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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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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Screenwriters by a sizable majority authorized their leaders to call a strike against Hollywoodâs producers as early as Nov. 1.
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As the summer winds  down, potential moviegoers might choose to take in the last few  rays of sunshine rather than cloister themselves inside a  darkened theater. Hollywood is counteracting that urge by  throwing a lot of films at audiences this weekend, hoping at  least one movie sticks.
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Voice-over work in Indiana wasn't too lucrative, so Daniel Geduld made a classic actor's move: He headed for L.A. And like most Hollywood dreamers, Geduld didn't get hired for much.
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LOS ANGELES  - Striking Hollywood screenwriters must turn in their unfinished projects by Friday so that union officials can ensure they don't secretly work for studios during the walkout, which is expected to be lengthy.
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Hollywood's television pilot season, when networks develop and test most new programs, is in a tailspin with writers on strike putting billions of advertising dollars at risk.
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With idled entertainment industry workers and Oscar-nominated actors among the interested observers, striking writers and studios are talking again after weeks of bargaining silence
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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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The Golden Globes film and television awards are reduced to a press conference amid a writers' strike.
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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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The union representing U.S. screenwriters called for a strike against film and TV studios starting on Monday in a move giving negotiators one last weekend to reach a contract deal or shatter 20 years of Hollywood labor peace.
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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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Arts & entertainment: Screenwriters' strike ends after union members vote to call off their industrial action
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Stars including George Clooney and Meryl Streep urge the actors' union to start talks in a bid to avert a strike.
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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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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.