On Thursday, the Screen Actors Guild, or SAG-AFTRA, announced that it would join its sister union, the Writers Guild of America—who have already been on the picket line for more than 10 weeks—in a ...
History is a rough guide — and AI is the major wild card — but there’s much to glean from that decades ago walkout in how to make a deal. By Thomas Doherty The “double strike” of 1960 — the last time ...
In 1960, the crumbling infrastructure of the Hollywood studio system was shaken by a one-two strike launched by two essential branches of its workforce — the writers and the actors. Since neither job ...
On July 13, 2023, the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), the union representing Hollywood actors and performers, voted to go on strike against ...
HOLLYWOOD, Florida (WSVN) — A South Florida city has uncovered something from the past, and they had to blast through a wall to get to it. The City of Hollywood is celebrating its centennial. Its ...
As in 2023, a key issue for both the Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild then was residuals — artists wanted a bigger cut of the feature films that had been sold to TV along with health benefits and ...