Nick Runyeard

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At Tuesday's New Member Orientation, nearly 100 new Guild members heard from WGA West President Michele Mulroney, Vice President Travis Donnelly, Secretary-Treasurer Peter Murrieta, and past Board members and longtime Guild activists Deric Hughes and Billy Ray. #WGAstrong

Great Scott! Its #BacktotheFutureDay

"The slowdown in the business made me eager to seek out opportunities to interact with other writers and engage in that kind of content. It’s great to mingle and interact with people and hear people’s success stories or hardship stories." Read the full story at #WrittenBy vist.ly/5n4ym

#ADifferentWorld (2026) creator and showrunner Felicia Pride shares her pitching style: “I kind of look at pitching as a sales process and pitching, the act of pitching is a performance...and I always set the intention to have a great time telling a story I love” #WGAWPod

On Tuesday, WGAW Secretary Treasurer Peter Murrieta joined a delegation of labor allies and California congresspeople to push for the Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act, legislation that will create a national film tax credit for productions in the US.

You'll love it. You'll hate it. This is off-the-freaking-wall bonkers. This is art. #Digger #FilmSky

A supermajority of digital media workers at Theorist Media have signed cards to unionize with WGAW and IATSE Local 700. UNI is calling on LunarX CEO Clemens to do right by their workers and let them form a union by agreeing to card-check recognition. @teamtheorist @Clemens_Semel #TheoristsUnite

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Great script, too! 👇👧🌞

Dark humor dissected. Putting horror back into romance. heh. #screenwriting

Read, study, and download #TheOdyssey screenplay by #ChristopherNolan (based on Homer's Odyssey). Get our 32-page companion study guide and learn how the screenplay treats adaptation as interpretation, and reframes the hero. Always free, on #8FLiX #FilmSky 8flix.com/scripts/film...

"If you have one really great script that's undeniable and really shows you that your voice is unique, that's what you truly need." #Writtenby vist.ly/5cxna

Screenwriter Adam McKay on the WGA lawsuit to block Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger. Read more writer testimony here: vist.ly/5ci4w. #BlockTheMerger

WGA Statement on Paramount-WBD Merger Pause. #BlockTheMerger

TV showrunner, writer, and producer Mike Schur on the WGA lawsuit to block Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger. Read more writer testimony here: vist.ly/5cdzr. #BlockTheMerger

"U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin wrote that the state AGs 'present compelling evidence that the combined firm resulting from the transaction will possess substantial market share in the wide-release theatrical distribution market.'" #BlockTheMerger vist.ly/5bwf8

#BlockTheMerger This is my summer project. Even if it means getting kicked out of the US (again).

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Rest well. 😢 #SamNeill #RIP #FilmSky www.bbc.com/news/live/cr...

In Tennessee today, July 13, it's Nathan Bedford Forrest Day. #truestory #forrestgump #moviehistory #FilmSky Jokes aside, the real Nathan Bedford Forrest was Grand Wizard of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan. And Tennessee "observes" July 13 in his honor. (The photo is Tom Hanks, btw)

#AKnightoftheSevenKingdoms co-creator/showrunner Ira Parker on why he'd hire himself as a writer. #WGAWPod

"The time is ripe for a West Wing reboot, which is something I actually said to Aaron Sorkin recently. Current events would make the show even more of a tonic than it was in its heyday." vist.ly/59wn5 #Writtenby

Send a message to the CEO of Theorist Media/Lunar X to help Theorist writers get the contract they deserve! vist.ly/58wc7 #TheoristsUnite

“It’s our view that these companies should be focused instead on investing that money in their own businesses, rather than wasting tens of billions to buy up the competition.” #Writtenby vist.ly/58ycm

In our latest episode, we chat with #AKnightoftheSevenKingdoms co-creator/showrunner Ira Parker about the creative challenges of worldbuilding, connecting to the Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon universe, and more. #WGAWPod vist.ly/58yde

Happy Birthday @iamjulianhilliard.bsky.social ! Please accept this reasonable facsimile of your dad celebrating your b-day, before realizing you'll soon be driving. #HappyBirthday

Prof. Nick wrote a little screenplay study guide (while writer Nick looks for work) on the upcoming film #HeartoftheBeast There will be spoilers. Dir: David Ayer Screenplay by: Cameron Alexander Universal Pictures #FilmSky #screenwriting #WGA 8flix.com/scripts/film...

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How will the Paramount/WBD merger affect you? Tell us at a town hall or roundtable near you! Join us in Los Angeles with WGAW President Michele Mulroney, FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez, and Adam Conover @ 1-3pm, Saturday, June 6 at the Lumiere Cinema. www.eventbrite.com/e/main-stree...

#MaytheSith

The WGA congratulates @sagaftra.org negotiating committee, negotiating staff and members on reaching a tentative agreement for a successor contract with the AMPTP.

#Maythe4th

#blockthemerger

I'm totally nerding out over this Artemis coverage listening to all the space nerds nerding out on CNN. good times #splashdown #artemis

The WGA Negotiating Committee has unanimously approved a tentative agreement w the AMPTP for the 2026 MBA. This deal protects writers’ health plan & puts it on a sustainable path, builds on gains from 2023 & helps address free work challenges. Members will receive more info in coming days #WGAStrong

Amadeus (1984) Directed by Milos Forman starring F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce. Winner of 8 Oscars

#Apple is 50y/o today. Founded by the Woz and and Steve Jobs on this day in 1976.

United. ✊ #WGA #SAGAFTRA #OrganizedLabor

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Congratulations to legendary screenwriter and director James Cameron who is set to receive WGAW’s 2026 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement! Tune in to the #WritersGuildAwards LIVE on March 8 at 2:00 PM PT via our YouTube channel.

😢 Rest easy, sir.

Congratulations to the recipient of our 2026 Paul Selvin Award, Mstyslav Chernov! This award is given to a member(s) whose script best embodies the spirit of the constitutional and civil rights and liberties that are indispensable to the survival of free writers everywhere. #WritersGuildAwards

Today, writers joined Kaiser healthcare workers as they fight for a fair contract including AI protections. #WGAStrong

Canada's first formal and official consulate in Greenland opened today. I love that this is a thing. #Greenland (France's consulate also opened today)

“I had obviously insulted this great man. But he was an Emmy-winning writer! Why would he care what some nobody like me thinks?” #Writtenby www.writtenby.com/career-craft...

Thank you to Molly Smith Metzler and the writers of #TheRetrievals for having us in their writer's room! #WGAStrong