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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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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LOS ANGELES  - The film industry might be tough to break into, but it's surprisingly egalitarian when it comes to houses.
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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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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 writers meet in New York and Los Angeles to consider a tentative agreement with studios that could put the strike-crippled entertainment industry back to work. Compensation for projects delivered via digital media is the central issue in the 3-month-old walkout.
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The Golden Globes film and television awards are reduced to a press conference amid a writers' strike.
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In a move related to the  Hollywood writers strike, Warner Bros. has laid off almost  three-dozen workers.
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Some fear a less lucrative future for writers as studios turn to alternatives.
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LOS ANGELES  - With a new labor contract for the Directors Guild of America expected to be announced imminently, Hollywood's top screenwriters could turn up the heat on their union to end its 11-week-old strike.
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Hollywood's striking writers and major studios have narrowed their differences after a week of informal talks, raising hopes that a new contract is within reach, the Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday.
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The lack of Hollywood awards shows this year due to the screenwriters' strike leaves not only spotlight-craving stars in the lurch but means a lot of designer gowns hanging unworn and unloved in closets.
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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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In the entertainment world, everybody is a freelancer. There is no job security for the movie fraternity in   Bollywood or anywhere in the world.
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As the ink dried on a tentative  deal between directors and studios, the big question swirling  around Hollywood on Thursday was whether it would bring  striking writers back to the negotiating table.
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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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But the film will not draw in the audiences.