SAG-AFTRA's national leadership has waded into the bitter dispute over the looming deep cuts in the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan as the union's national board vowed to combat "misinformati…
SAG-AFTRA's national board is requiring its 160,000 members to fully comply with COVID-19 safety protocols on set, saying that they will face disciplinary action if they fail to do so. The b…
SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris will seek re-election as the union's top national officer and the head of the ticket for the Unite for Strength and United Screen Actors Nationwide fac…
Solvan "Slick" Naim is developing an untitled hip-hop movie musical based on William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" for Netflix. The streaming service announced the project on Thursday, a …
Paradigm Talent Agency has hired Ashley Hanley as a talent agent, and promoted three New York-based trainees to agent: Valerie Champeau (talent), Katelyn Dougherty (book publishing) and Rach…
High-profile members of the Writers Guild of America, including Patton Oswalt, David Simon, Shawn Ryan, Michael Schur, John August, Amy Berg, Danny Zuker and many more have gone public with …
In today's film news roundup, Leslie Grace, Melissa Barrera and Aaron Eckhart get major roles, Donna Langley is a commencement speaker, and the Brittania Awards are set for Oct. 25. CASTINGS…
Leaders of Hollywood agents and writers have conducted what's become a deeply disappointing set of negotiations " fueling the town's growing uncertainty over the outcome. As of late Wednesda…
Members of the Writers Guild of America have voted overwhelmingly to support tightened restrictions on their agents " setting up a potentially chaotic scenario a week from now. The vote was …
Leaders of the Writers Guild of America have repeated a threat to sue the major Hollywood talent agencies for alleged conflicts of interest. The leaders issued the threat Saturday during a m…
Sci-fi fantasy magazine Heavy Metal and Pete Townshend are partnering on the Who's uncompleted rock opera "Lifehouse" for a graphic novel, with an eye to developing a movie and television pr…
Kelsey Grammer and Julia Stiles are starring in medical thriller "The God Committee." Austin Stark is directing from his own script. Colman Domingo, Janeane Garofalo and Dan Hedaya are co-st…
Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, and Richard Madden have joined Sam Mendes' World War I drama "1917." DreamWorks Pictures and Universal Pictures announced Thursd…
The Writers Guild of America, which is threatening to require members to fire their agents, has posted a scathing video attacking how major agencies conduct packaging. Titled "Agency Conflic…
The dealmakers appear to be getting nowhere. Negotiators for Hollywood agents and the Writers Guild of America have achieved little progress at their seventh session on Tuesday, with a chaot…
The Writers Guild of America has authorized managers and lawyers to negotiate deals for writers in place of agents " if the guild tells members to fire their agents on April 7. The guild's n…
The Writers Guild of America has made a concession in film financing in its negotiations with Hollywood talent agents " the second in six weeks of talks. WGA West executive director David Yo…
Steven Spielberg has cast Corey Stoll and Brian d'Arcy James as police officers in his movie adaptation of "West Side Story." Stoll will take on the role of Lieutenant Schrank, the New York …
The Broadway musical "Jekyll and Hyde" is getting the movie treatment from Academy Award winner Alexander Dinelaris. Dinelaris, who is writing and producing the adaptation, won an Oscar for …
The Writers Guild of America has singled out Hollywood's largest talent agencies, William Morris Endeavor and Creative Artists Agency, for allegedly soaring profits. The WGA, in an acrimonio…
Playwright David Mamet has expressed sympathy for his longtime friend Felicity Huffman and her husband, fellow actor William H. Macy, following her indictment in a widespread college admi…
More audiences are opting to buy movie tickets online as opposed to in theaters, a new study shows. Online movie ticket purchases rose 18.7% in 2018 and in-theater buying of tickets slid 5.4…
AMC Theatres' Stubs A-List program, the subscription service that allows customers to see three movies a week for $19.95 a month, has hit 700,000 subscribers. That figure is well ahead of th…
Warner Bros. has set a one-week release of "A Star Is Born" with almost 12 minutes of additional footage, including extended musical performances, on 1,150 screens in North America. The film…
The Tribeca Film Festival will open its 18th edition with the world premiere of the HBO Documentary Film “The Apollo,” directed by Roger Ross Williams. The film will debut at the…