Rhonda Palacios 
If producers use artificial intelligence to simulate an actor’s performance, they’re going to have to bargain for it, SAG-AFTRA said Friday in a statement on the use of AI and digital doubling. “The terms and conditions involving rights to digitally simulate a performer to create new performances must be bargained with the union,” the guild … Read more
Well that’s a creative new way to curdle public opinion. Lizzy Asher, the wife of Credit Suisse top exec Daniel Ezra, wore a French maid-style outfit and flashed her derriere at a New York society event — just as the Swiss government bailed out her husband’s firm for $50 billion. Without a shred of self-awareness, … Read more
Eight US nationals have been kidnapped in Mexico over the last two months, and at least two have been murdered, leaving Americans questioning just how safe heading south of the border is. In one horrifying episode, four South Carolina residents were dragged out of a mini-van by cartel members in Matamoros, Mexico. Two of them … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: Motion Picture Agent Olive Uniacke has exited the agency. She was hired in September 2018 having previously been a producer at 42MP and then a studio executive at Lionsgate. At the agency, she signed such writer/director clients as Andrew Patterson, whose movie The Vast of Night world premiered at Slamdance 2019 and was later … Read more
Goldman Sachs has taken a major financial hit after the implosion of Silicon Valley Bank and other embattled lenders prompted market chaos this week, according to a report Friday. One of the Wall Street giant’s trading desks that makes bets on interest rate products has lost approximately $200 million since SVB failed late last week, … Read more
Three Republican senators are moving to overturn President Biden’s “gambit” to have taxpayers forgive around $400 billion in student loans, as the Supreme Court’s conservative majority still weighs a separate ruling on the debt cancellation. GOP Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, John Cornyn of Texas and Joni Ernst of Iowa announced Friday that they plan … Read more
Lance Reddick, who played Charon in all four John Wick films and was a series regular on The Wire, Fringe and Bosch among dozens of other roles spanning a quarter-century, died today. He was 60. His rep at Portrait PR confirmed the news, saying he died of natural causes but not providing other details. The … Read more
Actress Sharon Stone tearfully claimed Thursday night that she lost “half” her fortune in the recent economic upheaval caused by the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank of New York. Stone spoke about the financial hit she took while urging attendees to make donations to cancer research during a speech at the Women’s Cancer … Read more
WASHINGTON — President Biden refused to take reporter questions at a St. Patrick’s Day meeting with visiting Irish leader Leo Varadkar. The media duck came despite press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre a day earlier attempting to quell a reporter outcry over the lack of a joint press conference by saying Biden might do so. The 80-year-old … Read more