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Megan Fox Ignores SAG Halloween Rules, Tags Union In Costume Post

30Oct

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Megan Fox Ignores SAG Halloween Rules, Tags Union In Costume Post

Megan Fox wasn’t going to let the actors strike sour her Halloween plans.Hollywood sent itself into a tizzy earlier this month when SAG-AFTRA strongly urged union members and allies not to dress up as TV and movie characters, in hopes of denying struck studios and streamers any free publicity.Seemingly irked by the guidance, Fox tried to taunt SAG by tagging the guild in photos of the “Kill Bill: Vol. 1”-inspired costume she wore with fiancé Machine Gun Kelly on Friday night.The couple definitely nailed their looks, as Fox transformed into teen assassin Gogo Yubari while Kelly donned Uma Thurman’s iconic blood-stained yellow tracksuit.But the Quentin Tarantino-themed costumes weren’t exactly the sharpest way to clap back at SAG.Seeing as “Kill Bill: Vol. 1” came out a full 20 years ago, F...

Drew Barrymore says she will pause the return of her talk show “until the strike is over”

17Sep

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Drew Barrymore says she will pause the return of her talk show “until the strike is over”

Drew Barrymore announced on Sunday her decision to halt the upcoming season premiere of her namesake daytime talk series, "The Drew Barrymore Show," a reversal that answered to mounting backlash over Barrymore's initial plans to return to the show despite the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes."I have listened to everyone, and I am making the decision to pause the show's premiere until the strike is over," Barrymore said in an Instagram post shared on Sunday morning. "I have no words to express my deepest apologies to anyone I have hurt and, of course, to our incredible team who works on the show and has made it what it is today," she continued. "We really tried to find our way forward. And I truly hope for a resolution for the entire industry very soon." Barrym...

Hollywood strikes taking a toll on California’s economy

5Aug

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Hollywood strikes taking a toll on California’s economy

Los Angeles — Hollywood scribes met with studio executives Friday for the first time since the Writer's Guild of America went on strike just over three months ago. The more than 11,000 film and television writers that make up the WGA have been on strike since early May. In mid-July, they were joined on the picket lines by the approximately 65,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, SAG-AFTRA, a move that has shuttered nearly all scripted Hollywood production. It marks the first time since 1960 that both guilds have been on strike simultaneously. The economic impact has been especially heightened in California, where film and television production accounts for more than 700,000 jobs and nearly $70 billion a year in wages, according to the ...

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson makes 7-figure donation to SAG-AFTRA relief fund amid actors’ strike

26Jul

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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson makes 7-figure donation to SAG-AFTRA relief fund amid actors’ strike

How 1960, 2023 Hollywood strikes compare How the Hollywood strikes of 1960 and 2023 compare 01:58 Superstar Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson made a "milestone" seven-figure donation to a relief fund for actors amid their ongoing strike against major Hollywood studios. Following the announcement that thousands of film and television actors in SAG-AFTRA were going on strike beginning July 13, leaders of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation — a nonprofit group ass...

Striking actors and studios fight over control of performers’ digital replicas

15Jul

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Striking actors and studios fight over control of performers’ digital replicas

The 65,000 Hollywood actors now on strike in the U.S. have much in common with the 11,000 script writers who remain off the job because of a labor dispute with the motion picture studios. Among those shared grievances: concerns that studio executives want to replace them with artificial intelligence.For the many background actors whose names and faces aren't instantly recognizable, the advent of ever more powerful types of AI threatens their ability to make ends meet in what is already a highly stratified industry, according to the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, which is representing the actors. That has put the issue of how studios want to use AI in TV and movies at the center of the fight, along with the impact of streaming services on p...

Stars of “Oppenheimer” walk out of premiere due to actors’ strike

14Jul

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Stars of “Oppenheimer” walk out of premiere due to actors’ strike

The star-studded cast of "Oppenheimer" left the film's London premiere early on Thursday as the Hollywood actors' union staged its first major strike in more than 40 years. Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh walked the red carpet outside the ODEON Luxe Leicester Square cinema Thursday, but then exited before the movie's showing, director Christopher Nolan told the audience inside the theater. "We have to acknowledge, you've seen them earlier on the red carpet," Nolan said of the actors. "Unfortunately, they're off to write their picket signs for what we believe to be an imminent strike by SAG (Screen Actors Guild), joining one of my guilds, the Writers Guild, in the struggle for fair wages for working members of their union." Matt Damon, Em...