Writers Guild West Unveils Board of Directors Election Results

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentLess than two months after Beirut was blasted by one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions ever recorded, director Nadine Labaki has taken to the streets of the Lebanese capital with her camera. “I don’t know where it’s going to lead, or if it will ever lead anywhere,” says Labaki, whose latest film, the Oscar-nominated “Capernaum,” shed light on Beirut’s preexisting desperation.

Adele has reportedly splashed out £16,000 on a gold chain for her “almost boyfriend” Skepta.The Hello singer, 32, is said to have treated the rapper, who turned 38 last month, after going on a string of dates with him. Adele and Skepta are “not official”, friends of the pair claim, but their romance is said to have stepped up a gear.

Dino-Ray Ramos editorThe Black List is partnering with the Writers Guild Initiative (WGI) and the King Family Foundation for the annual Michael Collyer Memorial Fellowship in Screenwriting. This marks the 13th year for the fellowship and the fifth year being hosted on blcklst.com.

In an effort to break a standoff with WME and CAA, the Writers Guild of America is asking the major agencies to disclose their ownership structures as part of talks aimed at allowing the firms to represent scribes for the first time since April 2019. The talent firms have been at odds with the Writers Guild over its call for the agencies to own no more than a 20 percent stake in their affiliate production companies.

Dave McNary Film ReporterLeaders of the Writers Guild of America have told their 15,000 members that powerhouse agencies CAA and WME still cannot represent them again after an 18-month standoff.The WGA, in an email sent Wednesday afternoon, said that the holdout agencies have not agreed to the guild’s demand that they limit their investment in their respective production affiliates to 20%.CAA had announced on Sept.

A few weeks after the Academy unveiled its new inclusion requirements for the Oscars, the Writers Guild of America West is criticizing the "blatant omission" of standards for hiring older creatives in the rules.

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorThe WGA has penciled in the dates for its 2021 Writers Guild Awards and set the timeline for TV and film nominations, submission deadlines, voting and nominee panels.The 73rd annual dual-coast Writers Guild Awards will be held Sunday, March 21, in separate ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York. The scribes’ TV nominees — along with those for New Media, News, Radio/Audio and Promotional Writing — are set to be revealed Wednesday, February 3.

Dave McNary Film ReporterThe 73rd edition of the Writers Guild of America Awards ceremony has been scheduled for March 21, 2021 — five weeks before the Oscars.The WGA made the announcement Monday and said submissions are open for feature screenplays in the original, adapted, and documentary; in television series in drama, comedy, and new; for TV-Radio-New Media scripts; and for the Paul Selvin Award, presented by the WGA West.Nominations will be announced on Feb.

Did John Brown, the infamous abolitionist who led the 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, really take a cross-dressing teenage slave under his wing and name him Onion? No, not at all. “The Good Lord Bird,” which never purports itself as a true retelling, opens each episode with the tagline “All of this is true.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- A teenage singer from Lebanon this week became the latest to join a global pop band formed by Simon Fuller, the man behind the Spice Girls and “American Idol,” which aims to transform young unknowns into internet superstars.That may seem a grandiose ambition during a global pandemic.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticWriters Guild of America West has announced the results of its 2020 Board of Directors election, with eight members elected for two-year terms.Of the eight, only one – Eric Haywood – is a non-incumbent.The elected members include Haywood, Betsy Thomas, Deric A. Hughes, Ashley Gable, Patti Carr, David Slack, Travis Donnelly and Patric M.

Amid a busy year for newsroom unionization, the Writers Guild of America East unveiled its new council leadership. The union revealed the results of its election on Thursday, which determined seven freelance seats and three staff seats on the 19-person council.

Major talent agency CAA and the Writers Guild of America sent out dueling updates on the status of their talks on Monday, with the union saying the major agency has yet to agree to a deal. "CAA has proposed changes to the agreement that the WGA has not – and cannot – agree to.

Also Read: Writers Guild Says It Has Hit Limit in Franchise Agreement Talks With CAA, WMECAA became the third major Hollywood agency to agree to a new deal, following behind ICM and UTA. WME, at this point, remains the only hold out among the major agencies.UTA, ICM, CAA and WME account for more than 90% of the packaging fee deals — those in which agencies bundle writers, talent and creators for a project and sell to a studio — in Hollywood.