Directors and Producers to Start Negotiations
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The Directors Guild of America and Hollywoodâs production companies said that they plan to start formal contract negotiations on Saturday.
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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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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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Hollywood directors said on  Thursday they would hold off on starting contract talks with  major film and TV studios until at least January to give  striking screenwriters time to resume their own stalled  negotiations.
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A tentative deal between screenwriters and studios comes in time to save some shows. Others will not survive.
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The Hollywood directors' union reached a contract deal with major film and television studios on Thursday -- a move likely to turn up pressure to settle a 10-week-old strike by screenwriters.
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The Hollywood directors' union reached a contract deal with major film and TV studios on Thursday in a move likely to renew momentum for settling a 10-week-old writers strike that has crippled the industry and clouded the year-end Oscar season.
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With Hollywood bracing for a season  of possible labor strife, screenwriters and studio executives  on Monday opened contract talks expected to hinge in part on  how the Internet has altered show business.
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Hollywood stars George Clooney, Robert De Niro, Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep are urging the Screen Actors Guild to start talks for a new labor contract as soon as possible in order to avert a strike.
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Hollywoodâs movie and TV directors have agreed to a new contract with production companies in a settlement that also sends a message to striking screenwriters.
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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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Hollywood directors have reached a tentative contract deal with studios after five days of negotiations, the directors union said Thursday.
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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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Movie and TV directors tentatively agreed to a new contract with production companies, sending a message to striking screenwriters.
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One of Hollywoodâs biggest independent film companies is expected to announce an agreement with striking writers.
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Hollywood directors said on  Thursday they would delay opening contract talks with major  film studios until at least January to give striking  screenwriters time to restart their own stalled negotiations.
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Striking Hollywood writers will  meet face to face with studio executives this week for the  first time since their contract talks collapsed on December 7,  people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.