SAG-AFTRA member John Schmitt, second from right, and others carry signs on the picket line outside Netflix on Wednesday, Sept. 27, in Los Angeles. It would be great if this week’s talks between the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents the studios, turn out to be …
This Is The 1 Thing That Concerns Me Most About Hollywood “Obviously all the issues are necessary enough to strike or else we wouldn’t have done it, but I think it’s just the complete lack of empathy. Obviously all the issues are necessary enough to strike or else we wouldn’t have done it, but I think it’s just the complete …
Headquarters of the Writers Guild of America West building in the Fairfax area. The Writers Guild of America has released data showing how streaming has depressed Hollywood writers’ pay over the last decade. “The companies have used the transition to streaming to cut writer pay and separate writing from production, worsening working conditions for series writers at all levels,” the …
Actor R Madhavan’s directorial debut Rocketry: The Nambi Effect was screened at the Cannes Film Market, and writer Sukhmani Sadana got overwhelmed by its reponse. On the film’s response at Cannes, Sadana says, “I was expecting this kind of a response from the global audience because the film applies to all sorts of emotions and nations. We wanted to show …
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