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Silly Lawsuit Against SAG Dismissed; and More
Remember the lawsuit that former SAG president Alan Rosenberg and three other Membership First members (1st VP Anne-Marie Johnson and board members Diane Ladd and Kent McCord) filed against their own union? In other WGA news, the WGA West announced 18 candidates running for 8 open board seats: Robin Schiff, David Shore, David A. in LA.
Digital Media Law - Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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Staffing: Lionsgate GC joins Southwestern board; new moves at Reed Smith, Nickelodeon, AMPTP
Lionsgate general counsel Wayne Levin has joined the board of trustees for LA's Southwestern Law School. Recent entertainment law odds and ends. He's a 1988 graduate of the school. Video game and new media specialist Patrick Sweeney has joined Reed.
THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog - Tuesday, June 1, 2010
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DGA to Negotiate on SAG & AFTRA's Heels
The Directors Guild announced on its website today that it will begin negotiations with the AMPTP (studio alliance) in mid-November, which is immediately after the scheduled end of 45 days of negotiation between the AMPTP and SAG (Screen Actors Guild) & AFTRA (a smaller performers union). Check out my residuals chart there too.
Digital Media Law - Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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  • SAG/AMPTP Reach Tentative Deal
    The Screen Actors Guild and the AMPTP have reached a tentative agreement. It is subject to review by the SAG national board of directors at an already-scheduled meeting/video conference in LA and NY this Sunday. Tags: Hollywood Politics agreement AMPTP SAG SCreen Actors Guild The official release is on the jump.
    Thompson On Hollywood - Friday, April 17, 2009
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  • SAG Board Rejects AMPTP’s final offer
    The Entertainment trades are reporting that the SAG Board today voted to reject the “final&# offer made by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, setting the stage for more turmoil and the possibility of an Actor’s strike. Stormy seas ahead for everybody who works in and around Hollywood. ?Including
    Gordon P. Firemark - Saturday, February 21, 2009
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  • AFTRA Board Approves Joint Bargaining With SAG
    At a videoconference meeting today in New York and LA, AFTRA’s national board unanimously voted to approve joint bargaining with SAG for the Primetime Television Contract and the SAG TV/theatrical contract. Negotiations between SAG and the AMPTP are currently scheduled to begin October 1 and run through November 15.
    Digital Media Law - Saturday, February 27, 2010
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  • SAG Board Approves Studio Deal
    Voting on party lines, a sharply divided SAG board approved the tentative deal with the studios yesterday by a vote of about 53% to 47%. Details and analysis of the deal are available here , and below are press releases from SAG, AFTRA (a rival actors union) and the AMPTP (the alliance representing the studios). percent to 46.62
    Digital Media Law - Monday, April 20, 2009
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  • SAG National Board Votes up New TV/Film Deal with Studios
    As I predicted, the Screen Actors Guild National Board agreed to recommend membership ratification of the new two year collective bargaining agreement with the major Hollywood studios. AMPTP David White new media SAG
    King Harvest - Sunday, April 19, 2009
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  • Battle lines drawn for SAG Weekend Board Meeting
    Variety is confirming today what I had surmised a week ago - that the moderate SAG alliance that now controls the Presidency and has a national board majority may attempt to forego a genuine search to replace the ousted NED Doug Allen and offer Interim NED David White the gig on a longer term basis. But [.].
    King Harvest - Thursday, October 15, 2009
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  • Staffing: Lionsgate GC joins Southwestern board; new moves at Reed Smith, Nickelodeon, AMPTP
    Lionsgate general counsel Wayne Levin has joined the board of trustees for LA's Southwestern Law School. Recent entertainment law odds and ends. He's a 1988 graduate of the school. Video game and new media specialist Patrick Sweeney has joined Reed.
    THR, Esq. Entertainment & Media Law Blog - Tuesday, June 1, 2010
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  • SAG Board Approves Contract
    The Screen Actors Guild national board narrowly approved a tentative new two-year feature-primetime contract with the AMPTP Sunday. The board passed the below motion shortly after 4:00 p.m. On behalf of the National Board, I thank them for their time, commitment and expertise.” salary increase in the second.
    Thompson On Hollywood - Sunday, April 19, 2009
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  • SAG Approves Joint Bargaining with AFTRA
    The Screen Actors Guild national board this morning approved an agreement to hold joint negotiations with AFTRA with the studio alliance (AMPTP) later this year, for 45 days starting on October 1. That was the date for SAG and the AMPTP to begin early negotiations. Now it will be SAG and AFTRA jointly meeting with the AMPTP.
    Digital Media Law - Saturday, March 13, 2010
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  • SAG: Opposition Grows to Strike Authorization
    Today, the AMPTP sent out a letter to politicians in key film-producing states— Cal. Also today, members of the NY SAG Board began what Back Stage’s blog describes as a “regional uprising,” releasing a letter opposing a strike authorization. Tags: SAG AMPTP Labor Unions strike NY, Ill. and Mich.
    Digital Media Law - Friday, December 12, 2008
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