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1. 57 relations: Actor, Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, Bob Gunton, Bob Hope, Broadcast syndication, Directors Guild of America, DVD, Electrical transcription, Extra (acting), Federal Insurance Contributions Act, Film, Film director, Film distribution, Film finance, Film industry, Film studio, Friends, Glenn Ford, Health insurance, Jeff Cohen (actor), Kinescope, Lisa Kudrow, List of Hollywood strikes, Live radio, Medicare (United States), Mickey Rooney, Pension, Puppeteer, Radio in the United States, Rerun, Ronald Reagan, Royalty payment, SAG-AFTRA, Screen Actors Guild, Screenwriter, Social Security (United States), Streaming media, Strike action, Studio City, Los Angeles, Stunt performer, Television director, Television show, The Facts of Life (TV series), The New York Times, The Shawshank Redemption, Time zone, Tom Cruise, Trade union, Universal Pictures, Writers Guild of America, ... Expand index (7 more) »

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Actor

An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a production.

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Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers

The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) is a trade association based in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, that represents over 350 American television and film production companies in collective bargaining negotiations with entertainment industry trade unions that include, among others, SAG-AFTRA, the Directors Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America West and East, the American Federation of Musicians, and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.

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Bob Gunton

Bob Gunton (born November 15, 1945) is an American character actor of stage and screen.

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Bob Hope

Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was a British-born American comedian, actor, entertainer and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in vaudeville, network radio, television, and USO Tours.

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Broadcast syndication

Broadcast syndication is the practice of content owners leasing the right to broadcast television shows or radio programs to multiple television stations or radio stations, without having an official broadcast network to air on.

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Directors Guild of America

The Directors Guild of America (DGA) is an entertainment guild that represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry and abroad.

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DVD

The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Electrical transcription

Electrical transcriptions are special phonograph recordings made exclusively for radio broadcasting,Browne, Ray B. and Browne, Pat, Eds.

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A background actor or extra is a performer in a film, television show, stage, musical, opera, or ballet production who appears in a nonspeaking or nonsinging (silent) capacity, usually in the background (for example, in an audience or busy street scene).

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Federal Insurance Contributions Act

The Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) is a United States federal payroll (or employment) tax payable by both employees and employers to fund Social Security and Medicare—federal programs that provide benefits for retirees, people with disabilities, and children of deceased workers.

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Film

A film (British English) also called a movie (American English), motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images.

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Film director

A film director is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision.

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Film distribution

Film distribution, also called film exhibition or film distribution and exhibition, is the process of making a movie available for viewing to an audience.

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Film finance

Film finance is an aspect of film production that occurs during the development stage prior to pre-production, and is concerned with determining the potential value of a proposed film.

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Film industry

The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i.e., film production companies, film studios, cinematography, animation, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post-production, film festivals, distribution, and actors. Residual (entertainment industry) and film industry are entertainment industry.

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Film studio

A film studio (also known as movie studio or simply studio) is a major entertainment company that makes films.

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Friends

Friends is an American television sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994, to May 6, 2004, lasting ten seasons.

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Glenn Ford

Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford (May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006), known as Glenn Ford, was a Canadian-American actor.

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Health insurance

Health insurance or medical insurance (also known as medical aid in South Africa) is a type of insurance that covers the whole or a part of the risk of a person incurring medical expenses.

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Jeff Cohen (actor)

Jeffrey Bertan Cohen (born Jeffrey Bertan McMahon; June 25, 1974) is an American attorney and retired child actor best remembered for appearing as Chunk in the 1985 Steven Spielberg production The Goonies.

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Kinescope

Kinescope, shortened to kine, also known as telerecording in Britain, is a recording of a television program on motion picture film, directly through a lens focused on the screen of a video monitor.

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Lisa Kudrow

Lisa Valerie Kudrow (born July 30, 1963) is an American actress.

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List of Hollywood strikes

This list of Hollywood strikes names the industrial strikes organized by Hollywood trade unions such as SAG-AFTRA (formerly the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)), the Writers Guild of America (WGA), and the Directors Guild of America (DGA).

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Live radio

Live radio is radio broadcast without delay.

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Medicare (United States)

Medicare is a federal health insurance program in the United States for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities, including those with end stage renal disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease).

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Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney (born Joseph Yule Jr.; other pseudonym Mickey Maguire; September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014) was an American actor.

