More from Katie Kilkenny
The Hollywood Labor Chief Pay Chart: Top Union Leaders’ Compensation Revealed
2023 proved to a be a landmark year for Hollywood labor as actors and writers called a historic double strike in the name of reshaping a transforming industry. As that battle was waged over issues like AI and compensation in the streaming age, chief negotiators for the striking unions, as well as the directors’ union, […]
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‘Child Star’ Documentary Trailer Showcases the Joys and Toll of Young Celebrity: “It Came at a Price”
“I wouldn’t end up where I am had I not made all the choices leading up to this point. But it came at a price,” Demi Lovato says at the end of the new trailer for Child Star. At a time when documentaries like Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, Showbiz Kids […]
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Writers Guild Members Join Union Boycott of Beverly Hills Hotels
Around 40 Hollywood writers have joined a hotel union boycott of two Los Angeles hotels, the Cameo Beverly Hills by Hilton and the Beverly Hills Marriott. The Good Place creator Mike Schur, Emily in Paris writer and co-executive producer Grant Sloss, The Simpsons writer and executive producer Ian Maxtone-Graham and Abbott Elementary supervising producer and writer […]
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SAG-AFTRA Says 80 Video Games Signed to Deals During Strike Against Major Studios
As SAG-AFTRA’s video game strike continues, the union stated on Thursday that 80 games were signed to agreements with the labor group that will allow them to continue work with union performers during the labor dispute. By signing on to either SAG-AFTRA’s interim agreement or tiered-budget agreement, developers on these titles can employ SAG-AFTRA performers […]
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Production Assistants Launch Ambitious Bid for Unionization With LiUNA
A veteran Hollywood union is backing an ambitious push to unionize film and television production assistants, a move that has the potential to reshape how many entry-level creatives break into the industry. The Hollywood branch of Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA), Local 724, is partnering with the grassroots group Production Assistants United to […]
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Teamsters Casting Negotiations Pause Without Deal
Negotiations over a new contract for Teamsters-represented casting professionals paused on Friday without a deal, according to the union. Bargaining sessions for around 700 casting workers based in Los Angeles and New York were originally set to conclude at the end of the week, but the parties did not resolve their remaining issues by that […]
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Abortion Storylines on TV Impact Viewers “Across All Political Leanings,” Study Finds
Medically accurate storylines about abortion can help educate and inform viewers “across all political leanings,” according to a new study from USC Annenberg’s Norman Lear Center and UC San Francisco’s Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health program. In their paper “Abortion Depictions on Television: Impact on Audience Knowledge and Mobilization,” researchers surveyed 1,016 adult television […]
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Gary Coleman Documentary Director Hopes Film Can “Cut Through Some of the Misinformation”
Upon his death in 2010 at age 42, the former Diff’rent Strokes star Gary Coleman was memorialized in many obituaries in a familiar way — as a brilliant child actor who encountered personal difficulties later on in life. The new documentary Gary, on Peacock, seeks to bring a fresh perspective to his well-publicized story. Helmed […]
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Top Movie Piracy Ring Taken Down, Major Studios’ Enforcement Group Claims
An anti-piracy coalition composed of major studios in the U.S. and across the globe is claiming victory against Fmovies, a significant streaming operation based in Vietnam. On Thursday, the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment revealed that it had worked with Hanoi police to shutter Fmovies and affiliated sites, which together made up “the largest pirate […]
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“You Don’t Want to Overdo the Hollywood”: Political Insiders on How Harris Campaign Is Cautiously Deploying Celebrities
To hear political insiders in Hollywood describe it, stars began crawling out of the woodwork to support the Democratic Party after sitting President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race in late July and handed the 2024 baton to Kamala Harris. But some strategists and observers say that, so far, Harris and Tim Walz’s […]
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The Animation Guild and Studios Do Not Reach an Agreement, Add Negotiating Dates in September
The Animation Guild and Hollywood studios have scheduled additional negotiations dates for September after concluding a week of bargaining without reaching a deal, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The union — which represents more than 5,000 animation workers — and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers previously only allotted one week, ending Friday, […]
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Video Game Union Performers Call for AI Protections at Disney Picket: “This Is Not Something We Can Wait For”
It was a scene that produced a sense of déjà vu: a line of performers carrying SAG-AFTRA signs and walking in circles under the blazing Burbank summer sun. This time, however, the group wasn’t film and television actors calling on studios to cede more ground on an array of demands like greater compensation in the […]
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