WGA
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🎧 The Merger Drama That Won’t Stay in Vegas
CinemaCon under a Paramount-Warners cloud; plus, inside the WGA deal with a top negotiator
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The WGA Deal’s ‘Cruelest Cut’: Healthcare — and Why Some Members May Vote No
Exclusive details from Saturday’s member meeting: ‘They had us over all the barrels,’ says Marc Guggenheim
Latest WGA stories
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Rushfield: Sorry Tale of Two Letters
The Memo Wars of 2023 reveal how far apart this remains for all the wrong reasons
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Leaks, Meetings & Calls. Oh My!
After months of silence, studio heads seem newly committed to ending the industry shutdown
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Rushfield: After The DGA – The Sound of Silence
Perhaps Gov. Newsom should/could intervene as only one side shouts
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Daily Digest: Carey, Garner Feed Writers as Fave Studio Restaurants Take a Hit
➕ Drew Carey drops $10k a week on Big Boy’s meals; pointing fingers at business affairs
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Execs on Eggshells: ‘This Puts Us in a Weird Place’
Already stressed-out, ‘I live in a state of… ugh’ says one suit, as the strike tests social lives, allegiances and all sense of what to work on
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Rushfield: The Rube Goldberg Nightmare of 2023
Netflix is resolute, CAA braces for an actors strike, writers await a backstabbing as fingers point
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Weekend Digest: Momentum Builds for a ‘Hot Labor Summer’
Zaslav, ‘bad employers’ bear the brunt at the Unions Strike Back rally: ‘If you want to f*** around, you’re going to find out’
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Daily Digest: Plight of the Modern Showrunner
Plus: Hollywood’s support staffers are feeling the burn of suddenly being out of a job
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Daily Digest: Violence at the Gates
Two writers were hit by a car at a picket line last week at Universal; tensions arose between a driver and writers yesterday
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Daily Digest: Why This Strike Feels So Different
‘We never talked about Wall Street in ’07,’ says one showrunner. Now ‘it’s about the whole corporate dominance of America’
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Rushfield Day 3: Netflix Bears the Brunt at the Shrine
When a teamster says ‘it’s time to take the motherf***s down’, is a coalition born?
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Day One on the Picket: Battle of the Clever Signs!
From Netflix to WB to NBC — no one was spared as big names marched
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Point-by-Point: Where the WGA and AMPTP Got Stuck
Studios say it came down to how many TV writers should be in the room and for how long
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‘Last-Day-of-School Energy’ in the Writers Room
Across town, scribes are preparing madly for possible pencils down