Screenwriters and major Hollywood studios have reached a tentative three-year deal. Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption
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Brian Nelson has been a WGA member for 30 years. On the picket line outside CBS Radford Studios on Friday, The screenwriter said "whatever deal we make may be the template for other deals going forward." Mandalit del Barco hide caption
Screenwriters on strike protest in front of Paramount Studios on May 2, 2023 in Los Angeles, Calif. Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Hollywood writers reach a tentative deal with studios after nearly five month strike
Self-described "filth elder" John Waters unveiled his sidewalk star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday. "It's about time," said fan Kyle Montgomery, who attended the event. "The world is trash. He knew it all along." Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP hide caption
'Here I am, closer to the gutter than ever': John Waters gets his Hollywood star
A visitor enters the Officers Casino building at ESMA on March 19, 2016. The windows are filled with images of civilians who were tortured and killed here. Eitan Abromovitch/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
'El Juicio (The Trial)' details the 1976-'83 Argentine dictatorship's reign of terror
Saul Armendariz (left) and Gael García Bernal attend the 2023 Sundance Film Festival Cassandro premiere. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images hide caption
Tina Fey and Michelle Yeoh join Kenneth Branagh in A Haunting in Venice. Walt Disney Co./Courtesy Everett Collection hide caption
The big twist in 'A Haunting in Venice'? It's actually a great film
Issa Rae voices Angela, Brooke Monroe Conaway plays Zuri and Scott "Kid Cudi" Mescudi is Stephen in Max's Young Love. Max hide caption
There's a lot to love in the 'Hair Love'-inspired TV series 'Young Love'
Horses are spooked by the Woolsey Fire near Paramount Ranch on Nov. 9, 2018, in Agoura Hills, Calif. Matthew Simmons/Getty Images hide caption
You've likely seen this ranch on-screen — burned by wildfire, it awaits its next act
Harrison Ford in The Fugitive. PictureLux / The Hollywood Archive / Alamy Stock Photo hide caption
Sally Field plays a cotton mill worker in the 1979 drama Norma Rae. Moviestore Collection Ltd./Alamy hide caption
Wonder where Hollywood's strikes are headed? Movies might offer a clue
Clockwise from top left: Invisible Beauty, Foe, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 and Nyad. Magnolia Pictures; Amazon Studios; A24; Murray Close/Lionsgate; Focus Features; Liz Parkinson/Netflix hide caption
Drew Barrymore, left, faced backlash after she announced her talk show would return to air without her writers who are currently on strike against major studios. She later backtracked. Journalist Michael Schulman says Barrymore's great aunt, Ethel Barrymore, right, undermined union efforts in 1929. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Empire State Realty Trust; Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
Russell Brand arrives at the Rock of Ages premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on June 8, 2012. Jordan Strauss/InvisionAP hide caption
Gael García Bernal and El Hijo del Santo in Cassandro. Alejandro Lopez Pineda/Amazon Content Services LLC hide caption
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Natasha Lyonne, pictured here in November 2022, is one of several actors who's auctioning off unique experiences to support TV and movie crews impacted by the ongoing writers' strike Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Vox Media hide caption
Left: Lisa Cortés, Photographer: Paul Morejon. Right: Little Richard, Source: Magnolia Pictures. Paul Morejon/Magnolia Pictures hide caption
James Franco, Jason Segel, Linda Cardellini and Seth Rogen in Freaks and Geeks, left, and Issa Rae in Barbie. Getty Images / Warner Bros. Pictures hide caption
From 'Freaks and Geeks' to 'Barbie,' this casting director decides who gets on-screen
Matthew McConaughey hopes his new book, Just Because, will spark thoughtful conversations among families and connect people of all generations. Penguin Random House hide caption
This 1:24 scale miniature was used to film pivotal scenes from the first Star Wars film. It's now at the center of a auction of items collected over decades by Greg Jein, a master model-builder for film and TV. Heritage Auctions hide caption
Drew Barrymore is no stranger to the entertainment industry. Arturo Holmes/Getty Images hide caption
John Chiti is a Zambian musician and police commissioner. He also has albinism, a pigmentation condition that has shaped his life. His story inspired the film "Can You See Us?" — now streaming on Netflix. Jason Milikita/Sightsavers hide caption
He's a singer, a cop and the inspiration for a Netflix film about albinism in Africa
Blair Penner, left, Chloe Bennet and Anthony Konechny in Married by Mistake. E! Entertainment hide caption
Nia Vardalos stars as Toula and John Corbett stars as Ian in My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3. Focus Features hide caption