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Veteran Studio Negotiator Faces Striking Writers and Actors

As the Hollywood union strikes have dragged on, key characters have taken turns in the spotlight.There is Fran Drescher, the comedic actress who, with surprising ferocity, has rallied the actors’ […]




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Hollywood Studios Disclose Their Offer on Day 113 of Writers Strike

In an apparent attempt to break a labor stalemate that has helped bring nearly all of Hollywood production to a standstill, the major entertainment studios took the unusual step on […]




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Can’t Hear the Dialogue in Your Streaming Show? You’re Not Alone.

“What did he just say?”Those are some of the most commonly uttered words in my home. No matter how much my wife and I crank up the TV volume, the […]




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Confusion in Hollywood as Some Productions Are Allowed to Continue

When you’re making an independent film every second counts. Ash Avildsen had six days of filming left on his low-budget biopic “Queen of the Ring” — including a climactic scene […]







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Hollywood Strike Leaves Influencers Sidelined and Confused

Deanna Giulietti is not in the actors’ union, but she turned down $28,000 last week because of its strike.Ms. Giulietti, a 29-year-old content creator with 1.8 million TikTok followers, had […]




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‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ Set Post-Pandemic Box Office High

“Barbie” arrived as a full-blown cultural event, with thousands of moviegoers draping themselves in pink for screenings, doll memes flooding social media and marketers scrambling (sometimes awkwardly) to glom onto […]




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Searching for Someone to Deliver a Hollywood Ending

The 1954 Hollywood classic “On the Waterfront” ends with unionized longshoremen on a dock. They’re fed up and standing idle, staring at a bloodied Marlon Brando. All of a sudden, […]




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Hollywood Strikes: Labor Day Looms as Crisis Point

In May, when 11,500 movie and television writers went on strike, Hollywood companies like Netflix, NBCUniversal and Disney reacted with what amounted to a shrug. The walkout wasn’t great, but […]




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In Hollywood, the Strikes Are Just Part of the Problem

Existential hand-wringing has always been part of Hollywood’s personality. But the crisis in which the entertainment capital now finds itself is different.Instead of one unwelcome disruption to face — the […]