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Park Chan-wook expelled from The Writers Guild of America

Due to a writers’ strike breach, famed Old Boy director Park Chan-wook has been expelled from The Writers Guild of America.

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Writers’ union urges investigation into Paramount move to cancel Colbert show

Writers Guild of America requests New York attorney general investigate ‘potential wrongdoing’ after shock cancellation

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Robert Towne, Oscar-winning screenwriter of Chinatown, dies aged 89

Writer, who died in his Los Angeles home, also worked without credit on The Godfather and Bonnie and Clyde

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Writers Guild Of America Announces Nominations For 2023 Honors.

Explore the nominations for the Writers Guild of America awards in screenwriting and television for 2023, featuring works like 'Air,' 'Barbie,' 'The Crown,...

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A nostalgic Emmys gives us historic wins

In an ironic move for a Emmys telecast on MLK Day, the producers gazed backward in TV history. It mostly worked

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Boxing clever: Zac Garred is taking the story of Les Darcy to Hollywood

'I love telling stories, I love narrative.'

Newcastle Herald

How Hollywood writers triumphed over AI – and why it matters

Observers hail a ‘smart’ deal that allows for artificial intelligence as a tool, not a replacement – and could be a model for other industries

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The fight for 2% − how residuals became a sticking point for striking actors

Streaming disrupted the entire entertainment industry, upending the DVD-purchasing, film-renting, moviegoing model of decades past.

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Humans win the first big AI labor dispute

The WGA's deal with the studios may be specific to its context, but at its heart is a widely applicable principle about AI in the workplace.

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First Thing: Donald Trump committed fraud, New York judge rules in civil case

Judge refuses to dismiss lawsuit accusing former US president of inflating assets and net worth

The Guardian - UK

Writers Guild of America calls off strike with late night talk-shows first to resume after five-month freeze

Union votes to accept deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers after nearly five months on the picket line

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Hollywood writers return to work, after a nearly five month strike

The 148-day Hollywood writers strike ended just after 12:01 a.m. PT on Wednesday, thanks to a new three-year deal the Writers Guild of America made with major Hollywood studios.

WEKU

Hollywood writers agree to end five-month strike after new studio deal

Writers Guild of America said its members could return to work while a ratification vote takes place for fresh three-year contract

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Hollywood writers could be back to work soon after tentative deal reached

Actors’ union remains on strike.

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Tentative deal reached to end the Hollywood writers strike. No deal yet for actors

A tentative deal has been reached to end Hollywood’s writers strike after nearly five months

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AOC slams TV shows resuming despite writer’s strike: ‘I don’t support people who break picket lines’

Drew Barrymore and Bill Maher have both announced their shows will resume despite a strike by writers and actors

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'You could be the hero': Fran Drescher tells NPR how the Hollywood strikes can end

Fran Drescher, president of the actors' union SAG-AFTRA, says the Hollywood strikes are at an inflection point.

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Late night TV hosts team up for a new podcast amid the writers' strike

The biggest names in late night have turned their private group chat into a Spotify podcast. All the proceeds will go to support their staff during the writers' strike.

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Jimmy Kimmel says Ben Affleck and Matt Damon offered to pay his staff amid writers’ strike

Late-night host’s talk show has been temporarily suspended since the Writers Guild of America went on strike in May

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When it comes to the Hollywood strikes, it's not just the entertainment industry that's being hurt

It’s been more than 100 days since members of the Writers Guild of America stopped working and more than a month since the actors union joined them

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What are Hollywood actors and writers afraid of? A cinema scholar explains how AI is upending the movie and TV business

The bitter conflict between actors, writers and other creative professionals and the major movie and TV studios represents a flashpoint in the radical transformation roiling the entertainment industry. The ongoing strikes by the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild were sparked in part by artificial intelligence and…

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Producers and Writers Are Finally Sitting Down To Talk

The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have asked for a meeting with the Writers Guild of America on Friday to discuss contract negotiations, but don’t get your hopes up. This is just a first step

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Computer-written scripts and deepfake actors: what’s at the heart of the Hollywood strikes against generative AI

For the first time in 60 years, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) are simultaneously facing off against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.

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Hollywood Unions Strike Against Studios And Streamers Over Labor Contract

Hollywood writers and actors strike for fair labor contract amid demands for higher pay and protection against AI technology.

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SAG strikers lament lack of A-listers on picket line: ‘Where the f— is Ben Affleck?’

LOS ANGELES — By 9 a.m. Tuesday, hundreds of SAG-AFTRA and WGA members and supporters had gathered outside the Netflix studios on Sunset Boulevard in the heart of Hollywood. Armed with signs, water and sunscreen, the picketers represent the 160,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild who went on strike…

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