Directors' deal could split striking writers
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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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A breakthrough in contract talks has been reached between Hollywood studios and striking writers and could lead to a tentative deal as early as next week, a person close to the ongoing negotiations said Saturday.
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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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Hollywood writers got their first look Saturday at details of a tentative agreement with studios that could put the strike-crippled entertainment industry back to work, an offer the union's East Coast president said he was endorsing.
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Tom Cruise's film company is close to an agreement with the striking Writers Guild of America, reports say.
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The Weinstein Co., the film and TV  company run by media moguls Harvey Weinstein and his brother  Bob Weinstein, has reached an agreement that would allow  striking Hollywood writers to return to work for the company, a  company spokesman said on Thursday.
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Hollywood directors reached a tentative contract deal Thursday with studios, a development that could turn up the pressure on striking writers to settle their 2-month-old walkout that has idled production on dozens of TV shows. "Two words describe this agreement Â groundbreaking and substantial," said Gil Cates, chairman of the Directors Guild of America's negotiations committee. "There are no rollbacks of any kind."
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Striking Hollywood writers could be  back at work as early as Monday for the first time in three  months if they embrace terms of a tentative contract deal that  union leaders are expected to present them this weekend.
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TV studio executives  might try to nip the potential threat of a writers strike later  this year by tucking away scripts or even shooting extra  episodes of hit dramas and sitcoms.
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The US writers' strike could soon end with union leaders ready to put a deal to members, reports say.
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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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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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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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Striking Hollywood writers could be back at work as early as Monday for the first time in three months if they embrace terms of a tentative contract deal that union leaders are expected to present them this weekend.
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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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Film and television studio  Lionsgate said on Thursday it reached an interim agreement  enabling striking Hollywood writers to work on its projects.
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Union leaders for Hollywood  screenwriters have reached a tentative deal with film studios  and TV networks on a three-year contract worth $58 million in  raises and health benefits, both sides said on Wednesday.