared.

Well, the rumors are true and legit—though still no word on the oversized title. “Borat 2,” which was shot in secret— and fast—this year by Sacha Baron Cohen is done and not only that, already has a distributor.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has acquired worldwide rights to the sequel of the 2006 film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. The film, which stars Sacha Baron Cohen in the title role once again, was the first movie made during the COVID-19 shutdown, shot surreptitiously as quickly as coronavirus shooting restrictions were eased, and unions were in agreement on a return to shooting.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorFormer Georgia gubernatorial candidate and voter activist Stacey Abrams doesn’t want to see what happened in 2018 happen again in 2020.Abrams lost the Georgia election to Brian Kemp amid widespread accusations that Kemp’s campaign had engaged in voter suppression.

David Robb Labor EditorMichael Schur, creator of The Good Place and Parks and Recreation, is urging his fellow writers to donate to the WGA West’s political action committee to help “flip the Senate and bring in bold leaders who will check the power of the Supreme Court.”“You undoubtedly already know how far Mitch McConnell and the party of Trump will go to enshrine their far-right agenda,” he said in a message sent out today to the guild’s members.

Axios, Google said advertisers will be blocked from running ads “referencing candidates, the election, or its outcome, given that an unprecedented amount of votes will be counted after election day this year.”The ad suspensions will also apply to other Google platforms with ads, which includes YouTube.

Kanye West announces he wants to help future musicians as well as producers, now that the controversial rapper posted a manifesto that would give “fair play” to the music industry, as one of his attempts to be released and seek freedom against executives at Sony and Universal, buying back his masters and possibly change the restrictive contract in which he is involved.The 43-year-old singer turned entrepreneur shared on Twitter about the possibility of helping artists that are in the same

The Writers Guild of America West announced on Monday the results of its 2020 Board of Directors Election, with seven of the race’s eight incumbents being re-elected.The 2020 Board members are Betsy Thomas, Deric A. Hughes, Ashley Gable, Patti Carr, David Slack, Travis Donnelly, Patric M.