Strike Means Fewer Places for Stars to Pitch Movies
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As striking screenwriters keep late-night talk shows in reruns, Hollywood publicists have been scrambling to find new ways to promote star-driven movies.
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Hollywood edged closer to possible labor unrest on Friday after film and TV writers overwhelmingly authorized their union to call a strike if no contract deal is reached with the studios by month's end.
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The problem with most bad movies about aspiring talents is that not enough of them, as Ed McMahon used to say, &quot;reach for the stars -- and catch &#39;em.
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Sunday's bare-bones Golden Globes telecast, presented without the usual Hollywood pomp due to the screenwriters strike, proved that entertainment award shows aren't much without their stars.
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Hollywood's major film and television studios said on Friday they would begin formal contract talks with directors as soon as this weekend, marking a key development in the ongoing screenwriters strike.
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Warner Bros, a unit of Time Warner  Inc, has told about 1,000 television and film production  workers that an unspecified number of layoffs will soon be  announced due to Hollywood's screenwriters strike.
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Hollywood directors reached a tentative contract deal Thursday with studios, a development that could turn up the pressure on striking writers to settle their 2-month-old walkout that has idled production on dozens of TV shows.
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Hollywood studios said Friday that striking writers have now lost more in salary and benefits than they had hoped to gain by walking off the job.
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Hollywood's major film and  television studios said on Friday they would begin formal  contract talks with directors as soon as this weekend, marking  a key development in the ongoing screenwriters strike.
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LOS ANGELES  Â You're never too big to rehearse. Tom Cruise was among the stars who stopped by the Shrine Auditorium Saturday to run through lines for Sunday's Screen Actors Guild Awards Â the only show during Hollywood's strike-subdued awards season that's sure to have an A-list turnout.
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Gloomy weather and an increasingly  dreary economic climate did not dampen the resolve of picketing  screenwriters, encouraged by the renewal of talks between their  union and studio executives on Wednesday.
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Striking Hollywood writers could begin informal talks with studio chiefs as early as next week in an effort to end a two-month walkout that has hobbled the entertainment industry, according to a person familiar with the bargaining strategy of the writers union.
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Hollywood directors reached a tentative contract deal Thursday with studios, a development that could turn up the pressure on striking writers to settle their 2-month-old walkout that has crippled the entertainment industry.
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Moviegoers are not following the script written for them by the Hollywood studios. In a sign that big-budget sequels may be losing their allure, North American ticket sales for the first three big films of the lucrative summer season have not kept pace with their respective predecessors.
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Fashion Wire Daily - So what if there is a writer's strike and none of the "Desperate Housewives" stars are going to work at the moment?
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The union representing Hollywood directors has agreed to open formal contract talks with major film and television studios on Saturday in a move seen as a potential blow to striking screenwriters.
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Arts & entertainment: Screenwriters' strike ends after union members vote to call off their industrial action