If you work in entertainment payroll or production finance, you already know about the information problem. Tax codes change mid-quarter. Wage rules vary by state and municipality. Union rate schedules update. New software features ship. Most of this information is scattered across trade publications, regulatory bulletins, and forwarded emails that get buried before you can act on them.

That’s why we built The Call Sheet.

The Call Sheet is a free monthly newsletter from Cast & Crew. Each issue brings together the updates that matter most to payroll coordinators, production accountants, department heads, and entertainment finance leaders into a single email. One read, once a month, and you are caught up.

What’s inside each issue

Every edition of The Call Sheet covers four areas:

1. Product Updates: New features, platform improvements, and workflow changes across the Cast & Crew suite, including MyCast&Crew, Onboarding (Start+), Timekeeping (Hours+), Reporting & Insights (Reporting+), and Secure File Transfer (Studio+). If something ships that affects how you process payroll or manage onboarding, it is included here with a direct link to learn more.
   
   
2. Labor Compliance Roundup: Stay ahead of regulatory deadlines instead of scrambling after them. FUTA credit reduction updates, state wage changes, IRS mileage rate adjustments, and new requirements such as California SB294. The kind of updates that, if missed, can cost real time and real money on your next payroll run.
   
   
3. Education & Training: Each issue includes upcoming live webinars and links to on-demand learning paths organized by role, from crew members getting started with MyCast&Crew to department heads managing timecards and payroll accountants refining end-to-end workflows.
   
   
4. Industry News | Cast & Crew Content: Podcast episodes, eBooks, events we’re attending, and community resources like The Production Accounting Community (The PAC). 
   

A look at the April 2026 edition

The first issue went out this month, and here is a sample of what subscribers received: a breakdown of the new unified Cast & Crew platform, which consolidates MyCast&Crew, Start+, Hours+, Reporting+, and Studio+ into one experience. A Q1 2026 product recap covering the redesigned project onboarding flow, the SB294 compliance checkbox, skip approvers for timecards, and flexible timecard corrections. A compliance alert on the 2025 FUTA credit reduction affecting employers in California, New York, Connecticut, and the US Virgin Islands. Plus, webinar registrations, learning paths, a new eBook on hiring SAG AFTRA talent, and episodes from the Beyond the Budget and Inside Indies podcasts.

Who it’s for

The Call Sheet is written for anyone who touches entertainment payroll and production finance. That includes payroll coordinators and clerks running payroll, production accountants managing budgets and reporting, department heads approving timecards, line producers and executive producers overseeing production spend, and finance executives responsible for compliance and operations across a studio or production company’s slate.

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The Call Sheet is free, monthly, and designed to respect your inbox. No daily blasts, no filler, no spam. If an issue is not useful, an unsubscribe link is included at the bottom of every email.