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WGA

Meredith Stiehm

Writers Guild vs. Writers

Julie Bush may have never meant to cross the guild, but her aggressive excommunication and public shaming for a strike violation suggests Hollywood’s most militant union is already gearing up for another contentious studio showdown.
Matthew Belloni • April 22, 2025
Baratunde Thurston • December 9, 2024
Hollywood’s A.I. Paradox
i, robot
A candid conversation with Puck’s resident legal expert about the myriad ways that A.I. is poised to change Hollywood, from its potential to transform the talent landscape to how the town’s agencies are bracing for impact.
Matthew Belloni • November 1, 2024
The Mail Room: ‘Nobody Wants This’ Drama, Venu Plans & Timothée’s Salarée
nobody wants this
In which readers ask me about the showrunner chaos at ‘Nobody Wants This,’ when Netflix will start hosting presidential debates, how much Timothée Chalamet is getting paid for his Dylan biopic, why anyone should still care about Venu, and much more.
From left: Lindsay Dougherty, Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, Meredith Stiehm, Matthew Loeb, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, and moderator Matt Belloni speak on the A.I. Goes to Hollywood panel at the 2024 Labor Innovation & Technology Summit in Las Vegas.
Matthew Belloni • January 12, 2024
The Workers of Hollywood See A.I. Fights Ahead 
For the first time since the strikes of 2023, the leaders of five major entertainment unions come together to debate the artificial intelligence threat, what they gained (and didn’t) by shutting down the industry, and the roadmap for negotiations in ’24: “Nothing is off the table.”
Jenna Ortega at the photo call for "Wednesday" held at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on April 29, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.
Matthew Belloni • January 5, 2024
24 Surefire, 100 Percent Probable Hollywood Predictions for 2024 (Part 1)
Declining budgets, a potential Imax sale, more agency consolidation, a Netflix film reckoning, Fox’s humbling, Jenna Ortega’s rise and exit, and other hypotheses for another wild year in the entertainment business.
SAG-AFTRA members chant outside Paramount Studios on day 118 of their strike against the Hollywood studios on November 8, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.
Jonathan Handel • December 22, 2023
2023: A Hollywood Labor Odyssey
What did we learn from a tumultuous 2023? As an extraordinarily challenged year sunsets, here are five takeaways.
SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland (C) raises his fist while speaking at the conclusion of picketing outside Paramount Studios on day 113 of their strike against the Hollywood studios on November 3, 2023, in Los Angeles, California.
Matthew Belloni & Jonathan Handel • November 10, 2023
Are There Still More Strikes Ahead?
Hollywood is rejoicing after an awful six months, but as 2024 negotiations loom, will C.E.O.s take the high road?
Matthew Belloni • November 3, 2023
Hollywood’s Post-Strike Hellscape
What should be a time of relief and celebration as the SAG-AFTRA negotiations near their end is more akin to what soldiers experience in countless war movies—the horrors of battle are giving way to the equally grim reality of the new world for which they fought.
The SAG-AFTRA proposal that president Fran Drescher says she won’t back down from is also flawed.
Jonathan Handel • October 23, 2023
A 10-Point Plan to Finally Resolve the Actors Strike
With SAG-AFTRA and studios set to restart negotiations, it's time to get real: the union should drop its insistence on a per-subscriber payment and instead propose a supercharged version of the “success” bonus that the Writers Guild achieved.
SAG-AFTRA will almost certainly compromise on the key issues to a degree. And in fact, it already has.
Jonathan Handel • October 13, 2023
Can the Actors Beat the Writers’ Deal?
The WGA, after a nearly five month strike, got essentially everything the quieter Directors Guild got, plus more. Now, as talks between SAG-AFTRA and the studios hit a major speed bump, the actors want what the writers got—and more. Will it work?