Writers Guild leaders urge end to Hollywood strike
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Union leaders for striking Hollywood writers said they have reached a tentative contract deal with studios and urged members on Saturday to support it, calling for an end to a three-month walkout that has crippled TV production and overshadowed Oscar season.
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Hollywood directors have reached a tentative contract deal with studios after five days of negotiations, the directors union said Thursday. The agreement puts pressure on striking writers to end their walkout that has lasted more than two months and idled work on dozens of TV shows.
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LOS ANGELES  - With an entire industry eyeing a pair of Writers Guild of America meetings Saturday, everybody and their (out of work) brother wants to know when the picket lines will come down and the union's three-month-old strike will end.
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The Writers Guild of America plans  to brief its members this weekend on a deal taking shape to end  their 3-month-old strike, using the meetings to gauge  rank-and-file support for the labor plan, union leaders said on  Tuesday.
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Production on all but two of the last few scripted prime-time television shows shooting in Los Angeles ground to a halt on Friday as a crippling strike by Hollywood writers neared the end of its sixth week, an industry group said.
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Screenwriters by a sizable majority authorized their leaders to call a strike against Hollywoodâs producers as early as Nov. 1.
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The power to put the entertainment industry back to work was in the hands of writers Tuesday as guild members voted on whether to end their 3-month strike by accepting the terms of a tentative contract.
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Hollywood writers are optimistic the end of the three-month strike is in sight after reviewing a proposed deal from studios that increases their payments for online use of TV shows and movies.
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The president of the writers guild and his lieutenant are deliberating a question that may bode ill for both: Is their rebellion over?
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Hollywood's striking writers and major studios have moved forward towards an agreement that could end the devastating three-month-old writers' strike, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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As Hollywood's screenwriters  gathered on Saturday to hear details of a contract to end their  three-month-old strike, they also gave their top film writing  awards to comedy "Juno" and drama "No Country for Old Men."
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Striking Hollywood writers have  opened preliminary contract talks with small, independent  producers willing to break from major studios with whom the  writers are deadlocked, their union leaders said on Wednesday.
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Members of the writersâ guild are meeting in Los Angeles and New York on Saturday to discuss the settlement.
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Members of Hollywood's film and television writers union have overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike anytime after their contract expires at the end of the month.
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LOS ANGELES  Â A devastating, three-month walkout that brought the entertainment industry to a standstill ended Tuesday when Hollywood writers voted to lift their union's strike order and return to work Wednesday.
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Screenwriters in the US are preparing to vote on a deal which could end a three-month strike.
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Grammy Awards organisers ask striking US writers to let next month's ceremony go ahead as planned.