Archive for January, 2009

SAG Contract 2008- Update From the New Interim Director

Dear Screen Actors Guild member,
As I enter my first full day today as your new Interim National Executive Director, I have reflected on a Los Angeles Examiner story from 1937 that once hung on the wall of my Screen Actors Guild office when I served as General Counsel.

The article chronicled the moment when [...]

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SAG Contract 2008- Update

Los Angeles (January 15, 2009) — Screen Actors Guild today released the following message for distributors and Screen Actors Guild signatories in response to press reports that studio-affiliated distributors have raised concerns about their potential obligations as distributors of motion pictures produced under Guaranteed Completion Contracts in the event of a SAG work stoppage.
SAG’s [...]

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SAG Contract 2008- A MESSAGE FROM ERIC BOGOSIAN

A MESSAGE FROM ERIC BOGOSIAN
Dear Friends,
The New York Board of the Screen Actors Guild has released a statement of non-support for the upcoming strike authorization vote. I am writing to tell you that I was not part of the meeting in which this resolution was adopted, I did not vote for it and I object [...]

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SAG Meeting adjourns with no Action

Los Angeles, (January 13, 2009) — SAG National President Alan Rosenberg sent the following message to Screen Actors Guild national board members and alternates today:
“At the end of the National Board plenary meeting this afternoon, a group of board members submitted a document to the Guild that purports to deal with the employment of the [...]

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Palm Springs Film Festival 2009- Ghoula! 1-10-2009

Goofing Off with my friends at the Taurus Entertainment party.

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