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The Screen Actors Guild may have come closer to putting its labor-contract woes behind it, but the union’s yearlong dispute with television and movie studios has left lasting scars. The labor dispute with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers initially centered on how actors would...
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The Screen Actors Guild National Board of Directors has approved its proposed contract with the Alliance of Motion Pictures & Television Producers by a 53% margin and will present the deal to its membership for ratification. The new contract with producers, as approved Sunday night at a meeting of...
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The Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have reached a tentative agreement for a new labor contract, calming fears of a strike that had put Hollywood on edge for nearly a year. The tentative deal contemplates a two-year contract, the Wall Street Journal reported...
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The 16th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be simulcast on TNT and TBS on Jan. 23. The awards will be handed out at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles at 5 p.m. local time, but will air at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Submissions for the awards show open July 13. Nomination ballots will be mailed Nov...
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The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Screen Actors Guild have reached a tentative contract agreement with the American Association of Advertising Agencies and the Association of National Advertisers. The new three-year deal, agreed upon unanimously, includes $36 million in...
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The Screen Actors Guild has hired Damon Romine as the organization’s director of communications, effective April 1. Mr. Romine joins SAG after serving as director of entertainment media for the Gay & *** Alliance Against Defamation. Before that, he was a marketing and communications consultant for...
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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you. Just ask Screen Actors Guild President Alan Rosenberg, who has been the leading hard-liner in the actors’ negotiations with media companies over a new labor contract. Mr. Rosenberg was pilloried for his antagonistic approach to talks...
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The Screen Actors Guild Saturday rejected the "last best" contract offer from media companies, dissolving hopes that a change in leadership at the union would produce a quick resolution to the labor dispute. SAG's board voted 73% to 27% against accepting the contract offer from the Alliance...
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Channeling Larry King once again… CNBC's Rick Santelli Rick Santelli, the CNBC blowhard who moronically lashed out at President Obama’s mortgage rescue plan last week in a much-publicized rant , certainly had every right to speak his mind as he did. And I have every right to never watch CNBC again...
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After three days of talks with the Screen Actors Guild, Hollywood's producers have issued a "last, best and final offer" to actors that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers says contains significant concessions. "The AMPTP made these enhancements in an effort to...
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If America’s headed for another Great Depression, somebody better tell Hollywood’s celebrity class. While millions suffer through unemployment—and the rest of us wonder if we’ll be next—more than a few residents of Hollywoodland apparently have decided that now would be a perfect time to act like complete...
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A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge denied a request for a temporary restraining order that would invalidate the SAG national board majority’s written assent of Jan. 26. If granted, the TRO would have prevented the guild from restarting contract talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television...
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Representatives for the Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers will resume contract negotiations next week, the two sides announced Wednesday. The organizations issued a joint statement declaring talks will take place Tuesday and Wednesday at the AMPTP's Sherman...
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Sunday night’s simulcast of the Screen Actors Guild Awards on TBS and TNT drew the smallest audience since the two networks began airing them together in 2006. TNT, which had telecast the show exclusively from 1998 through 2005, posted a 0.9 rating/2 share among adults 18 to 49 and 2.8 million viewers...
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NBC led the awards count among networks at the 15th annual Screen Actors Guild awards, with the network's "30 Rock" among top honorees. AMC's "Mad Men" also continued its winning ways in the year's awards season. "30 Rock" swept the TV comedy series categories...