Christopher Nolan is a busy man. When he's not working on "The Odyssey," his sprawling adaptation of Homer's epic, he is tackling all the other challenges facing Hollywood as the new preside…
The staff of the Writers Guild of America West has voted to authorize a strike, just weeks before the union is due to sit down with the major studios. The union staffers, who organized last …
Call it the Tilly tax. In the future, studios that use synthetic actors in place of humans might have to pay a royalty into a union fund. That's one of the ideas kicking around as SAG-AFTRA …
Blake Lively and her "It Ends With Us" castmates documented numerous concerns with director and co-star Justin Baldoni, alleging that boundaries were repeatedly crossed during production, ac…
Timothy Busfield will get a court hearing next Tuesday on whether he should be held in jail pending a trial on child sex abuse charges. Busfield remains at the Metropolitan Detention Center …
Timothy Busfield made his first appearance in court on Wednesday on charges of sexual abuse against a 7-year-old boy on the set of "The Cleaning Lady." Busfield appeared before Judge Felicia…
Timothy Busfield has turned himself into police after a warrant was issued Friday accusing him of sexual abuse of a minor. Busfield, who starred in "Thirtysomething," "The West Wing," and "F…
Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed two bills backed by SAG-AFTRA that will regulate the use of "synthetic" AI performers in New York. One bill will require disclosure when an AI performer …
President Trump has granted a pardon to Tim Leiweke, the live entertainment executive accused of rigging a bid to build an arena on the campus of the University of Texas. In a proclamation s…
Salvador Plasencia, the doctor who supplied ketamine to Matthew Perry in the weeks before his overdose death in 2023, was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in federal prison. Plasencia apolog…
The health fund for the Writers Guild of America has taken a brutal hit in the last two years, losing $122 million as costs increased while work slowed. Much of that decline is due to the 20…
Justin Baldoni's lawyers are making a bid to throw out Blake Lively's sexual harassment lawsuit before a federal trial set for next March. In a motion for summary judgment filed Wednesday ni…
Nick Ritacco started acting in New York and appeared on "Law & Order: SVU" and "Homeland." Since moving to L.A., his career has taken off " in an unexpected way. In the last two years, h…
Four years after the fatal shooting on the set of "Rust," the man who supplied prop guns and blanks to the production has sued Alec Baldwin in a bid to clear his name. Seth Kenney, the owner…
A jury on Friday rejected "9-1-1" actor Rockmond Dunbar's claim that he was fired from the show due to his religious conviction against getting the COVID-19 vaccine. The eight-member federal…
President Trump on Thursday offered his full support to Brendan Carr, the FCC chairman, and warned that broadcasters who criticize him could lose their licenses. Trump was asked about "Jimmy…
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has threatened to take action against ABC after Jimmy Kimmel suggested in a monologue that Charlie Kirk's assassin is "one of them," meaning one of "the MAGA gang."…
Sean Astin, the star of "Rudy," "Goonies" and "The Lord of the Rings," was elected Friday to be president of SAG-AFTRA, succeeding Fran Drescher. Astin was part of a slate dubbed "The Coalit…
Jennifer Gonring, the co-founder of the premier Hollywood political consultancy, Gonring Lin Spahn, has stepped down as CEO and launched an independent firm, Principle Partner. As part of th…
The Writers Guild of America West has been accused of violating labor law by firing a staffer who helped organize guild employees. The Pacific Northwest Staff Union won voluntary recognition…
Blake Lively wants Justin Baldoni to pay millions of dollars for filing a frivolous defamation suit against her, in a test of a California law aimed at protecting sexual harassment victims w…
On August 8, the WGA announced that Director Park Chan-wook and I had been expelled from membership for our work on "The Sympathizer," an HBO show that had been in postproduction during the …
Defense lawyers for director Carl Rinsch intend to argue that he was in a "state of psychosis" when he was making "White Horse," and therefore cannot be found guilty of defrauding Netflix ou…
California's efforts to jumpstart the entertainment economy are showing early signs of success, as the California Film Commission saw a 400% spike in applications for tax credits in July. Th…
Fran Drescher is exiting the stage as president of SAG-AFTRA after a consequential tenure in which she led the union's 118-day strike against the major studios. But one of her key achievemen…