Film and Digital Media @ Messiah

By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A day after their counterproposal to major studios’ “final” contract offer was rebuffed, Screen Actors Guild leaders huddled on Friday to consider their next move in […]

Work in Hollywood already has ground nearly to a halt as film and TV producers wait to see if there will be another long work stoppage. By next week, there will be almost no films in production. At major studios, more than two dozen television shows for next season are already shooting, but if a […]

Pope Benedict, in a May 23 address to participants in a meeting sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. explained that “if communication is to be effective it must be based on truth.”

“A communicator can attempt to inform, to educate, to entertain, to convince, to comfort; but the final worth of any communication lies […]

Thanks to the BBC

The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) broke off three weeks of contract talks without agreement on Tuesday, raisung the prospect of renewed Hollywood labor unrest after a 100-day writers strike that ended in February.

The AMPTP released a statement about 90 minutes after a self-imposed deadline for […]

Here is a brief report about continued attacks seriously affecting the Dominican Sisters and Friars in Mosul, Iraq. Please keep them in your prayers.
As I am writing this message for you two explosions took place close to Mosul university which is nearby the [Christian] Spiritual Centre. Thank God nothing happened to the Convent. All […]

A Press-Release from SAG:

Los Angeles (April 1, 2008) – Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) have agreed to begin formal negotiations Tuesday, April 15, 2008 , at 10:00 a.m. at AMPTP headquarters in Encino, CA.

“Now that we have concluded our Wages and Working Conditions process and […]

Recently the Village Voice ran an editorial piece written by playwright, screenwriter, and director, David Mamet. Mamet is perhaps the most significant dramatist in the American Theater in the past 30 years. Yes, I recognize the impact that Tony Kushner, August Wilson, Sam Shepard, Wendy Wasserstein and many others have had. But […]

U.S. movie and TV writers vote decisively to put down their pickets after a three-month dispute with the Hollywood studios over online royalties.
Their ratification of a proposed contract in weekend balloting in Los Angeles and New York ends the […]