Directors, Hollywood studios reach deal
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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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The Hollywood directors' union reached a contract deal with major film and television studios on Thursday, Daily Variety reported, in a move that could hasten the settlement of a 10-week-old screenwriters' strike.
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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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The Weinstein Co., one of Hollywood's largest independent film producers, says it expects to reach a deal with striking Hollywood writers that will allow the company to resume production.
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Union leaders for striking Hollywood writers said they have reached a tentative contract deal with studios and urged members on Saturday to support it, calling for an end to a three-month walkout that has crippled TV production and overshadowed Oscar season.
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After months of informal talks, Hollywoodâs movie and television directors agreed Thursday afternoon to a new contract with production companies. The accord would appear to send a none-too-subtle message to striking screenwriters: This is not the time ...
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The heads of Hollywood's film and  TV studios signed a statement of unity on Sunday, a day after  striking screenwriters signaled they would try a "divide and  conquer" strategy in an increasingly bitter strike that is  paralyzing the industry.
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A consortium led by Sony reached a tentative agreement to buy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the Hollywood studio for about $4.9 billion.
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United Artists, the film company  backed by actor Tom Cruise and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc, said on  Monday it has reached a deal enabling striking Hollywood  screenwriters to work on the company's films.
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RKO Pictures has signed an interim deal with the striking Writers Guild of America.
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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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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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The deal will let striking writers work on projects for  Media Rights Capital, a production company that helped finance the film âBabel.â
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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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A deal that would name the veteran talent manager Brad Grey to head Paramount Pictures, a studio that has suffered a string of box office flops in recent years, is almost finished.
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Hollywood's striking writers have made a key breakthrough in contract talks with film and television producers, leading to what could be a deal between the two parties by the end of next week, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
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Hollywood's two major actors unions announced late Thursday they have agreed to a new contract with film and TV producers worth &#36;200 million over three years.