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A street that is heavily trafficked by picketers next to Walt Disney Studios just got a little easier to traverse. On Tuesday, picketers were surprised by newly-installed blockades that gave them a safer space to walk along Keystone Street between Alameda Avenue and West Riverside Drive. But that…

Treegate just became a thing. City Controller Kenneth Mejia has vowed to look into the newly pruned Ficus trees outside of Universal’s Gate 8, after picketers drew attention to their thinned branches while marching in 90-degree-plus heat. Pine trees on the opposite side of Barham weren’t touched, and…

Writers Guild of America West members paid more dues than ever before on record earnings in the year before the ongoing strike, although a good part of that may be due to a speed-up in pre-strike production. Exact figures aren't available because the guild did not include earnings and employment…

It's Day 5 of the SAG-AFTRA strike and Day 79 of the WGA strike.  Rachel McAdams, The Simpsons' James L. Brooks, Succession duo Alan Ruck and Justine Lupe, Jaleel White, who played Steve Urkel, and spiritual advisor/Presidential candidate Marianne Williamson were some of the broad range of people out…

With all the strike talk about low pay, WGA and SAG-AFTRA members are starting to play a little show me yours and I’ll show you mine when it comes to their (paltry) residual checks. Just about everyone has a story to share about how their residuals took a serious nose dive with the advent of new media…

A row of previously bushy Ficus trees on Barham Boulevard that were inexplicably pruned over the hot weekend has only heightened the frustration of WGA strikers at Universal — especially since construction on the Lankershim Boulevard side has made it challenging to walk the picket line. On Monday…

It’s Day 5 of the SAG-AFTRA strike and Day 79 of the WGA strike.  Writers and actors on strike simultaneously for the first time in more than 60 years fanned out across Manhattan on Tuesday morning with renewed demands for better pay, more job security and limits on the use of artificial intelligence…

UK actors union Equity is to rally in solidarity with SAG-AFTRA later this week in London and Manchester. Attendees announced so far for the rally taking place at 12 p.m. GMT (4 a.m. PT) on Friday include Equity General Secretary Paul W Fleming, Equity President Lynda Rooke and John McDonnell, the…

UPDATED with AMPTP response: Saying that “we’re fighting for the survival of our profession,” the SAG-AFTRA leaders tonight released the details of just how far they and the companies were when contract talks broke off and the performers launched their first strike against the film and scripted TV…

Ahead of the recent breakdown of contract negotiations between SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, Tom Cruise spoke with reps for both parties about issues like AI and project promotion, as well as some specifically concerning stunt professionals, Deadline has…

EXCLUSIVE: SAG-AFTRA is on strike, but not all members of the union won't be working. Since the 160,000 strong SAG -AFTRA officially declared on June 14 that it was joining the Writers Guild on the picket lines, the Fran Drescher-run group has been working on granting waivers to indie…

It's Day 4 of the SAG-AFTRA strike and Day 77 of the WGA strike. "Discover the past, live the present and fight the future," was an apt message from The X-Files‘ 1998 spinoff movie and it's one that could be applied to the current actors and writers strike. It seems timely, then, that some of…