Showbiz News
Dated industry announcements: executive appointments, agency signings, production starts, lawsuits and departures, attributed and updated as they develop.
How Packaging Fees Actually Work — and Why the WGA Killed Them
For decades, talent agencies collected a cut of a show's budget for assembling its cast and writers instead of commission from their clients — here's the mechanism, and why the Writers Guild spent three years dismantling it.
Record $430 Million Weekend Tests AMC's Billion-Dollar Theater Bet
The $23-an-Hour Median: How Actors and Directors Actually Get Paid
How Residuals Actually Work — and Why the Checks Got Smaller
