With IATSE’s deal still up in the air, Teamsters Local 399 is taking up the mantle Monday to bargain on a new three-year contract with the studios.
Chief negotiator Lindsay Dougherty, who is the Principal Officer for Local 399, is ready to hold the line with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, and she tells Deadline she’s expecting the same in return.
“I think in this contract cycle, they’re going to bargain hard,” she said ahead of today’s negotiations. “We just want our members to get their fair share for the work that they do and, really, our proposals are extremely reasonable and extremely realistic, because, again, these are things that the studios and the streamers have already agreed to with many other unions,” she said.
In an interview with Deadline, Dougherty details some of the Teamsters’ priorities for a new three-year deal and explains how she’s juggling the sentiments of members, who have been through a tough couple of years. >>>Q&A |
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Deadline's Sound & Screen TV
Deadline’s Sound & Screen Television, held at UCLA’s Royce Hall over the weekend, featured the composers and music behind 10 high-profile television series from the past year. A full orchestra performed live in front of a packed house of TV Academy and guild voters.
Atticus and Leopold Ross, the British brothers, brought two separate projects to the event in FX’s Shōgun and Apple TV+ genre hit Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Atticus was joined by Nick Chuba for Shōgun. Benj Pasek & Justin Paul teamed on musical numbers featured in Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building. Kevin Kiner, a Star Wars veteran, took the stage to talk about Disney+ and Lucasfilm’s Ahsoka. Apple TV+ brought three more shows to the event, with Atli Örvarsson repping Silo, Carlos Rafael Rivera performing music from Lessons in Chemistry and Blake Neely talking about Masters of the Air. Peacock presented Based on a True Story, with Sherri Chung, while Prime Video brought Mr. & Mrs. Smith composer David Fleming to the stage. In addition to Shōgun, FX also delivered Jeff Russo to perform music from Fargo. >>>Watch The Q&As |
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Kristen Stewart Spreads Her Wings - Kristen Stewart is taking her first episodic starring role in The Challenger, a limited series in which she’ll play Sally Ride, the astronaut and physicist who became the first American woman to travel to space. Ride was part of a NASA space shuttle astronaut class of 1978 that was the first to not be entirely comprised of white men. >>> Space Shuttle Challenger Connection Not Too Bad, Boys - Sony's Bad Boys: Ride or Die had a great Saturday of $19.5M, down 10% against previews/first day of $21.6M, for what’s shaping up to be a $56M domestic opening. That beats the most recent round of tracking, which pegged the film at $40M+. It's also ahead of an initial $50M+ forecast three weeks ago. >>>Contributing Factors
Mystery Trail - Longtime Poirot actor David Suchet will replicate an international expedition crime writer Agatha Christie took in the 1920s in a five-part documentary series. In Travels with Agatha with Sir David Suchet, the actor will replicate Poirot author Christie’s journey, which spanned former British Empire territories Canada, Hawaii, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia as part of a trade mission. Each episode will feature one of the five countries. Filming will begin this summer, with delivery scheduled for the end of the year. >>>"Literary Enigmas"
'Lone Star' Fading? - Production is currently underway on the 12-episode fifth season of 9-1-1: Lone Star amid rampant speculation that this is the show’s final chapter and without one of the series regulars, Sierra McClain, who quietly left. >>>Cast Renegotiation Drama.
