WGA Fears Disney’s Licensing with OpenAI Will ‘Sanction’ the ‘Theft of Our Work’
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has expressed fear that Disney’s recent licensing deal with OpenAI will sanction the “theft of our work.”

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has expressed fear that Disney’s recent licensing deal with OpenAI will sanction the “theft of our work.”

Members of the Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) were seen protesting outside Disney/ABC studios on Thursday in response to the suspension of late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel.

The Motion Picture Association (MPA) along with several Hollywood unions penned an open letter with Trump ambassador Jon Voight urging the president to enact federal tax credits that could revitalize film and TV production in the United States.

“We pray for Israel and everything going on over there,” Gunderson said. As do all decent people. Unfortunately, decent people are in short supply among the Democrats who run mainstream Hollywood.

Screenwriter Dan Gordon (The Hurricane, Wyatt Earp) has resigned from the Writers Guild of America (WGA), citing the organization’s delayed response to the horrific terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas weeks ago.

In a dramatic reversal, Hollywood’s writers union has apologized for refusing to condemn the Hamas terror attacks in Israel.

The Israeli Writers Guild has expressed its outrage that Hollywood’s Writers Guild of America has been silent about the tattack in Israel.

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is so antisemitic it refuses to condemn savages, gleefully live-streaming the massacre of 1,200 Israeli civilians.

A group of prominent Hollywood writers — including Jerry Seinfeld, Jenji Kohan, Eli Roth, and Sacha Baron Cohen — is blasting their own union for choosing to remain silent on Hamas’ bloody attack on Israel last week, noting that other Hollywood unions have condemned the murderous rampage that has so far claimed the lives of 1,400 Israelis.

Barry Diller, chairman of IAC and Expedia, said the current agreement between the Writers Guild of America and the studios doesn’t go far enough to protect copyright holders from being gobbled up by Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The nearly five-month Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike that shut Hollywood down will reportedly come to a close at midnight now that a new deal has been reached.

Drew Barrymore announced Sunday that she has changed her mind about taping new episodes of her daytime talk show before the Writers Guild of America strike ends.

A group of Hollywood celebrities are suffering serious ridicule after joining together for a series of high-dollar ebay auctions for charity.

People who hate me are at war with people who hate me. How does it get any better than this?

Comedian and HBO late-night host Bill Maher said that the ongoing WGA strike came at the “wrong time,” adding that the Hollywood writers have “no leverage.”

The Labor Department said due to strike activity, motion picture and sound recording jobs dropped by 17,000.

The Entertainment Community Fund has helped 2,600 film or television workers during these strikes, granting $5.4 million as of August 25.

The WGA escalated its fight against the AMPTP in the ongoing strike by calling on the government to regulate for monopolistic practices.

The U.S. film and television industries remain paralyzed by dual strikes by its actors and screenwriters. There’s no foreseeable end — a negotiating session last week involving Hollywood studios and streamers and the striking writers ended with little progress.

The strike-delayed 75th Emmy Awards have a new date — one that places them squarely within Hollywood’s awards season, for a change.

The Hollywood writers’ strike is entering day 100, and the Washington Post has some tales of woe about people who hate us.

The Disney Syndicate has launched a task force to see how artificial intelligence (A.I.) can be used to cut costs, reports Reuters.

These shows have become so insular and divisive, that unless you are the (less than) one percent of Americans who live in the bubble of their elite forest, you don’t even notice that they’ve fallen, that they are gone entirely.

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.

Nolte: Warner Bros. is reportedly looking at rescheduling three of its tentpole films that had been scheduled for release this year.

Hollywood writers are outraged over Universal Studios trimming trees that were providing them shade while they are on strike in the Writers Guild of America (WGA) picket line. Chris Stephens, a comedian and TV writer who has been on strike,

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.

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.

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 Writers Guild of America (WGA) will be taking its strike to Amazon’s biggest sales event of the year: “Prime Day.”

Hollywood is nearing the end of a second month of striking by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) – essentially halting production of scripted programming – with little sign of an agreement looming between the writers and major studios and streaming services.

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.

The “Yellowstone” co-creator Taylor Sheridan has revealed that he might quit TV if he is forced to employ teams of writers — or so-called “writers rooms” — under possible terms imposed by the Writers Guild of America following the strike.

The poor air quality in places like New York due to the ongoing Canadian wildfires has forced the cancelation of top Broadway musicals like Hamilton and the Hollywood writers strike.

ABC released its 2023 fall programming schedule on Tuesday, revealing a slate of game shows, sports, and unscripted content as an obvious response to the ongoing Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike, which has brought traditional Hollywood productions to a standstill.

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is planning to picket Warner Bros. Discovery president and CEO David Zaslav’s commencement speech at Boston University on May 21.

President Joe Biden (D) has officially thrown his support behind Hollywood writers who are currently striking against the studios, saying “storytellers” must be treated with “dignity” and “respect.”
