drip, drip, drip it goes… How long can General Electric hold out, trying to bend the entertainment biz to its flinty will?
From the WGA announcement:
Los Angeles - The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has reached a comprehensive independent agreement with Spyglass Entertainment. The company finances, produces, and distributes theatrical motion pictures, including some of the [...]

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so the chess match continues…
WGA STRIKE UPDATE: No Waiver for Academy Awards
By Ben Grossman — Broadcasting & Cable
In the wake of the cancellation of the traditional Golden Globe Awards ceremony, Writers Guild of America West president Patric Verrone reiterated Tuesday that he does not anticipate granting the Academy Awards a waiver unless the striking writers [...]

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Here’s the latest news over the transom, about one of the remaining “major award shows:”
Union might keep writers from Grammys
By SOLVEJ SCHOU
LOS ANGELES - The striking Hollywood writers guild likely will bar its members from working on next month’s Grammys telecast, a union spokesman said Tuesday.
Grammy organizers have yet to ask for a waiver allowing [...]

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Just passed along to BTL from one of the TV fan blogs — contains useful information…:

Okay after much research and a couple of phone calls I have finally figured out some helpful emails and phone numbers that anyone working in the
industry can use
By far the most important and the first place anyone (writer, crew member, [...]

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