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Writers Guild Calls a Strike Authorization Vote
The Writers Guild is taking its first step toward a potential industry strike. The union has set a strike authorization vote, with online polls opening April 11 at 8:30 p.m. and closing April 17 at 12 p.m., the guild announced to members on Monday. While a strike authorization vote does not ensure a writers strike […]
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Potential Writers Strike Presents Disruption (and Opportunity) to Global Content Creators
If Hollywood writers go on strike — a possibility as we close in on the May 1 deadline without a new deal between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) — the impact will be felt far beyond New York and Los Angeles. Around the world, producers and distribution […]
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Writers Guild Says It’s Pushing to Prohibit AI-Generated Works Under Contract in Negotiations
While the Writers Guild of America is at the negotiating table with studios and streamers hammering out the industry’s approach to this evolving technology, the union has clarified its stance on works created with the help of artificial intelligence. The guild stated that it is seeking in these talks to ban AI from being used […]
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Reality TV Workers Launch Union Drive at ‘The Kitchen’ and ‘Trisha’s Southern Kitchen’ Producer
A group of producers at BSTV Entertainment, the shingle behind Food Network projects like The Kitchen and Trisha’s Southern Kitchen, is attempting to unionize. A majority of the collection of 19 workers (whom the guild is calling writer-producers) at the Montclair, New Jersey-based development and production company have signed union cards in an attempt to […]
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Writers Vote to Approve Guild Priorities for 2023 Negotiations
The Writers Guild of America’s members have spoken, and they are supporting their union’s objectives for the 2023 round of contract negotiations. In a vote over the union’s “pattern of demands” this year — a list of general priorities leaders would like to address in its negotiations with studios and streamers — 98.4 percent of the […]
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Writers Guild to Begin Contract Negotiations March 20
The Writers Guild’s highly anticipated 2023 contract negotiations are set to begin in less than a month. Bargaining will begin on the WGA’s successor pact to its minimum basic agreement on March 20, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) announced on Wednesday. “The AMPTP is fully committed to reaching a fair and reasonable deal that […]
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WGA Signals TV Writing Staff Sizes, Higher Income May Be Prioritized in Coming Negotiations
The Writers Guild’s key priorities for its upcoming contract talks are beginning to come into focus. As speculation about a potential strike — which, if it took place, would be the first since the union picketed for 100 days in 2007-2008 — runs rampant across the industry, this week Guild leaders began informing members of […]
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Charlie Kaufman to Receive WGA West’s 2023 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement
Charlie Kaufman, who penned the Writers Guild Award and Academy Award-winning Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, will receive the Writers Guild of America West’s 2023 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, the WGAW announced on Wednesday. This lifetime achievement award is presented to members who have “advanced the literature of motion pictures and made outstanding […]
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More Than 400 Writers Guild Members Call on MSNBC to Reach “Fair Contract” With Union
The Writers Guild of America East is putting some additional pressure on MSNBC to expedite contract negotiations. More than 400 members of the union — including star members Tina Fey, Lilly Wachowski and David Simon — are calling on the cable news brand to agree “to a fair contract that includes the pay and protections […]
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Writers Guild Awards: ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once,’ ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Among Film Screenplay Nominations
The Writers Guild has revealed its nominations in the categories of original, adapted and documentary screenplay, with Oscar-nominated scripts for Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Fabelmans, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Tár, Top Gun: Maverick and Women Talking all earning nods. Along with the Daniels’ Everything Everywhere, Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner’s The […]
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Spike Lee to Receive WGA East Award for Career Achievement
The Writers Guild of America East has named the latest recipient of its career achievement award: Spike Lee. The Do the Right Thing and Da 5 Bloods filmmaker will receive the East Coast guild’s Ian McLellan Hunter Award at the 75th Annual Writers Guild Awards when their New York ceremony takes place at the Edison […]
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John Oliver, Amy Schumer and More Sign Writers Guild DEI Pledge for Late Night and Comedy/Variety TV Writers
The Writers Guild of America East and Writers Guild of America West have crafted a pledge committing to improving diversity, equity and inclusion in late night and comedy/variety TV, signed by more than 50 supervisory scribes in the space. The diverse group, which includes John Oliver, Amber Ruffin, Amy Schumer and Charlamagne tha God, acknowledges […]
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