WGA Leader Chris Keyser Says AMPTP Is ‘Wrestling Amongst Themselves’ to End Strikes: ‘This Negotiation Is Different’

EXCLUSIVE: A second day of direct negotiations between the Writers Guild and studio CEOs has concluded this evening.

Radio presenter Chris Evans has told his radio listeners he is now cancer-free. The 57-year-old, who started his broadcasting career working for Manchester's Piccadilly Radio, revealed that he has been given the all clear eight weeks after being diagnosed with skin cancer.

X, formerly known as Twitter, users might have to start paying to use the social media site.

Next year (depending on when these WGA and SAG strikes get worked out), we’re expected to see Anthony Mackie finally take on the role of Captain America in a Marvel Studios film. Years after he is given the shield in “Avengers: Endgame” and after he accepts the role in “The Falcon and The Winter Soldier,” Mackie is finally ready to fully lead the MCU in “Captain America: Brave New World.” That said, there are still plenty of Marvel fans already anxiously awaiting the return of the previous Captain, Chris Evans.

A meeting between a group of leading showrunners including Kenya Barris and Noah Hawley and WGA leadership has been canceled.

The “Drew Barrymore Show”‘s co-head writer, Cristina Kinon, is attempting to change her boss, Drew Barrymore’s decision to resume her daytime talk show on September 18.

A group of top-tier showrunners including Kenya Barris and Noah Hawley has set a meeting with the WGA leadership as they try to aid the negotiating process.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Chris Keyser, a tuxedoed 23-year-old, stood at a lectern at the Oxford Union to defend the moral superiority of the United States over the Soviet Union. It was 1984. Keyser, now a leader of the Writers Guild of America strike, was then a Harvard Law student.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Early in his career, comedian Kumail Nanjiani did a bit about a new drug called “cheese,” which, if you break down the ingredients, turns out to be Tylenol PM mixed with heroin. “So really, it’s heroin,” he joked. “Heroin’s doing the heavy lifting.” That line was going through my mind as I watched “Pain Hustlers,” a garish and, yes, mostly painful Big Pharma satire from director David Yates, who (“The Legend of Tarzan” aside) spent the last 15 years making increasingly convoluted Harry Potter movies.

Christine McGuinness has been flooded with messages as she told fans that she was raising a 'strong little lady' in tribute to her youngest daughter. The model shared on Saturday (September 9) how it was a 'special day' in the McGuinness household as it was her daughter Felicity's birthday.

A Salford crime lord known as 'Vlad the Impaler' is among those to be jailed in Greater Manchester this week.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer The Writers Guild of America urged members Friday to stay strong, and argued that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers will have to soften its hard-line stance in order to end the four-month strike. The WGA suggested that legacy studios that want a “fair deal” with writers will have to either assert their interests within the studio alliance, or break away from the “broken AMPTP model.” The union also revealed that in private conversations with legacy studio executives, some have expressed openness to accommodating the guild’s positions on various issues. But, the guild argued that the AMPTP as a group is trapped in a system that “favors inflexibility over compromise,” forcing all members to take a hard line.

This is Day 129 of the WGA strike and Day 56 of the SAG-AFTRA strike.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Two challengers in the SAG-AFTRA election are urging the union to bring in an outside mediator to help resolve the actors strike, which has gone on for nearly two months. Maya Gilbert-Dunbar, who is running against Fran Drescher for president of the union, argued that guild leadership has been too passive, and needs to show more urgency in restarting talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. “Chain your asses up to the damn door of the Sherman Oaks building to show how serious you are,” Gilbert-Dunbar said.

Christine McGuinness has implored her children 'not to change' as she offered a sweet family update. The model was seen in a video post to social media getting her kids' bags and shoes ready ahead of their return to school.

“Yellowstone” star after a judge ruled that the actor will pay her less than half of her preferred amount of monthly child support.“I will look into the steps I need to take and any schooling I need to do, and I will enter the workforce,” Baumgartner, 49, said in court last week about how she’ll support herself moving forward, according to People.The new ruling came as a win for Costner, 68, as he was tentatively ordered to make monthly payments of $129,755 to the former handbag designer for their three kids — Cayden, 16, Hayes, 14, and Grace, 13 — in July.But in prior legal documentation, Baumgartner, who filed for divorce from Costner in May after 18 years of marriage, allegedly claimed that the six-figure number still would be “insufficient” and result in the kids not living the same lifestyle with each parent.On Thursday in court, Baumgartner reportedly argued that Costner should cough up more in child support because a luxurious life “is in their DNA at this point.”“It’s an experience,” she claimed, per People, before describing the family home as a “community.”“We create whatever we can dream up in here,” she added.The Post has contacted reps for Costner and Baumgartner for comment. Meanwhile, Baumgartner reportedly starting the next chapter of her life in a $40,000-a-month rental home in Montecito, California.As for Costner, the Oscar-winner allegedly admitted to the court that “my world’s been a little shook up” last week amid the messy split.

Oprah Winfrey has a very tight-knit inner circle and she previously said that she only has a few close friends.

The Writers Guild released a video on Labor Day Monday, saying that the studios “are in the process of wrestling amongst themselves” for a deal to end the ongoing writers’ strike, which is now in its 126th day.

Danny Cipriani has claimed that his ex-girlfriend, Kelly Brook, 'cheated on her then-boyfriend Thom Evans' with him.The former England rugby star, 35, dated Kelly, 43, on and off from 2008 to June 2010, but she got together with Thom - Danny's former teammate and friend - later that year, which Danny said left him feeling like his “heart is being broken in glorious technicolour”. In his new autobiography Who Am I, and during an interview with The Sun on Sunday, Danny has claimed that he and Kelly went on a secret holiday to Mauritius - whilst she was still dating Thom, 38. He spoke about how he was consumed with jealousy, watching Kelly and Thom's relationship being splashed across the news when he was away playing rugby in Australia - so he set out on a mission to get her back.

The head of a family-run 'unscrupulous' meet and greet business is amongst those who have been jailed in Greater Manchester this week.