Striking Hollywood Celebrities, Writers Poised to Receive California Unemployment Benefits
California taxpayers could soon be on the hook for paying unemployment benefits to striking Hollywood actors and writers.

California taxpayers could soon be on the hook for paying unemployment benefits to striking Hollywood actors and writers.
A group of Hollywood celebrities are suffering serious ridicule after joining together for a series of high-dollar ebay auctions for charity.
Striking Hollywood actors and writers escalated their war with the studios this week, participating in a joint march in Los Angeles that clogged the streets of the Hollywood neighborhood as protestors marched Tuesday from Netflix offices to the historic Paramount lot.
Robots and A.I. technology have found their way into Sin City’s service industry, leaving economists and workers concerned about the future.
As its strike against the studios approaches its third month, the union representing Hollywood actors is now rattling its saber at another industry — video game makers. SAG-AFTRA leaders announced Friday that they will seek authorization for a strike against major
The Labor Department said due to strike activity, motion picture and sound recording jobs dropped by 17,000.
Hollywood star Adam Driver has publicly slammed streaming video giants Netflix and Amazon for refusing to meet the demands of striking actors — while praising the independent backers of his new movie Ferrari, acclaimed director Michael Mann’s first film in nearly a decade.
The Entertainment Community Fund has helped 2,600 film or television workers during these strikes, granting $5.4 million as of August 25.
Hollywood star Selena Gomez has been shamed for posting about her Hulu series Only Murders in the Building — a violation of SAG-AFTRA rules that forbid guild members from promoting their shows or movies during the ongoing strike.
Warner Bros. announced Thursday that Dune: Part Two would be postponed until 2024. The official social media account now lists the release date as March 15.
Actor Dax Shepard has claimed he is experiencing a “new fear” of going broke due to the ongoing Hollywood strikes, saying his existential dread includes the possibility of “[losing] everything.”
Tropical Storm Hilary rained on SAG-AFTRA’s parade on Monday, forcing striking Hollywood actors to cease their picketing for one day as the historic storm system moved through the Los Angeles area.
President Joe Biden has so far remained lukewarm toward striking Hollywood actors and writers even though both unions enthusiastically backed his 2020 presidential campaign.
Who is the biggest loser in the ongoing Hollywood labor strikes? The answer appears to be the people of California, with one estimate putting the local economy’s losses at $3 billion in the past 100 days — a figure that is almost certain to skyrocket as the historic strikes drag on with no end in sight.
The strike-delayed 75th Emmy Awards have a new date — one that places them squarely within Hollywood’s awards season, for a change.
The Disney Syndicate has launched a task force to see how artificial intelligence (A.I.) can be used to cut costs, reports Reuters.
A new poll shows that while Americans support the striking Hollywood writers and actors more than the studios, a clear majority of Americans either do not care or feel ambivalent about the situation.
Actress and comedian Sarah Silverman has taken to Instagram to criticize artists who are working under independent film waivers during the Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild strikes, which have shut down most U.S. film and TV productions.
Hayley Atwell, who star’s in “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One,” has said that Hollywood has become “an industry on its knees.”
Nolte: Warner Bros. is reportedly looking at rescheduling three of its tentpole films that had been scheduled for release this year.
The hit Christian series “The Chosen” will continue filming its upcoming fourth season after receiving a waiver from the actors’ union, SAG-AFTRA.
NEW YORK (AP) — To get a sense of just how much animosity is flying around Hollywood these days, watch how Ron Perlman responded to a report that the studios aimed to prolong a strike long enough for writers to lose their homes.
IAC chairman and senior executive Barry Diller said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that the entertainment industry could “collapse” if the writers’ and actors’ strikes are not resolved soon.
Actor Ron Perlman lost his temper yet again when he issued a menacing threat this week to an unnamed Hollywood executive, saying he knows where the executive lives. “Be careful, motherf**ker,” the actor warned.
When people who hate me go to war, my only moral obligation is to hope for a long and destructive war.
The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) authorized a strike on Thursday.
Hollywood stars walked off the job en masse late Thursday after the screen actors’ union SAG-AFTRA failed to reach a new contract with studios, effectively bringing scripted TV and movie production around the country to a screeching halt.
You want to know what would be good for America? If the studios, the WGA, and SAG—three fascist outfits that hate America—went on strike FOREVER.
The SAG-AFTRA union has informed industry publicists to brace themselves for potential actors strike in Hollywood if negotiations fail.
A-list actresses Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and others have all vowed to strike against the studios if they do not meet the proposed demands from the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) union.
Hollywood is giving away woke awards shows for free now and people still don’t want to watch.
The woke Screen Actors Guild Awards is such a ratings failure it’s moving over to YouTube.
Hollywood star Fran Drescher — who is the president of SAG-AFTRA, Hollywood’s largest actors union — has blasted COVID vaccine mandates as an infringement on basic liberties, saying no one should be forced to take the vaccine as a condition for work, travel, dining, or attending public events.
The health plan of Hollywood’s largest union, SAG-AFTRA, has announced it will reimburse out-of-state abortion travel and lodging expenses for plan participants and their dependents, pledging it will “provide access to safe abortion services regardless of where they live or work.”
The 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards will kick off with a “Hamilton” reunion, feature a lifetime achievement award for Helen Mirren and, maybe, supply a preview of the upcoming Academy Awards.
The various unions and studios in Hollywood have agreed to mandate coronavirus booster shots for all vaccinated employees.
An actor from the hit TV series “Yellowstone” is refusing to attend this year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, citing the ceremony’s COVID vaccination mandate.
“The West Wing” star Bradley Whitford is putting pressure on Hollywood’s actors union to mandate proof of COVID-19 vaccination on all sets.
Hollywood’s largest labor union has issued a statement of support for Meghan Markle following her interview this week with Oprah Winfrey, saying that “everyone” deserves union protection. SAG-AFTRA’s comment comes as it continues fighting a class action lawsuit brought by its elderly members who are accusing the guild of kicking them off their health plan in the middle of a pandemic.
After former President Donald Trump resigned from the actor’s union, the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), the Hollywood union placed a permanent ban on him from ever rejoining.