In Tentative Deal, Directors Send Message
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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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A Writers Guild leader expressed wariness over modeling a deal on a new contract recently reached between production companies and the Directors Guild of America.
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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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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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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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Hollywood writers meet in New York and Los Angeles to consider a tentative agreement with studios that could put the strike-crippled entertainment industry back to work. Compensation for projects delivered via digital media is the central issue in the 3-month-old walkout.
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An agreement to end the three-month-old Hollywood writers strike could be ready in time to avoid disrupting the Oscars but studios and the union are still haggling over the precise language, two people familiar with the talks said.
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BREAKING NEWS | Leaders ask guild members to ratify tentative contract deal with studios and bring end to months-old labor clash.
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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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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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OTTAWA (CP) - Thousands of striking Revenue Agency employees and the government reached a tentative agreement late Wednesday, with officials saying earlier that more pacts are expected.
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A breakthrough is reported in talks between Hollywood production companies and striking writers.
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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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General Electric Co.  said on Sunday it had reached tentative agreements on new four-year labor contracts with the national leaders of its two largest unions.
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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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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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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.