Screen Actors Guild

Crashing Private Events Is Legal; Proposed California Law Would Change That

​The California legislature this summer will consider a bill that would make it a misdemeanor to crash private events uninvited. A loophole in state law has made it difficult to prosecute people who sneak into events -- particularly Hollywood awards shows -- as trespassers. As it stands they'r ... More >>

Screen Actors Guild Jumps into Newsweek Fray

Now the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), the nation's largest labor union for working actors, has jumped into the Newsweek fray.Kevin ScanlonSAG rep. Jason Stuart​Yesterday, SAG National LGBT Actors Committee chair Jason Stuart condemned a recent Newsweek column that questioned gay actors' abilities to ... More >>

Film, Music Industries Whine To White House About Online Piracy

​Several film and music industry groups urged the White House this week to do all it can to stop online pirates from taking a bite of Hollywood's bottom line. The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the Directors Guild of America, the Screen Actors Guild, the Motion Picture ... More >>

Eating With the Stars at the SAG Awards

Barbara HansenSuzanne Goin has boxed up a star-studded meal. ​You can eat with the stars who will be attending the Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center this Saturday. No need to wrangle a ticket, which would probably be impossible anyway. All you have to do i ... More >>

Piracy, Pickets and Peter Bart

Unrest on the studio, union and trade fronts

LA Weekly's Interview with Will Oldham: On Acting, Hollywood, the Nature of the Press, and Facebook

Yesterday Will Oldham, aka Bonnie Prince Billy, did an instore performance at Amoeba Records on Sunset, and West Coast Sound's Nikki Darling was there to report on the scene: Will Oldham gets French pedicures and shows them off while wearing flip-flops and Hawaiian board shorts. That's the first ... More >>

Academy Gets Nominations Wrong — Again

It's far more riveting to watch upheavals at SAG and Variety

A Macro Assault on Hollywood Unions July 2, 2008

The mother of all strikes is yet to come

Colored Views

The results of the Multi-Ethnic Media Coalition's eighth annual diversity "report cards" came out last week and they weren't promising. The reports covered progress made in network television  during the 2007-2008 season by writers, actors and producers who were Latinos, Asians and Native Ameri ... More >>

In the Strike Zone

Is the unthinkable about to happen again?

Wall Street Crisis Begins to Hurt Media Moguls

Be afraid. Be very afraid

Hollywood's Double Whammy: SAG's Big Election and DreamWorks' New Deal

Two major shakeups

Hollywood: Damaged on Wall Street, Weak in Prime Time and Ignoring Tina Brown

A world of hurt

In the Beginning: Hip-Hop at the Movies

Rapper's delight

Young Turks Purge at CAA, Sleazy Bribe at WGA, Sour Grapes at ABC

When upheaval at the L.A. Times is the good news

Ellen Page Defects, Fox's Archive Withers and the Moguls Hit Ketchum, Idaho

Inglorious Bastards and ungrateful bitches

Calm Down. SAG Will Not Be a WGA Strike Sequel.

But when will Hollywood ever get back to work?

The Details the Moguls Don't Want You to Know

Hollywood Comings, Goings & Just Plain Bad Parking

The latest on the NYT, CAA, HBO and Oprah

SAG vs. AFTRA Is the Worst Show in Hollywood

Can't they act like they get along

Dance Camera West Celebrates Choreography on Celluloid

Motion pictures

Bob Nuchow: Screen Gem

Capitol Films' Crash and Burn

The company's cash crunch is shutting down indie after indie

AMPTP Walks From SAG Talks

Repeat of big-media arrogance toward WGA

What's Hot: Talks Between Actors and Producers Look DOA

Meanwhile, pilots are vibrantly alive

When Hollywood Goes After White Whales

Thar she blows

Stroll of Fame

Following the WGA parade through Hollywood.

Just the Facts, Man

Our readers write

Secret Agent Men

How the tenpercenters formed a road map to peace during the strike’s dark days

WGA's Biggest Enemy

A fed up writers’ union hopes to appeal to a sense of fair play. In Hollywood

The Scars of Oscars

Envy and spite will determine Academy Award winners

The Storyteller

Ed Meese on the Gipper and Gitmo

On the Road with Bernadette

Present: A day in the life of a working actor

The Short Fake Life of Charles Hampton

Bye Bye, Bonzo

Reagan was double-dealing long before Iran-contra

Page Turner

Hollywood screenwriters get ready for talks

Letters

Throw the Bums Out

Canadian Bacon

Hollywood fights back on runaway production

You'll Never Eat Ass in This Town Again

SAG Settles With Christy

That's Entertainment?

Our Kodak moment

Spiked in Hollywood

Dave Robb walks away — again

Tinsel-Town Rebellion

Writers, moguls and Hollywood’s day of reckoning

Letters

Turn the Channel

Why those striking actors just can’t get respect — or a contract

Letters

Paying Your Dues

Preppie Living Wage

'Thees Ees Zee Reel Shit!'

Remembering Claude Bessy, a.k.a. Kickboy Face