Deal to End Writersâ Strike May Be Near
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Informal talks have eliminated the major roadblocks to a new contract, people briefed on the situation said.
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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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US film and TV writers approve a deal struck by union leaders at the weekend, ending a three-month strike.
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The now 3-month-old Hollywood writers strike could enter its final chapter Saturday when guild members gather in Los Angeles and New York to consider a proposed contract
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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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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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Screenwriters in the US are preparing to vote on a deal which could end a three-month strike.
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Striking Hollywood writers could begin informal talks with studio chiefs as early as next week in an effort to end a two-month walkout that has hobbled the entertainment industry, according to a person familiar with the bargaining strategy of the writers union.
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A deal between United Artists and the Writers Guild of America West may have opened the door to a full-blown brawl.
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While negotiators edge toward agreement on the thorniest issues in the 3-month-old writers strike, many in Hollywood are nurturing new hope that an end is near for the walkout that has brought their industry to a standstill.
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LOS ANGELES  Â 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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From the picket lines to ballrooms filled with stars, Hollywood on Monday hoped for a deal to end a 3-month-old clash between striking writers and studios amid reports they could reach an agreement this week.
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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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Tom Cruise's film company is close to an agreement with the striking Writers Guild of America, reports say.
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Hollywood writers and the studios they work for are trying again to make a deal that will end the nearly three-month strike crippling the entertainment industry.
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Hollywood writers got details today of a tentative agreement that their negotiators had brokered with the major studios. In presenting the three-year deal, the West and East coast guild presidents added a message that said it was time to end the strike.
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Hollywood's striking writers have  made a key breakthrough in contract talks with film and  television studios, leading to what could be a deal between the  two parties by the end of next week, The New York Times  reported on Saturday.