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Beau Willimon (Andor) has been tapped to co-write Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi (working title) alongside the film’s director James Mangold, Deadline can confirm. First announced at last year’s Star Wars Celebration in London, the project will take place 25,000 years before any Star Wars story we’ve…

House Of Cards creator and showrunner Beau Willimon and his Westward producing partner Jordan Tappis have teamed with Crazy Rich Asians’ co-financier SK Global to develop a television series based on Tom Wright and Bradley Hope’s bestseller Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World…

Former WGA East president Michael Winship, running unopposed, will be the guild's next president, succeeding Beau Willimon, who's not seeking re-election after four years in office. House of Cards creator Willimon led the guild through the WGA's historic legal battle that reshaped the talent agency business. Winship…

The WGA came out today in opposition to Georgia's new voter-suppression law, suggesting that the state's booming film and television industry might suffer if it's allowed to stand. Supporters of the law say it’s designed to prevent voter fraud. "The WGA and its members do not decide whether film and TV projects are…

Fresh off the WGA’s historic victory over the talent agencies, WGA West president David A. Goodman opened his remarks tonight at the 73rd annual Writers Guild Awards with a good-natured poke at Ari Emanuel, the CEO of Endeavor, the parent company of WME, which was the last to sign the guild’s franchise agreement…

Beau Willimon, creator of Netflix's House of Cards, is overseeing a TV remake of classic board game Risk after signing a first-look deal with Hasbro-owned eOne. Willimon, who also created Hulu space drama The First, will write and oversee the development of a series adaptation of the strategy game, which was created…

UPDATED with more statements: A growing chorus of entertainment industry union leaders is condemning Wednesday's attack on the Capitol building by supporters of President Donald Trump – and the politicians who incited the violence. "It took three years, 50 weeks and four dead at the Capitol for far too few Republicans…

Leaders of the WGA East, which represent thousands of news writers and producers, condemned comments made Tuesday by President Donald Trump when he told a cheering crowd at a campaign rally in Pittsburgh that he was happy to have seen police rough up a journalist. Police in Minneapolis, he said, had thrown aside a…

Creators and showrunners aren't mentioned in the industry's protocols for the safe reopening of TV production, but they'll play key roles in on-set safety, according to leaders of the WGA East. "There have been some rumors going around that the protocols aim to exclude creators, showrunners and writer/producers from…

The WGA has appointed the members to its negotiating committee in the run-up to its talks with management's Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers for a new film and TV contract. See the list below. The current pact expires on May 1. No date has been set for the talks to begin, and it's not clear whether…

Netflix is adapting Katie Cappiello's play Slut into a ten-part drama exec produced by Gone Girl producer Joshua Donen and House of Cards' Beau Willimon, with Odessa A'zion, Amalia Yoo, Maliq Johnson, Amir Bageria and Odley Jean set to star. The series, which will be known as Grand Army, is based on the 2013 play…

Beau Willimon, running unopposed, has been re-elected president of the WGA East. His slate of running mates, all of whom support the guild's five-month-long battle with the talent agencies, also were elected. They include The Deuce co-creator David Simon, an outspoken critic of the agencies' business practices, who…