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SAG-AFTRA’s Duncan Crabtree-Ireland was the highest paid among the Hollywood union leaders and the ninth highest-paid labor official in the country last year. The National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator, who helped lead the actors union through a historic 118-day strike last year, earned a…

There's a bar in Studio City where writers and actors can take any residuals check under $1 and exchange it for a drink. Residuals – the bar, that is – may now start seeing fewer checks from writers after it emerged that the WGA West is introducing direct deposits for the first time. The writers…

EXCLUSIVE: The Writers Guild of America has placed producer Steve Small and his company Fifty Feet Movie, LLC on the union’s Strike/Unfair List over financial concerns on multiple films. A memo sent to members on Wednesday points to Article 42 of the 2023 Minimum Basic Agreement, which allowed the…

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of Deadline reports looking at how the current upheaval in the media & entertainment industry is impacting mental health. One year ago, Hollywood found itself in the midst a historic work stoppage, with two unions — the Writers Guild of America and…

The new WGA-AMPTP deal is months old but the AI battle is far from over, according to union negotiator John August. August was speaking on an AVPSummit panel showcasing several AI-generated videos and images that he said represents a grave threat, even after the WGA was able to secure AI guardrails…

Hollywood might be experiencing some labor déjà vu today as IATSE talks with the studios look certain to go down to the wire with just under two months before the union’s contracts expire. The union announced Thursday that it had not yet reached a deal on the Basic Agreement nor the Area Standards…

It’s official: Writers Guild members at the Sesame Workshop have got a new contract. The writers “overwhelmingly” approved the five-year collective bargaining agreement, the guild announced on Friday. Sesame Workshop writers reached a tentative deal in April, but not before unanimously voting to…

UPDATED, 4:53 PM: Writers Guild members at Sesame Workshop have reached a tentative deal with management to avoid a threatened strike. A ratification vote on the new five-year collective bargaining agreement will be held in the coming days. The WGA said its 35 Sesame Workshop writers won “historic&#8221…

The writers of MTV’s Ridiculousness have officially bargained their first contract. After the writers voted to organize under the Writers Guild of America West last year, the union announced Wednesday that they had achieved a deal covering all writing staff including creative consultants, supervising…

The David Hemingson-scripted Alexander Payne dramedy The Holdovers and Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction were the big film winners at the strike-delayed 2024 Writers Guild Awards, which were handed out Sunday in Los Angeles and New York. Jefferson — who also was honored with the WGA West’s Paul Selvi…

SAG-AFTRA, IATSE the WGA, and the DGA have united behind a legislative move to put up some new and slightly punitive guardrails around Artificial Intelligence. "Everything generated by AI ultimately originates from a human creative source, says Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, SAG-AFTRA National Executive…

A frequent target of harsh Republican attacks, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA)  is putting up the digital barricades for his reelection campaign. On the ballot in November like every member of the House of Representatives, the six-term California Congressman has teamed up with the technology services of…