In Tentative Deal, Directors Send Message
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Hollywoodâs movie and TV directors have agreed to a new contract with production companies in a settlement that also sends a message to striking screenwriters.
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Officials with the striking writers guild held informal talks Tuesday with Hollywood studios that could lead to the resumption of negotiations, a person familiar with the bargaining strategy said.
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The Hollywood directors' union  reached a contract deal with major film and television studios  on Thursday -- a move likely to turn up pressure to settle a  10-week-old strike by screenwriters.
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LOS ANGELES  Â When the union representing Hollywood directors begins contract talks Saturday, striking TV and film writers will likely be calculating how a deal might affect them.
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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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OTTAWA (CP) - Thousands of striking Revenue Agency employees and the government reached a tentative agreement late Wednesday, with officials saying earlier that more pacts are expected.
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A Writers Guild leader expressed wariness over modeling a deal on a new contract recently reached between production companies and the Directors Guild of America.
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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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With less than a week to go before  a presumed strike deadline, Hollywood studio executives sought  to break a deadlock in contract talks with screenwriters by  offering a newly condensed package of proposals.
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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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After months of informal talks, Hollywoodâs movie and television directors agreed Thursday afternoon to a new contract with production companies. The accord would appear to send a none-too-subtle message to striking screenwriters: This is not the time ...
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PARK CITY, Utah  - The head of the Motion Picture Association of America said on Saturday a recent labor contract between major studios and film and TV directors offers a template for deals with striking writers and other guilds.
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An interim production deal between  striking Hollywood writers and the Lionsgate film and  television studio is imminent, said to source close to the  talks on Thursday.
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The Lionsgate movie studio is close to an interim production deal with striking Hollywood writers, a source close to the talks said on Thursday.
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Negotiators for Hollywood studios  and striking writers have agreed to terms of a new contract  that could be presented to union leaders in days and, if  approved, end their three-month-old labor clash later this  week, two sources told Reuters on Monday.
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The striking Hollywood writers guild remained on track for a possible deal with studios, but specific language of a new contract was still to be resolved, two people familiar with the negotiations said Monday.
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Union leaders for Hollywood  screenwriters have reached a tentative deal on a new three-year  contract with film studios and TV networks, the two sides said  on Wednesday.