#Lily Tomlin, Marta Kauffman Call for Greater Industry Protections at Abortion Rights Picket: “This Is a Discrimination Issue”

#Lily Tomlin, Marta Kauffman Call for Greater Industry Protections at Abortion Rights Picket: “This Is a Discrimination Issue”

Lily Tomlin, Gloria Allred, Marta Kauffman and top creatives called for entertainment companies to enact stronger health and safety protections for employees working in states that have banned or criminalized abortion at a reproductive health care-themed picket in front of Amazon Studios on Friday. “Our message to the studios is this: It’s not acceptable to…

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#Robert De Niro Drama ‘Zero Day,’ With DGA President Lesli Linka Glatter Directing, Shuts Down Production  

#Robert De Niro Drama ‘Zero Day,’ With DGA President Lesli Linka Glatter Directing, Shuts Down Production  

Netflix’s Zero Day, Robert De Niro’s first scripted TV role, has shut down production amid the ongoing strike by the Writers Guild of America. The six-episode drama is being directed and exec produced by Lesli Linka Glatter, who helms all the episodes. Glatter is also the president of the Directors Guild, which has already reached…

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#Writers Guild Members Get Candid About What Makes This Writers Strike Different Than Previous Ones: “We’re Mad”

#Writers Guild Members Get Candid About What Makes This Writers Strike Different Than Previous Ones: “We’re Mad”

Zoanne Clack, Greg Iwinski and Julie Plec sat down with their fellow writer Beau Willimon for an ATX Television Festival panel to discuss this year’s writers strike and how it’s different than previous ones. “Back then, we were nervous about what was ahead,” said Plec, who created Vampire Diaries and its spinoffs The Originals and…

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#Los Angeles City Councilmembers Introduce Resolution in Support of WGA Strike

#Los Angeles City Councilmembers Introduce Resolution in Support of WGA Strike

Los Angeles City councilmembers introduced a resolution Friday in support of the Writers Guild of America amid the ongoing writers strike. Councilmembers Hugo Soto-Martínez and Katy Yaroslavsky were among those calling on studios and streamers to return to the negotiating table to meet writers’ demands. “This is a fight for the future of Hollywood,” Councilmember Hugo…

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#Taika Waititi, Eva Longoria and Niecy Nash-Betts Talk Leading the Diversity Charge at The Hollywood Reporter’s Raising Our Voices Luncheon

#Taika Waititi, Eva Longoria and Niecy Nash-Betts Talk Leading the Diversity Charge at The Hollywood Reporter’s Raising Our Voices Luncheon

“As you can tell, there’s a writers strike on, so I didn’t write shit,” Taika Waititi joked upon grabbing the mic at The Hollywood Reporter’s second annual Raising Our Voices luncheon on Wednesday, teasing he initially had chatGPT take a first pass at his speech and it quickly pointed out Hollywood’s issues in diversity and…

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