LOS ANGELES AFP — US production studios warned Monday that Hollywood's entertainment industry "is now in a de facto strike" after they presented a final offer to the Screen Actors Guild SAG as a labor contract was set to expire at midnight. "Our industry is now in a de...
First Use of Voice Recognition Technology for Gender Targeting at This Scale MENLO PARK, Calif. & ATLANTA -- Jingle Networks, Inc., the leader in free voice search and operator of 1-800-FREE411, and Turner Network Television TNT today announced details of TNT's recent success promoting the NBA Playoffs using 1-800-FREE411's...
LOS ANGELES AFP — Hollywood actors will spend an additional week negotiating with producers over future contract terms, the groups said Wednesday as the US entertainment industry still reels from a costly 100-day screenwriters strike. "Screen Actors Guild SAG and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers AMPTP...
BERLIN AFP — British-born film star Daniel Day-Lewis blasted the media "circus" Friday surrounding the death of Heath Ledger after his moving dedication of a top award to the Australian actor last month. Day-Lewis, 50, who was at the Berlin Film Festival, where his new picture "There Will Be...
LOS ANGELES AFP — Academy Awards organizers expressed confidence on Tuesday that this year's Oscars would take place as planned, as Hollywood digested the bombshell cancellation of the Golden Globes. Bruce Davis, the executive director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, said Oscars officials were hopeful...
LOS ANGELES AFP — Harrowing drama "Into the Wild" dominated the nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Awards here Thursday, which saw notable snubs for Oscar hopefuls "Atonement" and Johnny Depp. "Into the Wild," based on the true story of a college graduate who ventures into the Alaskan wilderness...
Seth Oster has been named executive vice president of communications for the Motion Picture Association of America. His offices will be based in Encino. Oster is the former communications chief for the Screen Actors Guild.
LOS ANGELES AFP — Dame Julie Andrews is to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award when the Screen Actors Guild hands out its annual honours next year, the prestigious acting body said. The 70-year-old British star of musical classics such as "Mary Poppins" and "The Sound of Music" will be given...
*If you're looking for someone to blame -- or credit -- for the death of The Book of Daniel (replaced Friday by a Law & Order repeat, 10 p.m. ET/PT), don't look at the interest groups. Look at NBC, which dumped the show into an awful time slot in the...
LOS ANGELES AFP — Actor Brock Peters, who portrayed a black man wrongly accused of raping a white woman in the classic film "To Kill a Mockingbird," has died at age 78, the Screen Actors Guild said. Peters, ill with cancer for several months, passed away Tuesday, the Guild...
Star And Al: Newlyweds Star Jones Reynolds, co-host of ABC's "The View," and hubby, banker Al Scales Reynolds, arrive for the 11th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles. The couple wed in November during a lavish, star-studded ceremony (JET, Nov. 29, 2004).
LOS ANGELES AFP ? Most nominated films in the latest Screen Actors Guild Awards were Clint Eastwood's "Mystic River" and "The Station Agent", and "21 Grams" by Mexican director Alejandro Gonazalez Inarritu. "Mystic River" and "The Station Agent " won three nominations apiece from SAG, with two nominations for...
LOS ANGELES AFP ? Thousands of protesters marched through Los Angeles in support of 70,000 California supermarket workers who have been striking for the past two months. A clutch of celebrities joined banner and placard-waving union leaders and workers who brought traffic in parts of the sprawling western metropolis...
Wi-Fi TV Inc. (PINKSHEETS: WTVN) today launches www.WritersVoiceTV.com , a new interactive Internet TV station inspired by the current writers' strike in Hollywood. In an exclusive one hour video interview, career actor and longtime advocate for the rights of Hollywood talent, Mr. Kent McCord, 1st National Vice President of...
Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS RONALD REAGAN'S election to the presidency in 1980 marked the convergence of two processes, neither of which would have seemed likely to most Americans even a few years...
IRVINE, Calif. -- IOGEAR's Bluetooth Wireless headset has been selected by Backstage Creations, specialists in award show gifts and custom backstage talent retreats, to be included in the Presenter Gift Collection for the 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild AwardsR, which will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS on Sunday,...
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...
The Screen Actors Guild is sufficiently worried about a backlash against outspoken anti-war TV and film actors to have released a public statement last week warning of a possible blacklist. It identifies no specific incidents of threatened recrimin The Screen Actors Guild is sufficiently...
A joint committee of the American Federation of TV-Radio Artists Aftra and the Screen Actors Guild SAG is expected to recommend a merger of the two unions. Last year, Aftra and SAG each appointed task forces to explore ways in which the two unions could align themselves in the face...
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