Intimacy Coordinator Interview - Brooke M. Haney was one of the first 50 intimacy coordinators recognized as qualified by SAG-AFTRA. Here, Haney discusses the guidebook she wrote, the training needed to become an intimacy coordinator and how the language of intimacy has changed over time in Hollywood. >>>Listen
House Calls - Academy Award winner Jared Leto is set to produce and star in a new film from h.wood Media, the multi-strategy vertical of L.A.-based hospitality company The h.wood Group, that draws inspiration from the story of retired professor-turned-cat burglar suspect Dr. Lawrence Gray. >>>Elite Social Circles
Franka Potente: The Film That Lit My Fuse - Long before she played the runner given 20 minutes to collect 100,000 Deutschmarks to save her boyfriend in Run Lola Run, Franka Potente had a moment of awakening as a child in Germany transfixed by the original King Kong, and she has spent her career trying to recreate the magical feeling she felt way back when. >>>Watch
‘Shōgun’ Premiere Script “Anjin” - In the forward to their Episode 1 script, Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks explain why they took on a famous book that already had been made into a classic TV series. They also reveal why “translation” is the main theme of their script “Anjin,” titled after the Japanese word for pilot and nickname of Englishman John Blackthorne. >>>Read It |
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James Burrows was back behind the camera for the reboot of Frasier, directing the first two episodes of Season 1, and now he's just returned to do the first two episodes of Season 2. Burrows joins Deadline for our video series Behind the Lens to talk about the Frasier reboot and his entire extraordinary career. >>>Watch |
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Exclusive
The Haunting of Hill House actor Henry Thomas is joining the ESX Entertainment produced horror movie The Necklace.
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John Hawkes (True Detective: Night Country) has joined the cast of Prime Video‘s graphic novel series, Criminal, in a recurring role.
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Nick Wechsler (Revenge) is set as a series regular in NBC‘s new drama series The Hunting Party. Additionally, Kyra Leroux (Riverdale) joins the series in a recurring role.
James Gunn’s Superman has added Mikaela Hoover (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3) and Christopher MacDonald to its cast.
Julia Butters is in talks to join the Freaky Friday sequel at Disney. While no other cast has been confirmed, sources say Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are in talks to reprise their roles from the original pic. |
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More News
⚽ In the leadup to Friday's start of soccer's European Championships, UTA has acquired German agency Representatives Of Outstanding Footballers. The firm's client roster includes about 150 players and managers across Europe’s ‘Big Five’ leagues (England, Spain, Germany, Italy and France). ROOF's operations will be integrated with those of the UTA-backed Klutch Sports Group, which is led by Rich Paul.
☀️ Idris Elba is teaming with factual producer Diene Petterle to launch production company 22Summers. The company will initially specialize in high-end documentaries with a cultural bent but is also building a scripted department.
🏆General Hospital was once again the big winner at the Daytime Emmys, while Dick Van Dyke was recognized for his guest work on Days of Our Lives and The Kelly Clarkson Show won its fourth consecutive trophy for Outstanding Daytime Talk Series.
🕯️ Colleagues and friends gathered Saturday at the Motion Picture & Television Fund to celebrate the life of venerable Deadline labor reporter David Robb, who died in December at age 74. There were many stories, “Dave-isms” and great impersonations of the gravelly-voiced journalist from people who had worked with him or spent countless Friday poker nights together.
📺 Jed Mercurio is behind some of the UK’s most successful dramas, and now it’s being reported that he is developing a new series based on the story of the country’s most notorious child serial killer: nurse Lucy Letby .
🚫 Max series Tokyo Vice has ended after two seasons. The news was revealed Saturday during a Produced By panel in LA. |
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Obituaries
🕯️ Alan Scarfe, best known for the films Lethal Weapon 3 and Double Impact, has died at 77. Scarfe died on April 28 from colon cancer at his home in Longueuil, Quebec, Canada, according to a recent obituary. 🕯️ Indian media baron Ramoji Rao, head of Ramoji Film City and ETV Network, died on Saturday June 8 following a short stay in hospital in Hyderabad. He was 87. 🕯️ Doris Biscoe, a pioneer for African American women TV journalists, died Friday at age 77. 🕯️ 2024 Entertainment & Media Deaths Photo Gallery |
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On the Radar
Mon - Apple's WWDC
Thu - The Boys S4 debuts; Tesla annual meeting
Fri - De Niro Con begins
Sun - The Tonys; House of the Dragon S2 premiere |
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P.E.G.O.T. Game - The Peabodys on Sunday honored Mel Brooks, 97, with the Career Achievement Award. Presenter Billy Crystal hailed him as a "P.E.G.O.T.," meaning a winner of a Peabody, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. In a wisecrack-filled acceptance speech, Brooks noted that "humility is not part of my vocabulary." |
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