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In a sign of support for the union’s latest contract and growth, Jeanette Moreno King has been re-elected president of The Animation Guild, the IATSE Local announced on Monday.
Steve Kaplan was also re-elected business representative and Paula Spence was reappointed recording secretary in Tag’s latest Guild Officers and Executive Board election. Teri Hendrich Cusumano was elected vice president and Danny Ducker was selected as sergeant-at-arms. After voting opened on Oct. 24 for Tag members, ballots were counted and certified on Saturday, with the process supervised by the Aaa.
“We accomplished much during the last three years — organizing production staff, expanding to a national union, big gains in our last contract negotiations, and all during a pandemic and social and political unrest,” Moreno King said in a statement on Monday. “The fact that I get to keep representing this amazing community for...
In a sign of support for the union’s latest contract and growth, Jeanette Moreno King has been re-elected president of The Animation Guild, the IATSE Local announced on Monday.
Steve Kaplan was also re-elected business representative and Paula Spence was reappointed recording secretary in Tag’s latest Guild Officers and Executive Board election. Teri Hendrich Cusumano was elected vice president and Danny Ducker was selected as sergeant-at-arms. After voting opened on Oct. 24 for Tag members, ballots were counted and certified on Saturday, with the process supervised by the Aaa.
“We accomplished much during the last three years — organizing production staff, expanding to a national union, big gains in our last contract negotiations, and all during a pandemic and social and political unrest,” Moreno King said in a statement on Monday. “The fact that I get to keep representing this amazing community for...
- 11/14/2022
- by Katie Kilkenny
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Animation Guild is gearing up for its contract negotiations next week, with animation writers looking to see a significant boost in pay as part of their new deal with studios.
Animation writers are organized under the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, and have long been paid much less than their live-action counterparts, who belong to the Writers Guild of America. They have begun campaigning on social media, using the hashtag #PayAnimationWriters, and are hoping to ride a wave of labor activism to make significant gains in talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
“We really deserve parity with the WGA,” said Mairghread Scott, who has written on the “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Transformers” animated series, and who chairs the union’s writers committee. “There’s no difference in quality and no difference in difficulty. We deserve to be paid commensurately with writers who do the same job.
Animation writers are organized under the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, and have long been paid much less than their live-action counterparts, who belong to the Writers Guild of America. They have begun campaigning on social media, using the hashtag #PayAnimationWriters, and are hoping to ride a wave of labor activism to make significant gains in talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
“We really deserve parity with the WGA,” said Mairghread Scott, who has written on the “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Transformers” animated series, and who chairs the union’s writers committee. “There’s no difference in quality and no difference in difficulty. We deserve to be paid commensurately with writers who do the same job.
- 11/23/2021
- by Gene Maddaus
- Variety Film + TV
This Ducktales review contains spoilers.
The juxtaposition of the fountain of youth with a spring break hotel is sheer elegance in its simplicity. It’s a perfect spin on a story that’s been told thousands of times but done in a way that fits right at home with the new DuckTales. It takes an old concept and breathes new life into it… which is fitting for the plot of this episode.
I love the bait and switch of making you think Scrooge and Goldie are doing to the fountain of youth only for Louie to casually discover what’s really going on back at the hotel. It feels out of nowhere but when you go back you see how well it was set up earlier. It’s the perfect mystery twist and this wasn’t even a mystery-centered episode! I thought it was just going to be another adventure...
The juxtaposition of the fountain of youth with a spring break hotel is sheer elegance in its simplicity. It’s a perfect spin on a story that’s been told thousands of times but done in a way that fits right at home with the new DuckTales. It takes an old concept and breathes new life into it… which is fitting for the plot of this episode.
I love the bait and switch of making you think Scrooge and Goldie are doing to the fountain of youth only for Louie to casually discover what’s really going on back at the hotel. It feels out of nowhere but when you go back you see how well it was set up earlier. It’s the perfect mystery twist and this wasn’t even a mystery-centered episode! I thought it was just going to be another adventure...
- 10/12/2020
- by Shamus Kelley
- Den of Geek
Ben Schwartz loves being the voice of Dewey in DuckTales. We know this because in the middle of an interview about his role as Sonic the Hedgehog, Schwartz diverted the conversation to discuss DuckTales the moment we mentioned it in passing. He stopped the question in progress to simply ask,
“Literally, how good is DuckTales?”
He went on to praise the writing staff of the series; calling them “unbelievable” and said they should be getting “so much credit.”
“(Producers) Frank and Matt are our heroes and leaders in this, but if you look at that writing staff, man, they have unbelievable writers,” Schwartz says. “They have people like Madison Bateman and Colleen Evanson and they have all these incredible writers it’s just great.”
Even after we got back to discussing Sonic, Schwartz couldn’t help but plug DuckTales. He recalled while watching the Sonic movie that he wished director...
“Literally, how good is DuckTales?”
He went on to praise the writing staff of the series; calling them “unbelievable” and said they should be getting “so much credit.”
“(Producers) Frank and Matt are our heroes and leaders in this, but if you look at that writing staff, man, they have unbelievable writers,” Schwartz says. “They have people like Madison Bateman and Colleen Evanson and they have all these incredible writers it’s just great.”
Even after we got back to discussing Sonic, Schwartz couldn’t help but plug DuckTales. He recalled while watching the Sonic movie that he wished director...
- 4/17/2020
- by Shamus Kelley
- Den of Geek
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