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TheAnimation Guild(IATSE Local 839) and AMPTP have reached a tentative deal for a new three-year contact.

PETALUMA, CA —23 Workers at 2K's Motion Capture (MoCap) Studio in Petaluma, California, have voted to unionize with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), Friday. The election, supervised by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), marks the first successful unionization effort at a motion capture studio in the video game industry's history. The final vote count was 15 in favor (71%), with 6 against.

Unionized workers at the nonfiction production company behind PBS'Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.have greenlit a first union contract with their employer.

Jason Reitman's "Saturday Night" opens with a roughly 3 1⁄2-minute single shot in which the camera quickly weaves through Studio 8H, capturing the chaos and energy as the now-iconic NBC series "Saturday Night Live" prepared to go "live from New York" for the Oct. 11, 1975,premiere.

"People are quick to criticize unscripted TV crews, judging and labeling them as not real filmmakers or storytellers. But the truth is that reality operators have instincts that are second to none," says Local 600 Director of Photography Dawn Fleischman, SOC.

As November 5 draws closer, labor unions are blanketing swing states with tens of thousands of canvassers, deploying far more resources than in past elections in a bid to get the labor-friendly ticket of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz elected.

Hollywood, California– Governor Gavin Newsom today announced a proposal to expand California's Film & Television Tax Credit Program to$750 million annually, a massive increase from the current $330 million annual allocation. This ambitious expansion would position California as the top state for capped film incentive programs, surpassing other states like New York.

"One doesn't come out of the womb wanting to be a cinematographer," saysGreig Fraser, the go-to director of photography for such helmers as Garth Davis, Matt Reeves, Denis Villeneuve and more.

Workers, who include cliff divers and other performers, cited unsafe work conditions and pay.