The Screen Actors Guild’s New York board is urging S.A.G.’s leadership to begin bargaining by March 31, well before the June 30 expiration of the SAG-AFTRA TV/theatrical contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers. S.A.G says it will be ready to open contract talks with the studios in the spring, but that’s Read More
Screen Actors Guild leaders remain mum about when they plan on gathering at the negotiation table with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers to replace a contract that’s set to expire June 30. But spats with sister performers union American Federation of Television and Radio Artists make the prospect of informal talks Read More
The Coen brothers’ No Country For Old Men won the top prize at the 14th annual Screen Actors Guild awards show, while The Sopranos cleaned up in the television categories. With this year’s Golden Globes reduced to a press conference and the fate of next month’s Oscars uncertain, the ordinarily downplayed Screen Actors Read More
According to Variety, the latest front in Hollywood’s labor war is over hair, makeup and limos. Insiders told the trade paper that ABC and ABC Studios will not pick up the tab for its talent attending the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Jan. 27, set to air on TNT and TBS. In less contentious Read More
Now that the Golden Globes has flopped and the Academy Awards are in jeopardy, the Screen Actors Guild and Film Independent Spirit awards shows have a chance to shine this year. Both shows—the proverbial bridesmaids, so to speak—have been granted waivers from the Writers Guild of America, so the stars are expected to show Read More
In 2005, the early release Crash pulled off its big win in the Screen Actors Guild ensemble race — which foreshadowed its big upset on Oscar night—after ambushing Hollywood with non-watermarked DVDs. According to Tom O’Neil at the Los Angeles Times‘ Gold Derby blog, yesterday’s SAG Awards nominees prove two points: "how key it Read More
Into the Wild led contenders for the Screen Actors Guild Awards with four nominations, including honors for lead actor Emile Hirsch and supporting players Hal Holbrook and Catherine Keener. The nominations were announced this morning.
Directed by Sean Penn, Into the Wild also was nominated for performance by its overall cast, along with the Read More
And so, just before 4 p.m. on Friday, May 4, the
long-threatened and much-dreaded writers’ strike was finally averted.
Representatives of the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion
Picture and Television Producers stepped in front of the TV cameras, smiled,
shook hands and announced that, after a week of marathon negotiations, a Read More
LOS ANGELES-February marks the end of the rainy season in
Los Angeles. The air is cool. The nights are chilly. A strange,
spirit-dampening meteorological phenomenon occurs out here that we on the East
Coast might call “weather”: There are entire days when the sky is filled with
rain clouds, when the glorious California sun doesn’t Read More
Wednesday, Oct. 18
Hey! Why don’t you care about the commercial actors’ strike? Why aren’t you hooking arms with Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins and standing up to the corporate greed of the advertising industry? Why aren’t you boycotting Procter & Gamble products, like the members of the Screen Actors Guild and Read More
