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- Actors Union Seeks Strike Vote After Federal Mediation Fails
- After two days of mediated talks failed, the Screen Actors Guild SAG is asking members to approve a strike authorization. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers AMPTP, representing some 350 studios and production companies, and the actors guild met face-to-face this past week for the first time...
- External links 2008-11-23
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- Actors' Union Files Complaint against Theater Owner-Producers.
- By James Bernstein, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 6--The actors union says some shows shouldn't be allowed to go on. Broadway performers are upset that nonunion actors are being used in "Miss Saigon," "Oliver!" and "Oklahoma!,"...
- Research articles 2004-02-06
- Producers And Studios Stick To Their Guns, Reiterate Final Offer To Actors Guild
- As expected, studios and producers aren't backing down in the face of strike threats from the actors' guild. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers reiterated that their final offer of June 30 still stands and are urging the Screen Actors Guild to reverse course and throw its...
- External links 2008-12-04
- John F. Cooke.(appointed executive director of Screen Actors Guild)(Brief Article)
- LOS ANGELES - Former Disney Channel executive John F. Cooke was selected last week as chief executive officer and national executive director of the Screen Actors Guild. The cable veteran took the helm as the actors' union was racing to craft...
- Research articles 2001-07-02
- Equity suing BBC over sales to UK Gold network. (Actors' Equity Association; British Broadcasting Corporation Ltd.)
- LONDON -- The actors' union Equity decided last week to take legal action against the British Broadcasting Corp., claiming the network has no right to sell its programs to the fledgling UK Gold satellite network without permission. If Equity is s LONDON...
- Research articles 1992-11-23
- Theater talks break down in New York between actors, producers.
- Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 29--NEW YORK -- Monday is typically a "dark day" on Broadway for many shows, but it wasn't clear whether theaters would be lit Tuesday night following a breakdown in contract talks between actors and...
- Research articles 2004-06-29
- SAG'S SAGGING FORTUNES.(Screen Actors Guild reports decline in membership earnings)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- The Screen Actors Guild reported an $84 million decline in earnings by its membership in 2000. SAG says its actors nationwide earned $1.59 billion under union contracts in 2000, down ... The Screen Actors Guild reported an $84 million decline in earnings by its...
- Research articles 2001-04-02
- NFL stars stage end run around SAG picket lines;Athletes film Adidas spots as actors' strike intensifies.
- Two high-profile professional football players who are Screen Actors Guild members -- Keyshawn Johnson of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Eddie George of the Tennessee Titans -- broke rank with striking members of their union to film commercials for spo Two high-profile professional football players who...
- Research articles 2000-05-22
- Hollywood actors, producers to hold contract talks in April
- LOS ANGELES AFP — Hollywood stars will start new contract talks in two weeks time, the actors' guild said Wednesday, as the US entertainment industry emerges from a long, costly screenwriters strike. "Screen Actors Guild SAG and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers AMPTP have agreed to...
- Research articles 2008-04-02
- UK Gold's launch in Britain tarnished.
- LONDON -- Following the withdrawal of an injunction threat by the actors' union, Equity, UK Gold was expected to launch here Sunday, Nov. 1. However, troubles are far from over for the satellite channel, which is owned by the British Broadcasting LONDON...
- Research articles 1992-11-02
- GM won't rule out more TV ads without union actors
- DETROIT AP -- Pressured by its high-stakes investment in the Olympics, General Motors has refused to rule out producing more television commercials without striking union actors.
- Research articles 2000-08-24
- Egypt's quota for Arab film stars sparks outrage
- CAIRO AFP — Egypt's announcement of a cap on non-Egyptian actors has sparked outrage in a country which considers itself the Arab world's Hollywood and where regional hopefuls come to make it big. The head of the actors' union, Ashraf Zaki, said last week that Arab artists from outside...
- Research articles 2008-04-28
- Connolly takes union station.(In the News: A LOOK AT THE WEEK IN ENTERTAINMENT)(John P. Connolly as executive director at Actors' Equity Association)(Brief article)
- AFTRA prexy John P. Connolly has been named exec director of live performers' union Actors' Equity Assn., beginning March 19. Position was originally to be filled by Patrick Quinn, who died last fall.
- Research articles 2007-02-12
- Should Sales Reps Start a Union?
- Most sales pundits seem to believe that sales should be a profession. I'm wondering, though, whether it might not make more sense for sales reps to start a union. Not a union in the "look for the union label" way. Maybe something more like the Screen Actors Guild or the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- British Actors' Equity, Electronic Arts sign UK's first interactive contract
- SAN MATEO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--May 1, 1995--Electronic ArtsR Productions Ltd., the UK production arm of Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS), a leading global interactive entertainment software company, and the British Actors' Equity Association, the union of professional performers in the United Kingdom, announced today that the two organizations have successfully negotiated the UK's...
- Research articles 1995-05-01
- Disney, union ink rev-sharing contracts for "Lost" mobisodes.(News)
- Mobile episodes of the hit TV show "Lost'' are once again in the works following an agreement between Walt Disney Co. and three Hollywood unions. Disney's Touchstone Television reached an agreement with the Screen Actors Guild, the Write ...
- Research articles 2006-05-01
- Union walks off set, disrupting P&G ad shoot; SAG seeks IATSE strike support, but action seen as isolated incident.
- In a move that striking ad actors hope will set a precedent -- but which may prove to be an isolated incident -- the International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees stopped work on a Procter & Gamble Co. commercial shoot Oct. 5. In a...
- Research articles 2000-10-09
- A student of film at New York University wished to do a project that involved filming two actors engaged in sexual intercourse in front of her class
- * A student of film at New York University wished to do a project that involved filming two actors engaged in sexual intercourse in front of her class. Her professor was of course fine with the idea, but the university administration denied permission for the project. Naturally, the New York...
- Research articles 2003-12-31
- Broadway actors, theaters reach tentative agreement.
- By Elizabeth Sanger, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 13--NEW YORK -- Broadway's latest production -- "A Tentative Agreement" -- opened to generally positive reviews Monday night. After working for two weeks without a contract, the union representing...
- Research articles 2004-07-13
- Action as Hollywood actors, producers begin contract talks
- LOS ANGELES AFP — Hollywood stars have launched talks with producers over a new contract, with the US entertainment industry still reeling from a costly 100-day screenwriters strike, union sources said Wednesday. The Screen Actors Guild SAG said earlier this month that formal negotiations would begin Tuesday with the...
- Research articles 2008-04-16
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