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Inside the Secret Project to Boost Behind-the-Scenes Jobs for Women in Hollywood
Posted by BrianDzyak in General on December 13, 2019
12/12/2019 by Stephanie Theobald A dedicated agency, a new pool of female tech talent created with Shondaland and even a self-help book are turning the tide: “I still hear — from both genders — about women not having enough strength.” When Zoe Lister-Jones talks about her “crazy utopian dream,” the Life in Pieces star is […]
TV Studios In Strike-Preparation Mode Ahead Of WGA Contract Negotiations With Overall Deals At Stake & Streamers As Wild Card
Posted by BrianDzyak in General, Union on November 29, 2019
By Nellie Andreeva Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TV @DeadlineNellie With the end of the WGA’s current film and TV contract with AMPTP only five months away and no talks on the horizon, the TV studios are starting to prepare for a potential strike. It has become standard procedure for the major TV companies to make arrangements […]
Amputee stuntwoman sues RAF, film production firm for R40m
Posted by BrianDzyak in General, South Africa, Studio on December 15, 2018
Ilse de Lange The accident in which she lost her arm happened on the set of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter which was filmed in Johannesburg three years ago. A South African-born stuntwoman whose left arm was amputated after a horrific collision on the movie set of Resident Evil: The Final Chapter in Johannesburg three […]
Women Behind The Camera Make Less. A New Open Letter Backed By Big Stars Wants To Change That.
Posted by BrianDzyak in General on September 7, 2018
JILL O’ROURKE AUG 28, 2018 Just in time for Sunday’s Women’s Equality Day, dozens of Hollywood stars and organizations signed an open letter calling for equal pay among women in film and television production. The letter, published by the group Reel Equity, cites a recent study by Working IDEAL, commissioned by the union IATSE […]
Editors Guild Says New Media Contract So “Narrow” It Won’t Deliver On Residuals Promise
Posted by BrianDzyak in General, Studio, Union, United States on August 24, 2018
by David Robb and Dominic Patten In recommending a “no vote” on the ratification of new IATSE film and TV contract, Editors Guild Local 700 says that the pact’s new media residuals formula has such an “extraordinarily narrow scope” that it “excludes nearly all of new media.” In a posting on its website, the […]
Why Netflix May Build the World’s Most Valuable Movie Business (Guest Column)
Posted by BrianDzyak in General, Studio on August 24, 2018
8/23/2018 by Ben Weiss With a business model untethered from opening weekend box office and high variable P&A spend, the streamer has established the foundation necessary to revolutionize the model of creating and distributing original feature films. Tectonic shifts in large industries do not announce their arrival with an earthquake. Instead, they begin quietly, with […]
Why Netflix May Build the World’s Most Valuable Movie Business (Guest Column)
Posted by BrianDzyak in General, Studio on August 24, 2018
8/23/2018 by Ben Weiss With a business model untethered from opening weekend box office and high variable P&A spend, the streamer has established the foundation necessary to revolutionize the model of creating and distributing original feature films. Tectonic shifts in large industries do not announce their arrival with an earthquake. Instead, they begin quietly, with […]
Hollywood Has Made Basically No Progress in Onscreen Diversity, Study Finds
Posted by BrianDzyak in General on August 12, 2018
Despite recent efforts to change the status quo, Hollywood remains overwhelmingly white and male. In fact, according to a new study from USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, there has been no significant statistical improvement in the representation of women, people of color, LGBT characters, or characters with disability in film over the last decade.The study is a […]
Scarlett Johansson and the film industry’s gender pay gap
Posted by BrianDzyak in General, Uncategorized on July 6, 2016
Scarlett Johansson is the highest-grossing female film actor of all time, but is she really the biggest star? Not necessarily. The list on which Johansson has risen to number 10 is a running aggregate maintained by Box Office Mojo, a box office analysis website, that compiles a table containing films in which actors are featured players, […]
‘He dry-humped me in the office’: Writer reveals how she quit the film industry after being bullied and harassed on-set by an Oscar-winning director and his producers
Posted by BrianDzyak in General, United Kingdom on May 18, 2016
A writer has revealed that she spent years working behind-the-scenes in the film industry before one terrible experience at the hands of an Oscar-nominated director and an A-list movie producer made her get out for good. New Yorker Holly Raychelle Hughes says she was berated, cursed at, belittled, pressured to forge documents, and even sexually […]
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