Archive for the ‘Daily Variety’ Category
August 27th, 2008
With the SAG in a stalemate with the majors over its feature-primetime contract, the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists have opted for a six-month extension of their commercials contract until March 31. SAG and AFTRA, which plan to negotiate jointly on the ad deal, made the disclosure Wednesday [...]
Tags: AFTRA, Commercial Contract, SAG
Posted in Actors, AFTRA, Auditions, Big Media, Commercials, Daily Variety, Residuals, SAG, Voice Actor, WGA | 1 Comment »
July 30th, 2008
It looks like warring factions inside SAG have found some common ground vs the AMPTP. Finally, all the SAG board agrees that allowing SAG sanctioned, non-Union production and no residuals for certain so called new media production is a bad idea for actors. Daily Variety reporter and AMPTP fanboy, Dave McNary lays it all out [...]
Tags: AFTRA, AMPTP, CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS, Daily Variety, New Media, NOW MEDIA, SAG, Strike
Posted in Acting, Actors, AFTRA, Alan Rosenberg, AMPTP, Big Media, Daily Variety, Hollywood, NOW MEDIA, Producers, Residuals, SAG, Tommy G. Kendrick | No Comments »
July 28th, 2008
Rank Title Weekend Gross 1 The Dark Knight (2008) $75.6M $314M 2 Step Brothers (2008) $30M $30M 3 Mamma Mia! (2008) $17.9M $62.7M 4 The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008) $10.2M $10.2M 5 Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) $9.41M $60.2M 6 Hancock (2008) $8.2M $206M 7 WALL·E (2008) $6.35M $195M 8 [...]
Tags: Box Office, Daily Variety, DARK KNIGHT, Hollywood Reporter, Residuals
Posted in Box Office, Box Office Mojo, Daily Variety, DARK KNIGHT, Film Distribution, Producers, SAG | No Comments »
July 21st, 2008
No movement. That’s all there is to report on the ongoing standoff between SAG and the AMPTP. Trade publications put attendance at Saturday’s SAG membership meeting in Hollywood at 450 – 750, depending on which industry rag you want to believe. The producer-friendly Daily Variety article actually has the attendance at the upper end of [...]
Tags: AFTRA, AMPTP, CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS, New Media, NOW MEDIA, SAG, Strike
Posted in Actors, AFTRA, Alan Rosenberg, AMPTP, Daily Variety, Hollywood, Hollywood Reporter, NOW MEDIA, Producers, Residuals, SAG, Strike | No Comments »
July 21st, 2008
One of the best reviewed films of the year had a stunning opening this weekend with an estimated take in excess of $155 million while playing on 4,366 screens. Apparently that wasn’t enough screens because the weekend was a virtual sellout and HOLLYWOOD REPORTER published a report of tickets selling on Ebay for around $50. [...]
Tags: Box Office, Daily Variety, DARK KNIGHT, Hollywood Reporter, Residuals
Posted in Big Media, Box Office, Box Office Mojo, Daily Variety, DARK KNIGHT, Deadline Hollywood Daily, Hollywood Reporter, Producers | No Comments »
July 18th, 2008
The following story on Amazon.com‘s new Video on Demand service appears in newspapers across the country today, 7/18/08. This is just one more example of where film and video distribution is headed. And it is one more example of why the AMPTP is trying to force feed a bad deal on Screen Actors Guild members. As [...]
Tags: Amazon.com, AMPTP, New Media, NOW MEDIA, SAG, Streaming Video, Video On Demand
Posted in AFTRA, Amazon.com, AMPTP, Big Media, Daily Variety, Filmmakers, New Media, NOW MEDIA, Producers, Residuals, Streaming Video, Strike, Tommy G. Kendrick, Writers | 1 Comment »
July 17th, 2008
While we wait for a resolution of the current contract ‘negotiations’ between SAG and the AMPTP, a few show biz reports give a look under the tent at why SAG is so concerned about issues like clip usage and residuals from new media. As an example, look at the deal announced this week between YouTube [...]
Tags: AMPTP, CLIP USAGE, LIONSGATE, Residuals, SAG, YOUTUBE
Posted in Actors, AFTRA, AMPTP, Daily Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Producers, Residuals, SAG, Strike, Tommy G. Kendrick, WGA, Writers | No Comments »
July 16th, 2008
In what is being termed a ‘sidebar’ meeting, an off the record meeting with an unspecified agenda, the AMPTP has agreed to meet with SAG negotiators today to discuss the current contract stalemate. AMPTP insists that the offer on the table is in fact their ‘last best final’ offer and that there will be no [...]
Tags: AMPTP, Daily Variety, Deadline Hollywood Daily, SAG, Strike
Posted in Actors, AFTRA, Alan Rosenberg, AMPTP, Daily Variety, Producers, SAG, Strike | No Comments »
June 8th, 2008
If there were any doubt that SAG leadership would do anything to avoid asking SAG membership for a strike authorization vote, just look at the course the SAG and AMPTP negotiations are taking. A story in Saturday’s Daily Variety online lays out the scenario: In a move that will unnerve Hollywood, the longtime feud between [...]
Tags: AFTRA, AMPTP, CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS, SAG, SAG FIGHTS WITH AFTRA, Strike
Posted in AFTRA, AMPTP, Daily Variety, Filmmakers, Hollywood, Producers, Residuals, SAG, SAG Membership, Strike, Tommy G. Kendrick | No Comments »
June 4th, 2008
As negotiations begin again with the AMPTP, SAG is using one tool at its disposal that might put some pressure on the producers organization to settle, a waiver available only to indie productions. By signing the SAG waiver the production company agrees to comply with the eventual deal hammered out with the AMPTP. This deal [...]
Tags: AFTRA, AMPTP, CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS, SAG, SAG Waivers, Strike
Posted in Actors, AMPTP, Daily Variety, Filmmaking, Louisiana Film Production, Producers, SAG, Strike, Tommy G. Kendrick | 3 Comments »