Seth MacFarlane was a regular on the picket lines, paid for a bunch of food trucks, and donated $6 million to the Entertainment Community Fund. He can make FAMILY GUY as long as he wants.
Seth MacFarlane has no plans to end ‘FAMILY GUY’
“I don’t see a good reason to stop. People still love it. It makes people happy and I don’t know if there’s any reason to stop unless people get sick of it”
(Source:
@latimes
)
Farewell, Bob Newhart. The series finale of NEWHART is easily one of the greatest TV moments ever, the kind of hat trick it’d be near impossible to pull off today.
Charlie Kaufman’s barnburner of a speech at the WGA Awards is a must watch:
“They’ve tricked us into thinking we can’t do it without them, but the truth is they cannot do anything of value without us.”
For her last performance of “Funny Girl,” Lea Michele performed an extra song: “My Man,” a Fanny Brice original that Streisand sang at the end of the film version but was left out of the revival.
Sondheim’s ultimate legacy: teacher. If you’ve never seen him fangirl over a theatre student nailing “Not Getting Married,” meet your new favorite video.
Here’s why the Late Night with the Devil thing is a big deal.
First it’s three little AI drawings, then five AI effects, an AI rough cut, or AI music. It has to be a line we do not cross, otherwise the dam will be broken and there’s no going back from that.
OpenAI has reportedly scheduled meetings next week with Hollywood studios, media executives and talent agencies to form partnerships in the entertainment industry.
They reportedly want to encourage filmmakers to integrate AI into their work.
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Yesterday I was told by a writer on the picket line that he gets higher residual payments from one episode of a broadcast sitcom he wrote in 1990 than his Netflix movie that got made a few years ago
Actors suing for unpaid backend profits is good. Do you know how many writers/directors are owed money on hits that the studios claim didn’t make a dime?
Stars can afford a costly legal battle, they bring press, and they get movies made. Studios will have to play ball with them.
Last night’s
@RRRMovie
screening in LA was electric. Nearly 500 people, both fans and first-timers, screaming, cheering, and applauding for 3 solid hours.
And at the end, an immediate standing ovation. Film is a universal language and it doesn’t get better than this.
Much respect to Jennifer Garner, who not only brought at least 10 pizzas to Fox today but walked the picket line with Chris Keyser and writers from her show THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME
On the passing of director Frank Galati, the opening number to RAGTIME - to this day one of the most simple, elegant, electric, and spine-tingling stagings at the top of a show.
Netflix has used AI-generated images in a new true crime doc ‘WHAT JENNIFER DID’ to present Jennifer Pan as happy & confident before she was convicted of murder.
Use of AI tools is not disclosed in the credits.
(Source: )
WB losing $3 billion while giving Zaslav a raise up to $50 million is the summation of every single thing happening in the entertainment industry right now. It begins and ends here.
I’m tired of talent being blamed for corporate incompetence. Nobody’s pitching because nobody’s buying, unless you magically control iconic IP or attach an A-lister all by yourself.
Executives were expecting a deluge of pitches after the writers strike, but that didn’t arrive: "If come January and February, it’s still crickets, then we have a problem"
AMPTP is pulling the same trick they played on the WGA in August - leak their latest offer in an attempt to create dissent in the ranks.
Actors, there’s a very simple way to push back on this. All need to get out on the picket line and stay there.
I just called
@MayorOfLA
’s office to demand the firing of LAPD Chief Moore.
The rep confirmed they’re getting A LOT of calls and all messages will be sent to supervisors and the mayor. She encouraged me to email as well.
(213) 978-1028
mayor.garcetti
@lacity
.org
Some media outlets would have you believe there’s a fracturing among high-level WGA members…
Meanwhile the Showrunner Solidarity picket at Fox is several hundred people strong and only an hour in.
The female Tony at last night’s
#JimmyAwards
was Marley Garner from Santa Clarita, CA. Here’s her “Maria” at the Jerry Herman Awards in LA, which won her a spot in the Jimmys.
On the unscripted 2023 Tonys:
- Patti LuPone wears a “WGAStrong” pin, fails to recognize the irony
- Bernadette Peters and Joel Grey reenact their daily Zooms
- Bad Cinderella invited to perform to kill time
- Mandy Patinkin rants for 20 minutes before presenting Best Musical
I couldn’t sleep last night because I was too excited for Dame Angela Lansbury’s 94th birthday. Starting the celebration with the greatest clip on the entire internet.
@_AngelaLansbury
THE COLOR PURPLE beating AQUAMAN on Christmas Day, tying a record, and bringing in an audience that’s largely female, non-white, and over 25… I don’t want to hear another word about superhero movies ever again
Happy 99th heavenly birthday to Elaine Stritch, who gave us so much - including the time she went completely flat on the COMPANY album, then stopped singing altogether
I know we’re all waiting on Nevada and the jokes are funny! But I’ve been calling to cure ballots there since last week and most counties, especially the rural ones, are not prepared for the volume of ballots they’re receiving.
If Nancy Meyers’ THE PARENT TRAP had been made in the 30s-40s instead of 1998, it would be in the Criterion Collection and studied alongside HIS GIRL FRIDAY, MY MAN GODFREY, and IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT.