THE FIRST LADY
THE FIRST LADY LOGLINE Premise: The first First Lady to divorce a sitting US President flees to her native Los Angeles
From 148 Days on Strike to Three Weeks at the Table: What Changed for Writers Between 2023 and 2026
Two contract cycles, two very different outcomes, and a business that looks little like the one writers walked out of WGA
A Federal Tax Credit for Film and Television: The Argument Reaches Washington
A bill introduced in September would add a 20 per cent national incentive on top of what states already offer,
What a Screenwriter Is Actually Paid: Minimums, Medians and the Gap Between Them
Guild figures put the floor for a high-budget screenplay near 145,000 dollars and typical first-draft deals well above it, and
AI Cannot Be the Writer: A Working Guide to the Guardrails Screenwriters Already Have
The protections won in 2023 remain the rules of the road, and every writer taking a job should know what
Writers Asked to Be Paid When AI Trains on Their Scripts. They Got a Phone Call Instead
The 2026 contract requires studios to notify the guild if they license writers’ work for AI training and to keep
Fewer Screenwriters, More Money: The Odd Arithmetic of Feature Writing
The guild says film writing generated more for writers last year than at any time in five years, even as
The Missing First Rung: What Happened to Entry-Level Television Writing Jobs
Guild data showed staff writer and story editor posts falling by 46 per cent in a single season, and the
California Spends 750 Million Dollars a Year to Keep Production at Home. What Does a Writer Get Out of It?
The state’s expanded tax credit has been awarded to 170 projects, yet the incentive is built around where cameras roll
A Union on Both Sides of the Picket Line: When the Writers Guild’s Own Staff Went on Strike
As guild leaders prepared to bargain with the studios, their employees were picketing headquarters over wages and protection from AI WGA
A Four-Year Deal, a Month Early: How the Writers Guild Avoided a Repeat of 2023
After three weeks of talks the WGA and the studios reached a contract that trades a longer term for health
We Geeked Out Over ‘Back to the Future’ With Bob Gale Himself
Filmmaker commentaries are great, but there is one small problem. Often, you’re watching a movie with the filmmaker talking over
Reality Television Is Collapsing in Los Angeles. Should Scripted Writers Care?
Unscripted shoot days are down two-fifths in a year and the genre is not eligible for the state’s tax credit,
Screenwriter Jim Taylor Signs With Paradigm (EXCLUSIVE)
EXCLUSIVE: Jim Taylor, the Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning screenwriter known for his longtime creative partnership with filmmaker Alexander Payne