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“Fargo” series creator Noah Hawley is wary of the good and bad in artificial intelligence.“I’m a human being telling stories to human beings. Decency is not an algorithm.

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Jane Fonda declares she’s ‘not done’ in SAGs 2025 Life Achievement Award speech: ‘And I can conjure up voices!’

2025 SAG Awards Sunday as she got onstage to accept the Life Achievement Award, which went to Barbra Streisand last year.Julia Louis-Dreyfus presented the award to Fonda, 87, in front of the star-studded crowd at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, after a montage played that highlighted Fonda’s film and TV career.“This means the world to me,” Fonda said to the crowd. “Thank you SAG AFTRA. Your enthusiasm makes this seem less like a late twilight of my life, and more like a go girl, kick ass.

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SAG Awards 2025: Full list of nominees and winners

Last year, “Ted Lasso” star Phil Dunster and “Red, White and Royal Blue” actor Taylor Zakhar Perez served as “ambassadors.”“Wicked” goes into Sunday’s ceremony with five nominations, the most among the film contenders, followed by “A Complete Unknown” with four and “Emilia Perez” and “Anora” each getting three. “Shōgun” topped the TV pack with five nominations, followed by “The Bear” with four and “The Penguin” with three.Legendary actress, activist and SAG-winner Jane Fonda will be honored with this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award, following Barbra Streisand being given the prestigious recognition in 2024.

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SAG Awards 2025: What the stars are eating — and the special meaning behind this year’s show

31st SAG Awards has been unveiled! The Post got a sneak peek at what guests will enjoy during the ceremony at the Screen Actors Guild Awards’ Media Preview at The Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on Thursday.This year’s awards are dubbed a “Love Letter to Los Angeles” following the deadly wildfires last month — a sentiment that SAG Awards Executive Producer Jon Brockett holds close to his heart.“I’m a longtime Angelino resident and I think we all struggled, whether you were directly impacted by the fires or not, you struggled with the emotion of it. It was really emotional for us to see our fellow residents hurting,” he told The Post.

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Video game performers to go on strike in another blow to Hollywood — here’s why

another work stoppage in Hollywood.The SAG-AFTRA has called a strike of the Interactive Media Agreement that covers video game performers, effective Friday, the union said Thursday.The decision follows months of negotiations with major videogame companies including Activision Productions, Electronic Arts, Epic Games, Take-Two Interactive, Disney Character Voices and Warner Bros Discovery’s WB Games.The Interactive Media Agreement expired in November 2022 and was being extended on a monthly basis during the talks.“Although agreements have been reached on many issues important to SAG-AFTRA members, the employers refuse to plainly affirm, in clear and enforceable language, that they will protect all performers covered by this contract in their AI language,” the union said in a statement.The SAG-AFTRA also represents the film and television actors who went on strike in July last year over concerns of inadequate safeguards against artificial intelligence, putting Hollywood in the midst of two simultaneous work stoppages for the first time in 63 years.Apart from AI protections, the SAG-AFTRA’s most pressing issues in the contract negotiations for videogame performers are higher pay, medical treatment and breaks for motion capture performers.SAG-AFTRA is seeking wage increases for videogame performers, saying their pay has not kept pace with inflation, and pursuing more protections for the motion-capture performers who wear markers or sensors on the skin or a body suit to help game makers create character movements.“We are disappointed the union has chosen to walk away when we are so close to a deal, and we remain prepared to resume negotiations.

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Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj and more warn against ‘predatory use of AI’ in open letter: ‘Will devalue the entire music ecosystem’

roar against AI. More than 200 artists, including Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Bon Jovi, Billie Eilish, Kacey Musgraves and the Jonas Brothers, have signed an open letter drawing attention to the danger that artificial intelligence poses to the music industry.

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‘Road House’ remake hit with lawsuit from original screenwriter over copyright and AI claims

hit with a lawsuit over its 2024 remake of the 1989 action flick “Road House.”The off-screen drama began Tuesday when the original film’s screenwriter, R. Lance Hill, filed a lawsuit claiming copyright infringement for refusing to license his 1986 screenplay for the original movie which starred the late Patrick Swayze.According to the lawsuit, Hill, 81, also claimed that Amazon used AI to mimic the voice of the movie’s stars in order to meet a self-imposed deadline — which was impacted by both the Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists strikes.In response, an Amazon MGM spokesperson told Entertainment Weekly that “the lawsuit filed by R.

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Intimacy coordinators now need actors’ consent to discuss sex scenes publicly — or get the boot: SAG-AFTRA

SAG-AFTRA rule now requires intimacy coordinators to get consent from actors before publicly speaking about their sex scenes.“Intimacy coordinators are a crucial resource on any set to ensure the protection of our members working in intimate scenes,” a SAG-AFTRA spokesperson told Deadline. “Intimacy coordinators should maintain the confidentiality of an actor’s work and experience in performing highly sensitive scenes unless they have the actor’s permission to publicly share this information.”“The public release of details about an actor’s scene work or confidences entrusted to the intimacy coordinator without the performer’s consent is unacceptable,” the statement continued.

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SAG-AFTRA deal approved by actors officially ending 118-day strike — what’s the new contract?

officially ending the strike that began in July. The striking actors reached a tentative deal with film studios last month.“In national voting completed today, members of SAG-AFTRA ratified the 2023 TV/Theatrical Agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP),” a press release from the union stated.

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Hollywood stunt performers ‘screwed over’ by deal to end actor’s strike, fear they’ll be replaced by AI

historically long actors’ strike and fear their industry will be “decimated” by the move.The Screen Actors Guild struck a deal to get actors and performers back to work on Nov. 9 after the 118-day strike, but the stunt workers who keep Marvel movies action-packed and help actors look superhuman on screensay the offered deal threatens their future.“I’m terrified [this contract] is going to decimate the stunt industry,” Stuntwoman’s Association of Motion Pictures member Heidi Pascoe exclusively told The Post.“The stunt community — [which] is really small — is really getting screwed over.

