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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…

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…

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…

If you’re a social media influencer and want to take work promoting a film or TV series for a studio, but you’re not a SAG-AFTRA member — you might want to think twice. SAG-AFTRA has issued rules during the strike for social media influencers, and even if you’re not a member of the guild, but one…

UPDATE: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass issued a new statement on the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, this time making a more explicit case for labor and their need to get “fair and equitable” contracts. Bass has avoided overtly taking sides in the work stoppage, at least in the way that some other Southern…

SAG-AFTRA is expanding its strike activities outside Los Angeles and New York this week, with picket lines and rallies in Orlando, Atlanta and Hawaii. In Orlando, SAG-AFTRA members will rally outside the entrance of the Disney Resort this afternoon for a "quick photo op," the guild says. In…

Artificial intelligence continues to be one of the hot topics as we head into the second week of the actors strike with Congressman Adam Schiff joining the picket line to call for more AI regulation. Schiff, who is running for Senate in California, joined SAG-AFTRA Chief Negotiator Duncan…