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Pension

A pension is a fund into which amounts are paid regularly during an individual's working career, and from which periodic payments are made to support the person's retirement from work.

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Puppeteer

A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object called a puppet to create the illusion that the puppet is alive.

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Radio in the United States

Radio broadcasting has been used in the United States since the early 1920s to distribute news and entertainment to a national audience.

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Rerun

A rerun or repeat is a rebroadcast of an episode of a radio or television program.

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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Royalty payment

A royalty payment is a payment made by one party to another that owns a particular asset, for the right to ongoing use of that asset. Residual (entertainment industry) and royalty payment are Intellectual property law.

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SAG-AFTRA

The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

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Screen Actors Guild

The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) was an American labor union which represented over 100,000 film and television principal and background performers worldwide.

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Screenwriter

A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs, and video games, are based.

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In the United States, Social Security is the commonly used term for the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program and is administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA).

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Streaming media refers to multimedia for playback using an offline or online media player that is delivered through a network.

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Strike action

Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike and industrial action in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.

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Studio City, Los Angeles

Studio City is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, United States, in the southeast San Fernando Valley, just west of the Cahuenga Pass.

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Stunt performer

A stunt performer, often called a stuntman or stuntwoman and occasionally stuntperson or stunt-person, is a trained professional who performs daring acts, often as a career.

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Television director

A television director is in charge of the activities involved in making a television program or section of a program.

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Television show

A television show, TV program, or simply a TV show, is the general reference to any content produced for viewing on a television set that is traditionally broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, or cable.

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The Facts of Life (TV series)

The Facts of Life is an American television sitcom created by Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon and a spin-off of Diff'rent Strokes that originally aired on NBC from August 24, 1979, to May 7, 1988, making it one of the longest-running sitcoms of the 1980s.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American prison drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the 1982 Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.

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Time zone

A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes.

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Tom Cruise

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962) is an American actor and producer.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers. Residual (entertainment industry) and trade union are labor relations.

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Universal Pictures

Universal City Studios LLC, doing business as Universal Pictures (informally as Universal Studios or also known simply as Universal) is an American film production and distribution company that is a division of Universal Studios, which is owned by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast.

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Writers Guild of America

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is the generic term of two different American labor unions, representing writers in film, television, radio, and online media.

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1960 Writers Guild of America strike

The 1960 Writers Guild of America strike was a labor dispute between the Guild and the Alliance of Television Film Producers.

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1981 Writers Guild of America strike

The 1981 Writers Guild of America strike was a 3-month strike action taken to establish compensation in the then-new markets of "pay TV" and home video by 8,500 Writers Guild of America members.

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1988 Writers Guild of America strike

The 1988 Writers Guild of America strike was a strike action taken by members of both the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) and the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) against major United States television and film studios represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).

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2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike

From November 5, 2007 to February 12, 2008, all 12,000 film and television screenwriters of the American labor unions Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE), and Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) went on strike.

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2016–2017 video game voice actor strike

From October 2016 to September 2017, SAG-AFTRA, representing video game voice actors, went on strike against American video game companies over failed contract renegotiation terms of the Interactive Media Agreements that had been in discussion since February 2015.

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2023 SAG-AFTRA strike

From July 14 to November 9, 2023, the American actors' union SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) was on strike over a labor dispute with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).

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2023 Writers Guild of America strike

From May 2 to September 27, 2023, the Writers Guild of America (WGA)—representing 11,500 screenwriters—went on strike over a labor dispute with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).

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See also

Entertainment industry

• British Entertainment History Project
• Comics industry
• DDEX
• Digital casting
• Digital entertainment
• Entertainment Industry Foundation
• Entertainment companies
• Entertainment industry during World War II
• Estrada (performing arts genre)
• Film industry
• Music industry
• One sheet
• Residual (entertainment industry)
• Sex industry
• Show business
• Sout El-Hob Records
• Sport industry
• Television industry
• Toy industry
• Video game industry
• White label

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual_(entertainment_industry)

Also known as Residual payment, Residuals (entertainment industry).

, 1960 Writers Guild of America strike, 1981 Writers Guild of America strike, 1988 Writers Guild of America strike, 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike, 2016–2017 video game voice actor strike, 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, 2023 Writers Guild of America strike.