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The David Hemingson-scripted Alexander Payne dramedy The Holdovers and Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction were the big film winners at the strike-delayed 2024 Writers Guild Awards, which were handed out Sunday in Los Angeles and New York. Jefferson — who also was honored with the WGA West’s Paul Selvi…

Ron Nyswaner, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter behind films including Philadelphia and The Painted Veil and most recently the Matt Bomer-starring Showtime miniseries Fellow Travelers, is receiving this year’s Walter Bernstein Award from the Writers Guild of America East. The honor will be bestowed…

The Writers Guild of America East said Tuesday that its members at MSNBC have ratified their first collective bargaining agreement. The three-year deal includes a minimum 3% pay increase every year for the next three years, and improvements to policies regarding extra pay for overwork, overnight…

Mere minutes after some of Hollywood's biggest stars and executives issued a letter condemning the terror attacks on Israel and the taking of hundreds of hostages, The WGA East has publicly joined the Guild's West Coast leadership in deciding to stay silent on the murderous siege of the Jewish state two…

Lowell Peterson is stepping down as executive director of the Writers Guild of America East after 15 years. Peterson’s tenure will end with the expiration of his current contract on November 15 — one month after the ratification of the WGA’s latest contract with the AMPTP that brought a 148-day…

WGA East Executive Director Lowell Peterson is stepping down from his post at the expiration of his contract on Nov. 15. Peterson was with the guild for 15 years.  During Peterson’s tenure, the guild says the union's membership doubled among television and movie writers as well as with formerly…

EXCLUSIVE: “This strike was way too long, because the companies took so long to get serious,” WGA West President Meredith Stiehm declared tonight of the nearly 150 days the Writers Guild was out on the picket lines before a tentative agreement was reached on September 24. “I feel sad and pained that…

Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, running unopposed, has been elected president of the WGA East. Cullen, who until now had been VP of the guild's Film/TV/Streaming sector, succeeds Michael Winship, who chose not to seek re-election. In the WGA East’s other officer elections, two other candidates also ran…

This is Day 133 of the WGA strike and Day 60 of the SAG-AFTRA strike. Members of the striking Writers Guild gathered outside the CBS Broadcast Center in New York early Monday morning to protest the restart of The Drew Barrymore Show and to discourage the daytime talk host and her guests from crossing…

This is Day 130 of the WGA strike and Day 57 of the SAG-AFTRA strike. There was fan convention energy on the picket line outside Paramount offices in Manhattan on Friday as more than 100 people marched in a Star Trek-themed rally put on by the Writers Guild of America East.  The first of two…

This is Day 127 of the WGA strike and Day 54 of the SAG-AFTRA strike. After the long Labor Day weekend, the Writers Guild of America East had no pickets scheduled for Tuesday in New York City, and turnout was light on a hot and muggy morning at a pair of SAG-AFTRA pickets outside NBCUniversal and…

The ongoing writers strike is taking center stage in the WGA East's officer and Council elections. In their official candidate statements, released today, they all pledged their support for the strike, vowing to remain on the picket line until a fair contract is achieved. The strike, which began May 2 and…