WGA

  • Bloody WGA Election Finally Heads to a Vote

    Outcome likely to determine whether the Guild goes on strike when studio contract ends in 2011.

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  • TheWrap Shows You What the Foreign Levy Lawsuit Was All About

    “Why is a man in his sixties only just receiving royalties for his films, which were due in his thirties?”

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    TheWrap Shows You What the Foreign Levy Lawsuit Was All About

  • WGA Settles, Eric Hughes Will Challenge (updated)

    A week after WaxWord publishes whistleblower testimony, the guild agrees to pay out $30 mill in residuals and foreign levies

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  • WGA Candidates Wine and Dine

    Event was guarded with a velvet rope presence that wouldn’t have been out of place at a Hollywood hot spot.

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    Dominic Patten

  • SAG, WGA Elections Heating Up

    Voting results for both guilds will be unveiled in September.

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    Deborah Stokol

  • Shredding Checks: Whistleblower Mial’s Testimony (part II)

    Read part one:  Exclusive: WGA Whistleblower Terri Mial’s Testimony   Part two:    Guild whistleblower Terri Mial testified in December 2006 about the Writers Guild of America sitting on residual and foreign levy money belonging to both members and non-members. I posted a few days ago on the first section of that testimony. Here, at…

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  • Exclusive: WGA Whistleblower Terri Mial’s Testimony

    this post was updated and corrected at 6:45 pm: Here’s an explosive update on those nasty foreign levy lawsuits that nobody wants to talk about. Bill Richert, the screenwriter who is leading a class action lawsuit against the Writers Guid of America, has written to object that I called him a "loose cannon" in a…

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  • The Emmys Tried to Shake Things Up. Oh Well.

    “There are factions within the Academy who simply don’t respect the will of the majority.”

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    Josef Adalian
    The Emmys Tried to Shake Things Up. Oh Well.

  • DGA to TV Academy: Cut!

    Another day, another Hollywood guild complaining about the TV Academy’s planned Emmy changes.   Today’s outburst comes from the Directors Guild of America. My story on the complaint, first reported by J. Hibberd’s The Live Feed, is here.    The slow drip-drip-drip of outrage only underscores the need for everyone involved to stop with the…

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  • Emmy War: Both Sides Need to Chill

    The TV Academy is finally fighting back against those voices opposed to its planned Emmy changes.    Academy CEO John Shaffner and Emmy executive producer Don Mischer defended the slated tweaks today during a powwow with reporters at the TCA press tour. Neil Patrick Harris, host of this year’s show, also begged dissidents to take…

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  • Showrunners Band Together To Bash Emmys

    WGA puts out list of scribes who oppose telecast changes.

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    Wrap Staff

  • It’s Time for a Vote, but Many SAG Members Feel Betrayed

    Like a small Balkan republic wrestling with political infighting, SAG members continue to be locked in combat with one another over the studio contract proposal.   Although SAG’s national board narrowly approved the deal in April, now it comes down for the members to vote.   And a lot of them are not happy. You think…

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    Kent Youngblood

  • ‘Slumdog’ Shut-Out as BAFTA, WGA add to winning streak

    Danny Boyle’s Indian romance added more trophies today to its growing treasure chest with a whopping seven Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs.

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    Lauren Horwitch

  • ‘Milk,’ ‘Slumdog’ nab top WGA honors

    ‘Milk’ wins Original Screenplay award; ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ takes Adapted award.

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    Wrap Staff