After a five-hour meeting between SAG and the studios Thursday, Hollywood is in the very same place it has been since talks started April 15: without a new actors contract.
The studios said Thursday that SAG officially rejected their final offer. The guild says it didn’t.
(Hollywood Reporter)

While movies change titles all the time — Will Smith’s “Hancock” used to be called “Tonight, He Comes” — rarely does a name switch hint at a looming crisis for the film business at large. But that’s exactly what’s behind the changed title of “Journey to the Center of the Earth.”
When the Brendan Fraser adventure film, […]

 
Hollywood loves a good sequel, but here’s one it could do without: Another union strike just months after the town got up and running again from a devastating walkout by writers.
The contract between the Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers expires Monday, and negotiations have dragged on for weeks […]

India’s Reliance Entertainment and other investors are in talks with Hollywood’s DreamWorks SKG to raise up to $2 billion to create a movie venture, two people familiar with negotiations said Tuesday.
Dreamworks, the movie studio founded in 1994 by Hollywood moguls Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg, is looking to raise a total of $2 […]

Tom Rothman and Jim Gianopulos may run a movie studio, but these days they feel like traffic cops, making sure 20th Century Fox’s releases don’t crash into rival films at the multiplex.
To help them through the congestion, the movie chiefs pore over whiteboards in their offices cluttered with color-coded magnetic strips showing the films set […]

Tom Rothman and Jim Gianopulos may run a movie studio, but these days they often feel more like traffic cops, making sure 20th Century Fox’s releases don’t crash into rival films at the multiplex.
To help them through the congestion, the movie chiefs pore over slick white boards in their offices cluttered with color-coded magnetic strips […]

Leaders of the Screen Actors Guild publicly declared war on another union during a rally this week, increasing the likelihood of new labor strife in a the U.S. entertainment industry, which is still recovering from a writers’ strike that ended four months ago.
Standing outside the headquarters of the guild on Wilshire Boulevard, Alan Rosenberg, president of […]

It’s the time of year when big-budget films are released in the hope that they become box-office summer blockbusters, so in recent weeks we have witnessed the release of films such as Iron Man and Speed Racer, quickly followed by the long awaited next instalment of the Indiana Jones franchise, and Sex and the City.

But […]

A person familiar with efforts to restart talks between the Screen Actors Guild and Hollywood studios says negotiations will resume within two weeks.
The person, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said Thursday that the talks will resume by May 28.
The two sides parted ways last week after 18 days of talks over a contract […]

Now that Indiana Jones has officially demonstrated he can still flex his muscles at the box office, don’t be surprised if a new wave of crusty old action heroes are summoned out of retirement. Indeed, studios are probably champing at the bit for California’s governor to give up that silly second career, eager to re-deploy “Commando’s” […]