Sean Piccoli

On the West Coast, the chief negotiator for the striking Writers Guild of America, Ellen Stutzman, is more than a week into an existential battle between the 20,000 union members she represents and the movie and television studios that are, for now, not at the bargaining table.  Related Story …

After yesterday's Imagine Dragons party outside Netflix, it was Paramount's turn to pop. Around 900 picketers flooded the streets near Melrose supporting the WGA West's Committee of Black Writers. These included stars such as Samira Wiley, Gabby Sidibe, Kendrick Sampson and Robin…

UPDATED, 3:25 PM: Striking writers marching Wednesday in New York City were joined by SAG-AFTRA members Bob Odenkirk and Mandy Patinkin — and the latter’s sign harkened back to a certain beloved 1987 movie. Both Emmy winners walked the picket line side by side outside streaming giant Amazon's field…

Jonathan Majors could be imprisoned for up to a year if found guilty of a charge unveiled this morning in his domestic violence case. At the same time, the actor’s attorney today slammed proceedings as a by-product of “the racial bias that permeates the criminal justice system.” Related Story …

"You make billions/pay us some!" striking Writers Guild of America members chanted on the street of New York today near where filming was going on for Showtime's Billions. For the second day in a row, scribes showed up at a Big Apple work site for the Wall Street drama. Related Story …

EXCLUSIVE: On the third day of its first strike in 15 years, the Writers Guild of America closed down Wall Street drama Billions for several hours Thursday. Related Story Latest TV Shows Affected By WGA Strike: ‘Daredevil,’ ‘Billions’, ‘Severance,’ ‘Evil,’ ‘Stranger Things,’ ‘GoT’ Spinoff…

UPDATED with details of L.A. meeting: On the second day of the Writers Guild of America's first strike in 15 years, the guild is holding big meetings on both coasts to detail for members how they got here, what’s going on, and what's next. Picket lines broke up earlier Wednesday as the WGA East met…

As striking writers gathered Wednesday afternoon outside Netflix’s Manhattan headquarters, they were greeted by a visitor from what might be considered enemy territory: U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democratic congressman whose 17th district sits in the heart of California's Silicon Valley.  Khanna, here…

The Writers Guild of America began its second day of strike action Wednesday, picketing several sites throughout Los Angeles beginning at 9 a.m. as well as at Netflix headquarters in New York City. In L.A., protests were beginning to wrap as scheduled by around 1 p.m.; they will resume Thursday…

Paweł Łoziński started working on The Balcony Movie two years before the Covid pandemic forced people to adopt social distancing, but the air of separation between the filmmaker and his subjects in this documentary feature might feel familiar.  Łoziński’s movie is a kind of moving-picture album: a…

In the new documentary Good Night Oppy, the Mars Opportunity rover becomes the scrappy robot that could: an instrument platform that trundles across a rusty landscape millions of miles away, searching for alien life signs, and outlasts its own projected existence by almost 15 years. But none of the…

The stars of the Amazon Studios documentary Wildcat are a man, a woman and an orphaned baby jungle cat they live with in a rainforest in Peru. The subject of this first feature from a filmmaking couple based in Virginia is something more: how to survive psychological damage and suicidal depression to find…