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As SAG-AFTRA and other artists’ groups sound the alarm over the proliferation of AI deepfakes, studios are warning that too sweeping a proposed solution would violate the First Amendment. The alternate views of a draft bill, called the No Fakes Act, were apparent in a Senate hearing on Tuesday…

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…

Hollywood's long strike season is over and the town can finally get back to work without the specter of any more labor action, for now. Actors were on strike for 118 days, but after ratifying the deal between SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP, with a very healthy 78.33% of the votes, thesps, scribes…

Fran Drescher may have injected some Buddhism into SAG-AFTRA's online meeting today on the new tentative agreement with the studios, but there was almost nothing monastic about the guild president's opinion of critics of the November 8 deal.   "I just want you to know that nobody was thrown under the…

The studios wasted no time Friday responding to the SAG-AFTRA National Board’s vote to approve the new tentative agreement between the guild and the AMPTP. “We are pleased that the National Board has recommended the agreement for ratification by the membership,” an AMPTP spokesperson said in a…

SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher and National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland on Friday laid out how the actors’ 118-day strike was ended and their thoughts on the deal with the AMPTP. The duo, in a press conference at its Wilshire Blvd HQ, detailed the stresses and…

EXCLUSIVE: "We know that generations from now they’ll be talking about this seminal contract and reaping the benefits of it in the way that we have been for the last 65 years with a contract that was negotiated when Ronald Reagan was in my position," SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher says of the new deal t…

After 118 days of the actors guild being out on strike, SAG-AFTRA and the studios on Wednesday reached a tentative deal on a new contract that could see Hollywood up and running again within weeks. The strike will be over as of 12:01 a.m. PT on Thursday, November 9, we hear, putting an end to more…

This was not how David Zaslav and Bob Iger wanted today to go. As recently as 36 hours ago, the Warner Bros Discovery boss and the Disney CEO believed, along with other studio chiefs, the nearly five-month long SAG-AFTRA strike could be over by now. Yesterday, with the guild and the AMPTP closing the…

2nd UPDATE, EXCLUSIVE, 10:29 PM: SAG-AFTRA and the studios have finally called it a night on the latest talks in search of a new three-year contract. In the past 30 minutes or so, the actors union and the AMPTP ended a long bargaining session that started this afternoon. The thinking is they will…

UPDATE, 3:14PM AFTER EXCLUSIVE: After meeting with studio CEOs earlier today, SAG-AFTRA has put out a statement, that they’re looking over the latest proposal from the AMPTP which the studios bill as their “last, best, and final offer.” “We received an offer today from the AMPTP, which they…

UPDATED, 7:44 PM: Hard to tell if it is going to be a trick or a treat from SAG-AFTRA and the studios this Halloween, but the two sides are set to meet again in person on Tuesday. "The committee worked independently today," the Fran Drescher-run guild told members Monday evening. "We will be meeting…