Latest Hollywood script deals
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Indie production company  East of Doheny has optioned Jim Benton&#39;s best-selling &quot;Franny  K. Stein&quot; kids book series, and will team with the Gotham  Group, another producer, to bring an animated film based on the  franchise to the big screen.
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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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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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All the best of the week's movies stories
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Apple and News Corp. have signed an agreement to offer Twentieth Century Fox movies for rent through the iTunes...
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Hollywood's striking writers and major studios have reached the outlines of a new employment contract, resolving key sticking points over how much writers should be paid for work that is distributed over the Internet, people familiar with the negotiati...
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LOS ANGELES  - George Clooney has signed on to two high-profile projects with Warner Bros. Pictures and Warner Independent Pictures.
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United Artists, the film studio backed by actor Tom Cruise, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc, said on Monday it had reached a deal enabling striking Hollywood screenwriters to work on the company's films.
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A selection of the week's best movies stories.
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LOS ANGELES  - Hollywood is taking  advantage of the first holiday frame of 2005, offering four new  wide releases to duke it out over what should be a competitive  extended weekend.
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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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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.
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Hollywood writers have approved a three-year, &#36;58 million contract with studios, producers and TV networks, union officials said.
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According to London&#39;s Financial Times, Apple is in advanced discussions with Hollywood movie studios about launching an online film-rental service to rival cable and satellite TV operators. The Wall Street Journal is also reporting the movie-rental deal, citing two studio executives familiar with the matter.
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George Clooney has  signed on to two high-profile projects with Warner Bros.  Pictures and Warner Independent Pictures.
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Hollywood is taking advantage of the first holiday frame of 2005, offering four new wide releases to duke it out over what should be a competitive extended weekend.
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Carl Icahn has emerged as a possible fourth bidder for Hollywood Entertainment, according to a regulatory filing. Free! Sign up here to receive our Midday Market Report e-Newsletter!