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Fran Drescher is weighing in on Scarlett Johansson’s highly publicized lawsuit against Disney (DIS). The actress, producer and recently appointed SAG-AFTRA president joined Yahoo Finance’s All Markets Summit to discuss fair actor pay amid the streaming boom and how she’s approached her decisions as union president after first stepping into the role in September 2021. “It is an interesting time — it was and remained so,” Drescher said, revealing that her biggest challenge was trying to unite… Source link

Scarlett Johansson and Disney (DIS) locked horns on Thursday over the release of “Black Widow,” with the entertainment behemoth dismissing a high-stakes breach of contract lawsuit as “sad and distressing.” Johansson, who starred in multiple Marvel Cinematic Universe movies as Natasha “Black Widow” Romanov, fired the first salvo in a bombshell filing that alleged Disney broke its contract with her by releasing her solo feature on streaming platform Disney+ on the same day as… Source link

The past few weeks haven’t exactly been a golden age for the Golden Globes. The annual event honoring film and television has been embroiled in near-constant controversy following a February investigation by the Los Angeles Timesthat discovered the group behind the Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, did not have a single Black member among its ranks, among other troubling revelations. By mid-March, Hollywood’s leading publicists joined with representatives from Time’s Up and… Source link