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Exclusive: Olga Wilhelmine, SAG-aftra’s national board member from New Orleans, is on a mission. With so many of her fellow actors struggling financially during the pandemic, she’s trying to connect them with their unclaimed residuals.

The union is holding tens of millions of dollars in unclaimed SAG residuals for tens of thousands of actors and their heirs that it can’t locate. Wilhelmine wants to help find them and get them the money they’re owed.

She sent a letter to the union’s leaders this week asking them to establish a task force “to assist the Residuals Department with the location of members or their heirs and the distribution of their unclaimed residuals; and in establishing new procedures to expedite that distribution.”

In the meantime, however, she’s been reaching out to actors on her own whose names she’s found while scouring the union’s unclaimed residuals website,...

There are a lot of reasons why independent filmmakers gravitate towards ensemble pieces for their first few features, not the least of which is the company they keep. The now copies the mid-2000s, the mid-2000s copied the mid-’90s, and the mid-’90s copied the swiftness of ‘60s France. But while the particular subgenre of wayward teens is associated almost entirely with American culture, why is it that so many of these movies have so little to do with America itself? Is there nothing in between the camera and the subjects? An ethnography if one thing, but there should be some disconnect that invites the viewer to partake.

Beast Beast, the second film from Danny Madden, fails in that regard. There’s no real point of view, no real specificity beyond its sense of atmosphere. It’s Georgia, but we just know that because of the license plates.

The opposition party at SAG-aftra’s local in New Orleans has won a resounding victory in a re-run of the August election that was mandated by the local’s election committee. Olga Wilhelmine, who won the original contest for a seat on the national board, won again in the re-run, as did all of her running mates on the Nola Slate for Change.

Wilhelmine handily defeated Charles Ferrara for the national board seat, 151-64 – a margin of 70%-30%. In the August election, she defeated him 56-44%. Ferrara also lost in the race for vice president, as he did the first time, to Randal Gonzalez, who this time got 62% of the vote. Kerry Kelly Gridley won again as secretary, this time with 70% of the vote.

The re-run was ordered after the local’s election committee found that the Nola Slate for Change candidates had accepted “unlawful contributions” from employers at a...

Another week, another installment of VOD Vault – taking a look at some on-demand releases that have hit various VOD platforms recently. It’s been more than a few months since our last installment, so what say we kick off this debut edition for 2018 with two films that share something in common… Comedy!

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Stars: Paul Brittain, Adam Herschman, Christine Bently, Neil Flynn, Tim Meadows, Dean J. West, Sherri Eakin, John McConnell, Chip Carriere | Written by James Weldon | Directed by Drew Hall

The legend of Bigfoot has been mined in genre movies for decades – from the cheesy exploitation films of the 70s to more recent fare such as Sightings or Bigfoot Country. However aside from That popular 80s family film, Bigfoot hasn’t really been the focus of cinematic comedy… Until now. Originally titled Nigel and Oscar vs. Bigfoot, Sasq-Watch gathers together a bunch of familiar faces from TV (including shows...

Recently, CBS released the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "NCIS: New Orleans" episode 19 of season 1. The episode is entitled, "The Insider," and it turns out that we're going to see some very dramatic and intense stuff go down as Wade,Sebastian and Danny become victims of a vicious hostage takeover that revolves a round a petty officer, and more! In the new, 19th episode press release: Wade, Sebastian And Danny Are Taken Hostage In The Morgue After An Armed Man Demands The Remains Of A Petty Officer. Press release number 2: While conducting an autopsy on a Petty Officer who is believed to have died from natural causes, an armed man will enter the morgue and holds Wade, Sebastian and Danny hostage. Guest stars feature: Russell Richardson (Marcus Martel) Daryl "Chill" Mitchell (Investigative Computer Specialist Patton Plame) Christopher Meyer (Danny Malloy) Philip Anthony-Rodriguez (Navy Captain Michael Dawson) Endre Hules (Dr.