Credit always needs to be given where it’s due, and this bulletin comes from Nikke Finke’s “Deadline Hollywood” blog, where she has learned — through her variegated above-the-line sources –that a Federal Mediator has been called in for 10 a.m. Sunday, to meet with both the AMPTP and WGA’s negotiators.
What is not known is if [...]

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The WGA leadership just held their first “official” press conference, after last night’s meeting. Union head
Patric Verrone confirmed that a strike is set for the first minute on Monday: 12:01 a.m.
The president of the WGAE — the eastern branch of the guild — noted there was “still time for
a deal to be made before this [...]

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Productions can no longer afford to leave Hollywood to shoot, thanks to the imploding dollar — and yet, Hollywood itself is shut down!:

Loonie passes $1.07 U.S.
THE CANADIAN PRESS
The Canadian dollar traded at 106.84 cents U.S. this morning after touching a record 107.17 cents U.S. on strong employment data and a rise in oil prices. The [...]

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The “big news” remains, of course, the very fact the strike is happening at all. WGA’s strike captains are apparently meeting Saturday, and it appears Monday would
be the earliest for actual picket lines (nor would the WGA want to wait much longer, from a strategic/psychological standpoint…)
Lacey Rose, writing about the strike for the Forbes website, [...]

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