B. Riley analyst Eric Wold, who has stayed generally bullish on the movie theater business despite its recent trials, is now warning investors that the arrival of a “down box office year” has made him “increasingly cautious.” In a note to clients about his 2024 outlook, Wold wrote that he expects the stock performance of
WGA Strike
“Dave McLean became not only a friend, but family to me during our eight seasons together on Arrow,” Stephen Amell says of The CW superhero series crew member who took his own life on October 9. “It hurts to lose such a vibrant spirit to struggles with mental health.” Vancouver-based genny operator McLean was a member
A slew of shows are scheduled to resume production today following the end of a six-month production shutdown due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Among the shows resuming shooting this week are Law & Order: SVU. “We’re back filming as we speak,” Ice-T, who portrays Detective Odafin ‘Fin’ Tutuola on the NBC crime procedural,
“Why is this guy picking a fight with Mickey Mouse?” Bill Maher asked Ron DeSantis tonight of the poll lagging Florida Governor’s ongoing jurisdictional and legal battles with the Walt Disney Company over the last year. “Well, first of all, they picked a fight with us,” a literally suited and cowboy booted DeSantis defensively replied
EXCLUSIVE: For some writer-producers, the enthusiasm over going back to work this week was dampened by the news that their overall deals, suspended during the WGA strike, are being reinstated but not extended. Nowhere has this been more prevalent than Universal Studio Group, which includes Universal Television and UCP. The company has reinstated all of
Casey Bloys is the first senior executive to address the end of the strike publicly. Chairman and CEO of HBO and Max Content Bloys said that he’s happy that the writers strike is over. “I’m happy it’s past us,” he said at the Code Conference. This comes after the writers strike officially ended this morning
(Updated with more deal details) After almost five months, the Writers Guild’s strike will be officially over at 12:01 am PT Wednesday. “Today, your Negotiating Committee, the WGAW Board and WGAE Council all voted unanimously to recommend the agreement,” the guild said today of tentative agreement worked out with the studios and streamers on Sunday.
Big media shares, which rose in pre-market trading Monday, opened lower at the bell and are still trending down midday after the Writers Guild reached a tentative deal with studios to end their prolonged strike. Renewed market jitters over inflation, interest rates and a potential government shutdown appeared to have offset relief that Hollywood is
UK industry bodies Bectu and the Writers Guild of Great Britain are saluting the tentative agreement reached on Sunday by the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to end the writers strike after nearly five months. They also called for a speedy resolution to the SAG-AFTRA strike. The UK industry has been
The Writers Guild has reached a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to end its strike after nearly five months. The parties today were able to untangle their stalemate over AI and writing room staffing levels. The Gang of Four studio CEOs — Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, Universal’s Donna Langley, Disney’s
As the WGA and the AMPTP begin meeting again to try and hash out a deal, members of the guild are back out on the picket line. Deadline understands that a group of around 35 writers have come out on a Sunday to picket Dancing with the Stars at TV City. It is the latest
Negotiations between the WGA and studios CEOs on a deal to end the nearly five-month long writers’ strike look within sight. The meeting today at the AMPTP Sherman Oaks office, the parties look to have untangled their stalement over AI and writing room staffing levels. With Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, Universal’s Donna Langley, Disney’s Bob Iger
About six weeks after the Writers Guild of America went on strike for the first time in more than 15 years, eight seasons of Suits landed on Netflix. All nine seasons had already been available on Peacock, but the “Netflix effect” rapidly proved itself once again. The streamer unexpectedly struck gold. In its first week
Bill Maher is the latest host to postpone his return to work. Maher said that Real Time with Bill Maher will not, as previously planned, return to HBO on September 22. He joins the likes of Drew Barrymore and The Talk in delaying returning to the studio. Over the weekend, a slew of hosts including
Drew Barrymore is opening up about returning to her daytime talk show amid the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Earlier this year, The Drew Barrymore Show host walked away from her hosting duties at MTV Movie & TV Awards in support of the writers. “I made a choice to walk away from the MTV, film and television
Coming out of the public relation week from Hell, the studios and streamers are looking for the firm that fought off Pizzagate to help them in the war of words against the striking Writers Guild. After literally and figuratively misreading the room with the release earlier this week of their August 11 proposal to the
This is Day 115 of the WGA strike and Day 42 of the SAG-AFTRA strike. “I can’t believe I’m headlining this,” Tony Gilroy quipped Thursday as the last speaker at a Writers Guild picket in New York City honoring screenwriters. The Andor creator-writer and Bourne Legacy screenwriter followed three of his contemporaries — former WGA East President Beau Willimon, Mauricio Zacharias and James
This is Day 113 of the WGA strike and Day 40 of the SAG-AFTRA strike. National Union Solidarity Day kicked off on Tuesday in New York City with several hundred marchers forming a picket line that stretched two full blocks outside the Manhattan corporate offices of Amazon and HBO. Striking writers and actors saw their ranks bolstered on Tuesday
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