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The board of directors SAG-AFTRA's Los Angeles Local voted overwhelmingly Tuesday – strictly along the guild's fractious party lines – to oppose ratification of the union's new film and TV contract. The local is the union's largest, representing just under 50 percent of the entire membership, and just over 50 percent…

UPDATED, JULY 3, 8 PM Just one day after SAG-AFTRA put the kibosh on producer Michael Bay’s Songbird, the guild rescinded its Do Not Work order for the feature, produced by On a Lark Productions, LLC. Guild members are now free to work on the production effective immediately. PREVIOUSLY, JULY 2, 2 PM SAG-AFTRA today…

Writers Guild of America leaders have endorsed the union’s tentative deal negotiated this week with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. In an email message this morning (read it below), union leaders said that “both the WGAW Board and WGAE Council voted unanimously to recommend the…

Ratification ballots are in the mail for the new SAG-AFTRA contract, with pro and con statements from opponents and proponents. Opponents have issued a minority report urging members to vote no, saying that the deal "enshrines historic losses and missed opportunities." Proponents, saying that this is the best deal in…

SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris is urging the members to vote yes to ratify the union’s new film and TV contract, saying in a video message to her members today that the pact "is the most lucrative deal we have ever negotiated. It’s valued at $318 million over the three year term of the contract. That’s an…

The 2021 SAG Awards will take place on March 14, a month and a half later than expected due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 27th annual awards show had been set for?Jan. 24, 2021. Eligibility requirements have also been modified, with the eligibility period extended by two months. To be eligible, movies, television and…

The WGA said tonight that it had to "fight off significant writer-centric rollbacks," in its now-completed negotiations for a new film and TV contract, which the guild said "would have been very damaging.” The new pact, which was reached in the early morning hours today, contains many of the guild’s terms, but also…

EXCLUSIVE: The executive committee of Actors’ Equity Association unanimously?has rejected Walt Disney World’s reopening safety plan for workers because the proposal does not include coronavirus testing for the park’s performers. In an email to its members that was obtained by Deadline, Equity writes: “Disney knows…

After long and hard negotiations conducted remotely, the WGA and the AMPTP have secured a tentative overall deal that brings much-desired labor stability to an industry already hobbled by the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. After a last-ditch marathon bargaining session that stretched into the early hours…

Just when you thought that guidelines for the film and TV industry's safe return to work were in place and ready to implement, Cathy Repola, executive director of the Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700, says that those protocols "are still in the works." In a video message to her members today, she said: "We are still in…

SAG-AFTRA, which represents thousands of radio and TV newscasters, today called on the broadcast industry to create more inclusive and diverse newsrooms. "We believe diversity in newsrooms can cause necessary challenges to established majority viewpoints, can help guide what and how stories are covered, can bring…

The WGA's film and TV contract expires tonight at midnight. The current pact had been set to expire May 1, but was extended to midnight June 30 because of the coronavirus shutdown. The guild and management's AMPTP started bargaining via video conference on May 18. The guild is seeking a wide range of improvements…