UPDATE: The WGA is officially on strike against Village Roadshow Entertainment Group after the production company stiffed multiple writers. On Saturday, the union announced the stop work order, prohibiting members from business with The Matrix franchise and Mad Max Fury Road banner under Working Rule…

UPDATED, 12:45 PM: Writers Guild members have ratified their new three-year contract with PBS stations WGBH, Thirteen and PBS SoCal. "PBS writers secured a groundbreaking contract with their unwavering solidarity," WGAE President Lisa Takeuchi Cullen said in a statement. "This contract covers PBS…

The Writers Guild of America says the Hollywood studios have “harmed” its members and violated the Minimum Basic Agreement by not acting on the use of their copyrighted works to train generative AI models. A seething letter issued Thursday by the guild claims that tech companies like Meta, Apple and…

EXCLUSIVE: Writers at PBS member stations are still hoping to secure a new union contract before the clock strikes midnight on Friday, and the 94-member bargaining unit strengthened its plea ahead of a potential strike with a pledge from more than 200 PBS animation writers who have agreed not to cross…

EXCLUSIVE: A decade after the last major overhaul of California’s film and TV tax credits program, Gov. Gavin Newsom today will unveil a massive increase in the incentives to jump start work and production in the home of Hollywood. In an announcement this afternoon at Raleigh Studios, the Governor…

Although Woman of the Hour takes some creative liberties, the true crime film’s writer aimed to capture the “emotional reality” of Rodney Alcala‘s murders. Following a Saturday screening of the Netflix film hosted by Writers Guild of America, screenwriter Ian McDonald told me in a Q&A that he felt…

When the clock struck midnight one year ago today, the Writers Guild of America officially ended its historic 148-day strike against the major Hollywood studios. It was just a few days shy of the guild’s longest strike ever, and as a result, the WGA managed to secure just about everything members…

SAG-AFTRA’s Duncan Crabtree-Ireland was the highest paid among the Hollywood union leaders and the ninth highest-paid labor official in the country last year. The National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator, who helped lead the actors union through a historic 118-day strike last year, earned a…

There's a bar in Studio City where writers and actors can take any residuals check under $1 and exchange it for a drink. Residuals – the bar, that is – may now start seeing fewer checks from writers after it emerged that the WGA West is introducing direct deposits for the first time. The writers…

EXCLUSIVE: The Writers Guild of America has placed producer Steve Small and his company Fifty Feet Movie, LLC on the union’s Strike/Unfair List over financial concerns on multiple films. A memo sent to members on Wednesday points to Article 42 of the 2023 Minimum Basic Agreement, which allowed the…

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of Deadline reports looking at how the current upheaval in the media & entertainment industry is impacting mental health. One year ago, Hollywood found itself in the midst a historic work stoppage, with two unions — the Writers Guild of America and…

The new WGA-AMPTP deal is months old but the AI battle is far from over, according to union negotiator John August. August was speaking on an AVPSummit panel showcasing several AI-generated videos and images that he said represents a grave threat, even after the WGA was able to secure AI guardrails…