Actors Strike
Tatiana Maslany Says She Was “So Heated Up” When She Called Bob Iger “Out of Touch” on Picket Line
Tatiana Maslany opened up about calling Bob Iger “out of touch” during the actors and writers strikes. In a conversation with The Independent, the She-Hulk star explained how she was feeling when The Hollywood Reporter asked her on the strike picket line what she thought about the Disney CEO saying that unions’ demands during the […]
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‘Oppenheimer’ Team Praises Solidarity for Actors Strike During SAG Drama Ensemble Award Win
Oppenheimer performer Kenneth Branagh reminisced about his cast showing their support for last summer’s actors strike while accepting the prize for outstanding cast performance in a motion picture at the 2024 SAG Awards on Saturday. “Thank you for every SAG-AFTRA member whose support and whose sacrifice allows us to be standing here, better than we […]
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Kate Hudson Still Receives 10-Cent Residual Checks for ‘Home Alone 2’
Residuals aren’t what they used to be, apparently even if you’re A-list talent. That’s what Kate Hudson revealed on her Sibling Revelry podcast on Monday while speaking about the minuscule checks she receives from her brief appearance as a child in the hit sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. Hudson asked her guest, […]
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Quinta Brunson Explains ‘Abbott Elementary’ Time Jump in Season 3
[The following story contains spoilers from Abbott Elementary‘s season three premiere.] Abbott Elementary is back and, for season three, the hit ABC series did something different. The Quinta Brunson comedy picked up five months into the school year, only flashing back to the beginning of the year at the show’s central school, in order to […]
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How the Hollywood Strikes Hit U.K. Film, TV Production Spend in 2023
The film and TV production boom in the U.K. came to a grinding halt in 2023 amid the Hollywood writers and actors strikes. According to the British Film Institute, the total spend on film and high-end TV production last year reached £4.23 billion ($5.37 billion) from 394 productions, down 35 percent from £6.27 billion ($7.72 […]
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Gov. Gavin Newsom Addresses Why He Didn’t Get “More Involved” Publicly With Hollywood Strikes on ‘Real Time’
For the first Real Time episode of 2024, Bill Maher sat down with California Gov. Gavin Newsom to talk about the Hollywood strikes last year. During their conversation, the governor defended his behind-the-scenes role during most of the actors and writers strikes that brought the film and TV industry to a halt for several months. […]
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Employment in Hollywood Rebounds Post-Strikes, But Still Below 2022 Peak
The end of the Hollywood strikes caused employment in the sector to surge in November, but while the business is back, new data shows that there are still more than 25,000 fewer people employed than there were a year ago, suggesting that a return to normal could take longer than people think. The U.S. Bureau […]
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Fran Drescher Weighs In on Bob Iger’s Charm, ‘The Nanny’s Future and Her Own “Take No Sh**” Ethos
“I’m an unlikely labor leader,” Fran Drescher acknowledges on a late November evening. Before this summer, Drescher long had been synonymous in the public imagination with her most iconic role, Fran Fine, in the popular ’90s CBS sitcom The Nanny, which she tailored to her comedic strengths, including her thick Queens accent. The sassy childcare […]
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SAG-AFTRA Members Vote to Ratify Strike-Ending Contract
SAG-AFTRA members have voted to ratify the tentative deal that brought an end to the 118-day actors’ strike. In a contest that ended on Tuesday evening, 78.33 percent voted “yes” on the contract and 21.67 percent voted “no,” with a turnout of 38.15 percent. With members greenlighting the deal, the new agreement will now take […]
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“A Crazy, Heated Time”: SAG-AFTRA Members Debate Deal Merits Ahead of Ratification Vote
On Nov. 8, SAG-AFTRA reached a tentative deal with studios and streamers that officially brought an end to a nightmarish half a year of strikes in Hollywood. But initial jubilation among union actors soon turned to “crazy Internet infighting,” in the words of one member, over the agreement’s gains, principally the soundness of its AI […]
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After ‘Suits’ Soared on Netflix, Expect “a Bunch of Lawyer Shows” From Rivals, Ted Sarandos Says
Ted Sarandos has welcomed a resolution to the actors strike to allow his streamer, and Hollywood, to get back to work. “We’re mostly just thrilled the strike is behind us, and getting back to what we do best and what our writers and actors do best and all of our below-the-line folks, which is make […]
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Everything Is Peachy With Jack Black: Actor-Singer on Hit ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Song, ‘School of Rock’ Turning 20, Taylor Swift and AI
Jack Black’s performance of the emotional piano rock ballad “Peaches” as Bowser leveled up the box office hit The Super Mario Bros. Movie when it released earlier this year. But the hit song almost never happened. Black says when he signed on to the film, which hit theaters in April, music wasn’t part of the […]
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