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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Exclusive: WGA Warns Calif. Teacher Pension Fund on ‘Risk’ of Studio Stocks
‘We urge you to… express concern regarding the impact of the strike on your investments,’ said Yahlin Chang (‘Handmaid’s Tale’)
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Daily Digest: Meet The Strippers Union Backing the Writers Strike
➕ hundreds of unionized janitors join the WGA picket lines in solidarity
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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
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Week One of The Strike, 2007
Sixteen years ago, the WGA announced a strike. Photos and video reveal what happened immediately after