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SAG-AFTRA’s upcoming election is taking shape, with the union’s ruling party – headed by presidential candidate Fran Drescher – today unveiling its full slate of candidates.

Yvette Nicole Brown is running for president of the Los Angeles local, and Ezra Knight is running for president of the union’s New York local – each as part of the ruling parties’ Unite for Strength and Usan slate. Brown, a national board member, is nominated for an Emmy for A Black Lady Sketch Show, and Knight, who co-starred for many years on Law & Order, is the New York local’s vice president and a national board member.

“I believe nothing in our union works unless we are all working together,” Brown said. “As L.A. president I will advocate for each and every member and lead with kindness and respect. It’s been a tough time for us as work here in...

Unite for Strength, the ruling party of SAG-AFTRA, announced its slate of candidates today in the union’s upcoming elections.

Michelle Hurd, currently serving on the national board, will be running for president of the Los Angeles local; Clyde Kusatsu and Ellen Crawford will be running for vice president slots. Kusatsu is currently the national vice president from La, and Crawford is a national board member. As previously reported, Camryn Manheim will be running for national secretary-treasurer as president Gabrielle Carteris’ running mate.

Two candidates are challenging Carteris for president: Jane Austin, currently the guild’s national secretary-treasurer who’s running for president as an independent, and Matthew Modine, who is running at the top of the ticket for Membership First. His slate has yet to be announced.

In New York, Rebecca Damon, national executive vice president and New York president, is running for re-election as New York president.

New Year’s Eve sometimes yields worse things than introspective melancholia, hangovers and/or regretful one-night stands, as is the case in Ritchie Filippi’s upcoming horror feature The Eve. Read on for the one-sheet debut and several stills.

Written by producer and The Eve star Evan Bass and additionally produced by Angel L. Acevedo and David M. Rheingold, The Eve features cinematography by Brian C. Harnick and editing by Jess King with a score by Kenneth Hampton. The story revolves around a group of friends who, while celebrating New Year’s Eve on a remote island off of Martha’s Vineyard, find themselves marauded by an unforeseen presence which halts their celebration and turns their holiday into a fight to live through to the new year.

Al Thompson, Maria Didomenico, Miranda Noelle Wilson, Rick Estabrook, Margaux Kelley, and Jody Mullins round out the cast.

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With New Year's Eve upon us, we've received word of an indie horror film called...The Eve.

Directed by Ritchie Steven Filippi and written by Evan Bass Zeisel, the film concerns a group of friends that head off to the remote island of Martha’s Vineyard to celebrate New Year’s Eve and reconnect. As tensions rise, an unforeseen presence halts celebrations and instead turns their holiday into a fight to live through to the new year. Al Thomspon (You're Nobody Till Somebody Kills You), Maria Didomenico, Miranda Noelle Wilson, and Evan Bass (Harrison).

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As eBass Entertainment readies to premiere its feature-length horror-thriller film The Eve, the creators are paying tribute to the genre’s most iconic films with a special movie-poster homage. “Just as our film gives a nod to several classic thrillers, we wanted this art series to hint at The Eve’s roots in the horror tradition as well as its categorical twist,” says screenwriter and producer Evan Bass.

Fans of “Friday the 13th,” “Poltergeist,” and “The Evil Dead” will recognize signature artwork from those films’ respective posters, each given a fresh interpretation by a group of talented contributing designers as well as … More...

We hope everyone has had an exciting and restful holiday. Now it's 2009—a brand new year to show the world what we can do with web television. 2008 will be a tough act to follow. There were so many great shows last year, and the nominations for The Streamys are pouring in. If you aren't already pumped, take a look at Marc Hustvedt's call to arms and get going! This week we have some inspiring picks for you. MoCap, LLC, is going to Spike TV, and We Need Girlfriends is being developed into a pilot for network television. What are you waiting for? Get out there and make the next sitebuster! MoCap, LLC The little-viewed but hilarious series about a budget motion capture studio that "does the mo cap that no one else will do" just announced a deal with Spike TV. With their most popular video on YouTube receiving a meager 17,755 views,...

Sex and the City creator Darren Star has teamed with CBS to develop a comedy based on the Web series We Need Girlfriends.

The network has handed out a script commitment to the project, which would be written by Steven Tsapelas, Angel Acevedo and Brian Amyot, the masterminds behind the original series that has drawn as many as 700,000 views per episode on YouTube during its 11-episode run.

The online Girlfriends chronicles the adventures of Tom (Patrick Cohen), Henry (Seth Kirschner) and Rod (Evan Bass), recent college graduates struggling to understand the complex world of the New York dating scene after they are simultaneously dumped by their long-term college girlfriends.

Star will executive produce Girlfriends for CBS and Sony Pictures TV, with Dennis R. Erdman and Clark Peterson serving as co-exec producers.

It has been a busy development season for Star. He is executive producing the ABC comedy pilot Literary Superstars, starring Jenna Elfman, and has several projects in the works at other broadcast nets, including the one-hour Raffik, from writer Anthony Horowitz, set up at Fox.