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TopicHollywood Writers’ strike

Topic: Hollywood Writers’ strike

Disney sees higher costs to create content after Hollywood pay raises

The media conglomerate expects its fiscal 2024 capital expenditure to total roughly $6 billion and spend on produced and licensed content to be about $25 billion.

After agreement with producers, 148-day-long Hollywood writers’ strike officially ends

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) on Sunday signed a tentative deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.

Striking writers, Hollywood studios to meet on Sunday as talks stretch on

Writers walked off the job in early May after no consensus was reached regarding compensation, minimum staffing of writers' rooms & the use of artificial intelligence.

WGA striking writers to meet Hollywood studios today, negotiate five-month standoff

The WGA went on strike in May after negotiations reached an impasse over compensation, minimum staffing of writers' rooms and the role of artificial intelligence.

Emmys 2023 likely to be postponed to next year due to Hollywood strikes

The ceremony was slated to be telecast on 18 September, and the LA Times reported that a January date is contingent on a resolution to disputes between studios & guilds.

Hollywood striking union files grievance against NBCUniversal for blocking picket area

The unions said NBCUniversal infringed its freedom to picket and endangered its members by obstructing a public sidewalk next to the company’s studio lot in California.

Hollywood studios offer actors over $1 billion in compensation ahead of strike

The SAG-AFTRA, which represents over 1,60,000 actors, stunt performers & others, called for a strike last week after union negotiators stated that they were unable to reach an agreement.

‘To appease a mighty CEO’: GQ gets flak for pulling article on Warner Bros chief David Zaslav

The article by freelance film critic Jason Bailey was published on the website last Monday and was heavily edited before eventually being taken down.

Hollywood likely to face second strike as talks with SAG-AFTRA actors union near deadline

A SAG-AFTRA strike, representing 160,000 actors, would push the heat on Hollywood studios already grappling with a nearly two-month work halt by the Writers Guild of America.

Writer’s strike hits small businesses in LA and beyond, Hollywood economy suffers

One rough measure of the current toll is the number of permits issued for filming in Los Angeles. It has fallen 56% from a year ago, according to permitting organization FilmLA.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.