Wednesday, January 14, 2026
Timothy Busfield made his first appearance in court on Wednesday on charges of sexual abuse against a 7-year-old boy on the set of "The Cleaning Lady." Busfield appeared before Judge Felicia…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Timothy Busfield has turned himself into police after a warrant was issued Friday accusing him of sexual abuse of a minor. Busfield, who starred in "Thirtysomething," "The West Wing," and "F…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 11, 2025
Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed two bills backed by SAG-AFTRA that will regulate the use of "synthetic" AI performers in New York. One bill will require disclosure when an AI performer …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 3, 2025
President Trump has granted a pardon to Tim Leiweke, the live entertainment executive accused of rigging a bid to build an arena on the campus of the University of Texas. In a proclamation s…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:07PM[SHARE]Salvador Plasencia, the doctor who supplied ketamine to Matthew Perry in the weeks before his overdose death in 2023, was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in federal prison. Plasencia apolog…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:13PM[SHARE]The health fund for the Writers Guild of America has taken a brutal hit in the last two years, losing $122 million as costs increased while work slowed. Much of that decline is due to the 20…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 13, 2025
Justin Baldoni's lawyers are making a bid to throw out Blake Lively's sexual harassment lawsuit before a federal trial set for next March. In a motion for summary judgment filed Wednesday ni…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:21PM[SHARE]Nick Ritacco started acting in New York and appeared on "Law & Order: SVU" and "Homeland." Since moving to L.A., his career has taken off " in an unexpected way. In the last two years, h…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 30, 2025
Four years after the fatal shooting on the set of "Rust," the man who supplied prop guns and blanks to the production has sued Alec Baldwin in a bid to clear his name. Seth Kenney, the owner…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:30PM[SHARE]Friday, October 17, 2025
A jury on Friday rejected "9-1-1" actor Rockmond Dunbar's claim that he was fired from the show due to his religious conviction against getting the COVID-19 vaccine. The eight-member federal…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 18, 2025
President Trump on Thursday offered his full support to Brendan Carr, the FCC chairman, and warned that broadcasters who criticize him could lose their licenses. Trump was asked about "Jimmy…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 17, 2025
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has threatened to take action against ABC after Jimmy Kimmel suggested in a monologue that Charlie Kirk's assassin is "one of them," meaning one of "the MAGA gang."…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:56PM[SHARE]Friday, September 12, 2025
Sean Astin, the star of "Rudy," "Goonies" and "The Lord of the Rings," was elected Friday to be president of SAG-AFTRA, succeeding Fran Drescher. Astin was part of a slate dubbed "The Coalit…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Jennifer Gonring, the co-founder of the premier Hollywood political consultancy, Gonring Lin Spahn, has stepped down as CEO and launched an independent firm, Principle Partner. As part of th…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 9, 2025
The Writers Guild of America West has been accused of violating labor law by firing a staffer who helped organize guild employees. The Pacific Northwest Staff Union won voluntary recognition…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:05PM[SHARE]Monday, September 8, 2025
Blake Lively wants Justin Baldoni to pay millions of dollars for filing a frivolous defamation suit against her, in a test of a California law aimed at protecting sexual harassment victims w…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 28, 2025
On August 8, the WGA announced that Director Park Chan-wook and I had been expelled from membership for our work on "The Sympathizer," an HBO show that had been in postproduction during the …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:54PM[SHARE]Monday, August 18, 2025
Defense lawyers for director Carl Rinsch intend to argue that he was in a "state of psychosis" when he was making "White Horse," and therefore cannot be found guilty of defrauding Netflix ou…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 14, 2025
California's efforts to jumpstart the entertainment economy are showing early signs of success, as the California Film Commission saw a 400% spike in applications for tax credits in July. Th…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Fran Drescher is exiting the stage as president of SAG-AFTRA after a consequential tenure in which she led the union's 118-day strike against the major studios. But one of her key achievemen…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Filmmaker Park Chan-wook has responded to his expulsion from the Writers Guild of America, denying that he violated union rules that forbade writing during the 2023 writers' strike. The WGA …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:57PM[SHARE]Friday, August 8, 2025
The Writers Guild of America announced Friday that it has expelled two members, Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar, for writing on their HBO miniseries "The Sympathizer" during the 2023 strike.…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:46PM[SHARE]After four years in charge, Fran Drescher will not seek another term as president of SAG-AFTRA. Drescher's decision has been known within the union for some time. But it was made official on…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:59PM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2025
Randall Miller, the director who served a year in a Georgia jail for a fatal accident on the set of "Midnight Rider," has sued the Directors Guild of America in a bid to overturn his lifetim…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:21PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 30, 2025
A judge on Wednesday dismissed Alec Baldwin's misconduct suit against authorities in New Mexico, after Baldwin's side failed to pursue the case. Baldwin filed the 73-page complaint in Januar…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Julia Ormond is asking a court to enforce a subpoena against CAA co-founder Michael Ovitz, after he skipped a noticed deposition in June. Ormond is suing the agency for allegedly setting her…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:01PM[SHARE]Matthew Perry's doctor, Salvador Plasencia, entered a guilty plea Wednesday to four counts of ketamine distribution, and will face sentencing on Dec. 3. As part of the deal, Plasencia, 43, w…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 17, 2025
The Senate voted narrowly early Thursday morning to strip $1.1 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in a severe blow to 1,500 local public TV and radio stations a…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 25, 2025
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected a claim brought by 13 authors, including Sarah Silverman and Junot DÃaz, that Meta violated their copyrights by training its AI model on their books.…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Julia Ormond filed a lawsuit in 2023 targeting the "enablers" that allowed Harvey Weinstein to get away with sexual abuse for decades. Ormond, the star of "Legends of the Fall" and "Smill…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 18, 2025
In a long-awaited ruling, a judge has found that CAA did not steal a TV show idea from a writer to give to a higher-profile client. But Judge Kerry Bensinger also found that the agency has a…
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