As IT: Welcome to Derry hits the ground running on HBO, the show’s two-part debut week comes after the Hollywood strikes forced production to pause for eight months. Co-creator Barbara Muschietti estimated that “90% of three episodes” had been filmed before production shut down amid the WGA and S…

Like everyone in town, Ken Ziffren knows someone new is going to own Warner Bros Discovery soon, but he won't say who – sort of. "Can’t help but mention the pending acquisition of WBD by a company called Paramount, Paramount Skydance or PSKY," the circumspect grand dean of Tinseltown lawyers…

The Writers’ Guild of America is condemning the potentially disastrous impacts of a merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery. In a joint statement from WGA East and West sent Thursday, the guilds expressed their intention to “block the merger” after Paramount’s second bid for WBD was r…

The Writers Guild is reminding members that writing for verticals or micro-dramas — the latest trend that is providing a lifetime to fledging actors and entry-level scribes — is covered by the minimum basic agreement (MBA). In an Instagram post, the WGA said the current MBA includes “terms for…

The Writers Guild of America West has officially selected Michele Mulroney to succeed Meredith Stiehm as President. Mulroney, the guild’s current Vice President, was the sole nominee for the top position. The WGA West says that, of the 2,567 valid ballots that were cast, 2,241 voted in favor of…

More than 300 people answered a last-minute call Thursday to gather outside of Disney in Burbank to protest ABC’s decision to indefinitely pull Jimmy Kimmel Live from the air. Waving signs that read “ABC Bends the Knee to Fascism” and “Even Matt Damon Knows this is F*cked,” members of both the…

UPDATED with latest: The Producers Guild of America and a coalition of Hollywood labor groups have added to the chorus of guilds who have released statements criticizing ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel. “Free speech is fundamental to our democracy,” the PGA wrote Thursday. “It is the lifeblood…

After being expelled from the Writers Guild of America Friday for allegedly violating strike rules, Park Chan-wook and his writing partner Don McKellar have pushed back on the union’s characterization of their actions on The Sympathizer in 2023. An official from Park’s production company Moho…

(Updated with more details) The Robert Downey Jr. produced and starring The Sympathizer came and went last year with a lot less fanfare than many expected due to the talent involved and the fact the miniseries was based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name. However…

The WGA has typed up the timeline for its 78th annual Writers Guild Awards. The guild said in June that its usual dual ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York will be held on Sunday, March 8 — a week before the Oscars — at the JW Marriott and Edison Ballroom, respectively. Today it revealed…

EXCLUSIVE: After five years in the Writers Guild of America’s really bad books, The Irishman producer Randall Emmett has settled his debt with the Guild over not paying four scribes for work on a TV series. Under an agreement with the Guild worked out over the past few weeks, Emmett wired…

UPDATED with statement from Tim Doyle: WGA members on Friday overturned a 2024 censure of Tim Doyle for posting a "racist and offensive depiction of a lynching" on Facebook, Deadline has confirmed. “I was genuinely surprised by the win and moved by the level of support I received from the rank…