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The angriest filmmaking fights that I've witnessed over the years have not been about cost or cast; they were about length. The movies were too long but so were the fights. I re-lived some of them this week when I saw Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flo…

Paddy Cosgrave, the CEO and cofounder of annual tech conference Web Summit, has resigned after his comments on the Israel-Hamas war led Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon to cancel their participation. "Unfortunately, my personal comments have become a distraction from the event, and our team, our sponsors…

Former SAG president Melissa Gilbert has blasted a SAG-AFTRA message that urged its members not to dress up as characters from struck companies this Halloween. SAG-AFTRA published a post on its website encouraging members to "celebrate Halloween this year while also staying in solidarity." The guild…

Thanks, George. But your proposal to take the cap off union dues in order to end SAG-AFTRA’s strike isn’t legally compatible with the union’s contract. So said SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher in a video posted to Instagram in response to George Clooney and other A-List actors‘ offer to pay more…

I think Walt would be grumpy. This is the week when the media celebrates the Magic Kingdom's 100th birthday, but Walt Disney were around today, I think he'd cringe at the state of guild negotiations, fights with politicians and jumps in theme park prices (or streamer fees). Having gained…

As actors continue to struggle in negotiations with the entertainment companies, it's probably worth noting a point that doesn't get advertised much. That is, performers—living, breathing human beings who appear on movie screens—are far less influential than they were just a few short years ago at…

"Politics is poisonous – even in making movies." Those were the words of William Goldman, the gifted screenwriter, who was finishing his script for All the President’s Men in 1972, when his director told him to quit writing. It seems Robert Redford, the…

In a podcast interview on WTF With Marc Maron that aired Thursday, Larry Charles talked about his creative thought process and how that approach works within the Hollywood system. Charles, a veteran writer/director of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, is a longtime collaborator with Sacha Baron…

Francis Ford Coppola has spoken out on a recent trend — women asking men in their lives how often they think about the Roman Empire. The auteur revealed that he often thinks about the empire's rise and fall, and then tied Roman history as the inspiration for his upcoming, self-financed film, Megalopo…

The writers have settled. Actors and companies return to the table this week. The awards season is saved (almost, we hope). This could finally be it. Do we dare even say it? The year of The Great Oscar Comeback. Everyone with a stake in the Academy Awards has watched with chagrin as the Oscar…

With guild agreements being signed and production ramping up, Hollywood hopefully awaits a moment of youthful innovation. Oops: The most newsworthy films set for imminent release are directed by filmmakers in their 80s – grizzled veterans who understand…

UPDATE Robert De Niro's PR person Stan Rosenfield said the actor’s just-completed Uber commercial “has nothing to do with his his Taxi Driver character whatsoever. This rumor is based on a fictitious report from the UK several days ago.” PREVIOUS: Writer-director Paul Schrader has reacted to a report…