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Watch Kevin Bacon recreate ‘Footloose’ dance to celebrate the strike ending

posted a video of himself on social media recreating his iconic dance from “Footloose.” Still limber in his 60s, Bacon performed the dance in a barn, 39 years after first performing the dance in the 1984 classic.In the video, Bacon is backlit by the sun, and he’s shown in silhouette as he demonstrates that he’s still got his dance chops. Bacon gave his nostalgic video a simple caption, by way of explanation: “Strike over!” he wrote, tagging the official account for SAG-AFTRA. Dancing to “Footloose” is especially notable for Bacon, because in 2013 he went on “Conan” and talked about how he bribes DJs not to play that song when he attends weddings.

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‘Brad Pitt’s smile and Jennifer Aniston’s eyes’: How SAG-AFTRA fought against AI with new deal

ended on Wednesday, Nov. 8. SAG-AFTRA won protections on a range of issues from pay to health benefits – but the most controversial issue was zombies.

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The SAG-AFTRA strike is over, but don’t count on new content soon

in the person of its president, Fran Drescher) and the major Hollywood studios (AMPTP). It’s a rinse-and-repeat following on the heels of the writers’ guild (WGA), which ended its strike in early October after five months as TV scribes headed back to their writers rooms to crank out late-night monologues or plan for new episodes of their series.“I’m thrilled it’s over,” former “Parks and Recreation” co-star Jim O’Heir told me from Kansas City, where he’s starring in a play (“Catch Me If You Can”) during his strike-enforced downtime from television.

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‘Venom 3’ release date pushed to late 2024

Venom: Let There Be Carnage.” While the actors strike effectively ended on Wednesday night, its reverberations will be felt for years. Many films slated for 2024 were in the middle of production when the labor dispute began 119 days ago — and will be forced to change their release dates.

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‘Euphoria’ pushes Season 3 to 2025, infuriating fans: ‘The cast is going to be in a nursing home by then’

People.HBO attributed the delay to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike as well as the Writers Guild of America strike, which ended in September after five months. The announcement that the series, which ended with a cliffhanger, would take even longer to return to screens was met with mixed sentiment. “WTH,” one angry fan posted on X (formerly Twitter).

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Lisa Ann Walter slams Megan Fox for breaking SAG-AFTRA Halloween rules: ‘What a rebel’

Megan Fox Sunday after the former “Transformers” star tagged SAG-AFTRA in an Instagram post showing off her and fiancé Machine Gun Kelly‘s “Kill Bill”-inspired Halloween costumes. “What a rebel,” Walter, 60, wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

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Mandy Moore slams SAG-AFTRA over strict Halloween costume rules: ‘Is this a joke?’

striking performers who want to dress up as film or TV characters this year for the spooky holiday.The “Chasing Liberty” actress, 39, took to social media Thursday to blast the union.Alongside an article of the costume ban posted by Variety, Moore wrote on her Instagram Stories: “Is this a joke? Come on SAG-AFTRA.”“This is what’s important? We’re asking you to negotiate in good faith on our behalf,” she went on. Moore continued: “So many folks across every aspect of this industry have been sacrificing mightily for months.

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Desperate, striking SAG actors will try anything to remind us they exist

started July 14, Cooper can’t promote the upcoming film. But, in a stroke of incredible convenience, the 48-year-old actor is reportedly in the early stages of a new romance with supermodel Gigi Hadid, 28.As the actors’ strike drags on and prevents movie stars from doing traditional press such as talk shows and magazine interviews, A-Listers are still staying in the public eye — and in the minds of Emmy and Oscar voters — through less conventional means.

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WGA leaders approve contracts to end months-long Hollywood writers’ strike

nearly five-month-old strike over Tuesday after board members approved a contract agreement with studios, bringing Hollywood at least partly back from a historic halt in production.The governing boards of the eastern and western branches of the Writers Guild of America and their joint negotiating committee all voted to accept the deal, and afterward declared that the strike would be over and writers would be free to work starting at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.Late-night talk shows — the first to go dark when writers walked out on May 2 — are likely the first shows that will resume.The writers still have to vote to ratify the contract themselves, but lifting the strike will allow them to work during that process, the Writers Guild told members in an email.After Tuesday’s board votes, the contracts were released to the writers, who had not yet been given any details on the deal, which their leaders called “exceptional.”The members will vote between Oct.

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ABC plans to delay ‘Dancing with the Stars’ premiere due to WGA strike

Dancing with the Stars,” which was set to premiere its 32nd season on Tuesday, will be delayed due to the Writers Guild of America strike, ABC told USA TODAY.This news comes on the heels of one of the show’s contestants — former “Veep” star Matt Walsh — quick-stepping away from it in protest.“I am taking a pause from ‘Dancing with the Stars’ until an agreement is made with the WGA,” he said in a statement to Deadline. “I was excited to join the show and did so under the impression that it was not a WGA show and fell under a different agreement.”Other actors part of the SAG-AFTRA actors’ union, which joined the WGA strike in July, who are competing this season include “American Pie’s” Alyson Hannigan; Britney Spears’ sister Jamie Lynn; Barry Williams, aka Greg from “The Brady Bunch;” Mira Sorvino; “Vanderpump Rules'” star Ariana Madix and Xochitl Gomez, who starred in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.”SAG-AFTRA has made it clear that it supports the actors in their TV dance floor endeavors.

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Big Four networks eye early October to end labor strikes . . . or else

WGA and the studios are currently meeting at the table. “If the strike isn’t resolved by Oct.