The SAG-AFTRA Foundation granted more than $800,000 in emergency financial assistance, Covid assistance, senior financial crisis aid, health assistance and disaster relief this year to members of the union, the foundation’s president, Courtney B. Vance, said in his year-end fireside chat. He also reported that the Foundation awarded another $300,000 in higher education scholarships to 106 SAG-AFTRA members and their […]

EXCLUSIVE: Annet Mahendru has signed with Buchwald for representation.   She most recently headlined AMC’s post-apocalyptic horror drama limited series The Walking Dead: World Beyond from Scott M. Gimple and Matthew Negrete. Additionally, Mahendru also starred opposite Mark Wahlberg in the biographical drama Father Stu from Sony Pictures, and Manifest West opposite Milo Gibson and Michael Cudlitz. She is best known for her portrayal of the mysterious spy Nina […]

In a major victory for SAG-AFTRA and GLAAD, IMDb has agreed to allow industry professionals to remove their dates of birth, birth names and other demographic information from its IMDb and IMDbPro sites. SAG-AFTRA long had maintained that publishing actors’ ages without their permission fuels ageism, while GLAAD has argued that publishing transgender persons’ birth names without permission is an […]

Embattled Los Angeles City Councilman Kevin de León defended his decision not to resign, as colleagues continue to shun him and, last week, he got into a physical altercation with an activist at a community event. De León told CNN that he planned to attend a council meeting on Tuesday, even though proceedings have been interrupted and even delayed as […]

The initial public offer (IPO) of India’s largest wine producer and seller Sula Vineyards (Sula)  has opened for subscription and will close on Wednesday, December 14. The issue is entirely an offer-for-sale with 26.9 million shares on the offer, which could fetch Rs 915-960 crore to the promoters and selling shareholders. The price band is fixed at Rs 340-357. As […]

Stocks moved sharply lower in early trading on Monday and have seen further downside over the course of the session. The major averages have all come under pressure after ending last Friday’s trading narrowly mixed. The major averages have moved roughly sideways in recent trading, lingering near their worst levels of the day. The Dow is down 419.36 points or […]

Ola Electric will roll out its complete offering of electric scooters and motorcycles in each segment of the market — premium, mass premium, and economical — in the next 12 months in a bid to push for a near-full conversion of the two-wheeler market to electric in three years. According to Bhavish Aggarwal, founder and CEO of Ola Electric, “ICE […]

In the midst of his massive farewell tour, Sir Elton John took the time to say another goodbye this morning. “I’ve decided to no longer use Twitter, given their recent change in policy which will allow misinformation to flourish unchecked,” John wrote on Twitter. The platform has been at the center of a number of controversies of late, most notably […]

Markus Dohle, the chief executive of Penguin Random House has announced his resignation after the world’s largest trade book publisher failed in its bid to acquire Simon & Schuster. The DOJ sued to block the $2.2 billion deal and the publishers, owned by Bertelsmann and Paramount Global, went to court. They failed to convince a judge, who ruled against the […]