Tag: WGA

WGA Gets Emmys to Broadcast Variety Series Writing Award

Fist bump. Photo: Saturday Night Live via YouTube Update January 3, 2024: Solidarity forever! Fox has listened to the WGA and will be airing the Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series award during the Primetime Emmys. The WGA, Fox, and the Television Academy issued a joint statement announcing the 26th category for the 75th Emmy… Continue reading WGA Gets Emmys to Broadcast Variety Series Writing Award

WGA & AMPTP Issue Joint Statement on Negotiations

Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images The WGA and AMPTP resumed negotiations today, and it looks like things may be looking up. Both sides released a joint statement, which simply read “The WGA and AMPTP met for bargaining today and will meet again tomorrow.” It’s a far cry from the competing narratives via press release that previous… Continue reading WGA & AMPTP Issue Joint Statement on Negotiations

2023 SAG and WGA Strike Picket-Line Updates Week 9

Do you? Photo: Franco Origlia/Getty Images Welcome to Vulture’s Strike Recap, or Strike-cap, if you will, a regular rundown of all the biggest news from the WGA and SAG picket lines. Happy (belated) Labor Day! Strikers had a long weekend to ponder some news items that dropped last week, including this: A Gallup poll found that 72 percent… Continue reading 2023 SAG and WGA Strike Picket-Line Updates Week 9

2023 SAG and WGA Strike Picket-Line Updates Week 8

Photo: Hollywood To You/Star Max/GC Images Welcome to Vulture’s Strike Recap, or Strike-cap, if you will, a regular rundown of all the biggest news from the WGA and SAG picket lines. AMPTP had a rough week. How rough? It hired a crisis PR firm, and now the PR firm is dodging bad PR for accepting the job. It… Continue reading 2023 SAG and WGA Strike Picket-Line Updates Week 8

2023 SAG and WGA Strike Picket-Line Updates Week 7

Roasted. Photo: Hollywood To You/Star Max/GC Images Welcome to Vulture’s Strike Recap, or Strike-cap, if you will, a regular rundown of all the biggest news from the WGA and SAG picket lines. The AMPTP is set to meet with the WGA again sometime this week. “Last Friday, 102 days after they walked away from the bargaining table and… Continue reading 2023 SAG and WGA Strike Picket-Line Updates Week 7

TIFF 2023 Releases Lineup Amid SAG and WGA Strikes

They’re fucking identical twins! Photo: A24 Festival season is not in a good place. With both the Screen Actors Guild and the Writers Guild striking simultaneously, attendance will likely be low. That means no Lady Gaga getting out of a boat and no Elle Fanning in a new version of Dior’s New Look. In solidarity… Continue reading TIFF 2023 Releases Lineup Amid SAG and WGA Strikes

2023 SAG and WGA Strike Picket-Line Updates Week 6

Photo: Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock for SAG-AFTRA Welcome to Vulture’s Strike Recap, or Strike-cap, if you will, a regular rundown of all the biggest news from the WGA and SAG picket lines. Last Wednesday, August 9, was Day 100 of the 2023 writers’ strike. According to CBS News, this is now the longest strike in WGA history. As WGA board… Continue reading 2023 SAG and WGA Strike Picket-Line Updates Week 6

WGA Receives New AMPTP Offer, Will Respond Next Week

Photo: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images The AMPTP proposed during its date with the WGA on Friday — at least in the sense that more than 100 days into the writers’ strike, the studios brought a counterproposal to the negotiating table. “We will evaluate their offer and, after deliberation, go back to them with the WGA’s… Continue reading WGA Receives New AMPTP Offer, Will Respond Next Week

WGA, AMPTP to Resume Negotiations After 101 Days on Strike

Photo: David Livingston/Getty Images It appears the WGA and AMPTP’s meeting to talk about meeting successfully yielded … a meeting. On the 101st day of the writers’ strike, the guild told its members that AMPTP lead negotiator Carol Lombardini has invited the WGA negotiating committee to resume talks. “We expect the AMPTP to provide responses… Continue reading WGA, AMPTP to Resume Negotiations After 101 Days on Strike