Tag: People’s Pilot Contest

The Writers Guild Gives Out Celebrity Gift Bags? WTF?

This is how the WGAW is getting actors to appear at the Writers Guild Awards tomorrow night? By giving away shwag? Trinkets? Expensive ones too, as in crap worth almost $2500 per person. And none of ’em are going to writers?

Say it ain’t so, WGAW. Say that we haven’t joined the Celeb Bribery Campaign!

Oh for God's sake!
Oh for God’s sake!

by Matt Russonello

The 2014 Writers Guild Awards take place this Saturday, Febuary 1, and ahead of the big night, we’re giving one lucky reader the chance to win the official Writers Guild Celebrity Gift Bag, given to stars like Julianna Margulies, Dermot Mulroney, Julie Delpy, Henry Winkler, Betsy Brandt, Joe Manganiello, and Amber Tamblyn. read article

WGA Awards Presenters Set for West Coast Ceremony

by Team TVWriter™

wgaawardsAnd now the scoop from the Writers Guild of America West’s, supercalifragalicious P.R. team:

Oscar nominee Bruce Dern, nominated for his lead role in Nebraska, will join an all-star cast of top Hollywood talent presenting honors at The 2014 Writers Guild Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Saturday, February 1, at the JW Marriott Hotel L.A. LIVE. In addition to three-time Emmy-winning Everybody Loves Raymond star and 2014 WGA L.A. show host Brad Garrett (previously announced), this year’s presenters are slated to include two-time Emmy and Golden Globe-winning The Good Wife star Julianna Margulies, Oscar-nominated writer-actress Julie Delpy (Before Midnight), three-time TV Guide Award and People’s Choice Award-winning Castle co-star Stana Katic, three-time SAG Award-nominated Breaking Bad actress Betsy Brandt, Rizzoli & Isles co-star Sasha Alexander, and six Daytime Emmy Award-winning Jeopardy host Alex Trebek.

Also scheduled to appear are Academy Award-winning comedy director-writer Mel Brooks (The Producers), who will present the WGAW’s Screen Laurel lifetime achievement award to Oscar-nominated screenwriter-director Paul Mazursky (An Unmarried Woman), two-time Golden Globe and Daytime Emmy-winning Happy Days star Henry Winkler, who will present the Guild’s Television Laurel lifetime achievement award to Happy Days creator Garry Marshall, and Oscar-nominated actress Jennifer Tilly (Bullets Over Broadway), who will present the Guild’s Valentine Davies Award to The Simpsons co-developer and philanthropist Sam Simon. WGA-winning screenwriter Bob Eisele (The Great Debaters) will present the WGAW’s Morgan Cox Award for Guild service posthumously to the late Thomas C. Cook (The China Syndrome). read article

WGA Awards Presenters Set for East Coast Ceremony

by Team TVWriter™

First, a few words from the Writers Guild of America East, courtesy of a My-T-Fine Press Release:

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An incredible line-up of presenters has been confirmed for the 66th annual Writers Guild Awards New York Ceremony on Saturday, February 1, 2014 at the Edison Ballroom in New York City. read article

Hollywood Writers Warn Against Uber-Harsh Anti-Piracy Measures

We never could have foreseen this. Never:

piracy-is-bad-posterby Ernesto

The Writers Guild of America is warning that current initiatives to protect copyright holders from online piracy go too far. The labor union, which represents many Hollywood writers, says that free speech and the open Internet should be balanced against copyright protection. Among other things they see high statutory damages, such as those the MPAA demanded against torrent site isoHunt, as unreasonable.

Last year the U.S. Government’s Internet Policy Task Force published a Green Paper signaling various copyright issues that need to be addressed. read article

Peer Production: PORTRAIT

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More peer producing genius. We look at something like this and all we can think is, “If only….”

Oh, a word to the cautious: This one’s kinda, erm, creepy. Okay, definitely creepy – as if you couldn’t already tell: read article