Striking screenwriters win battles, still face war
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Striking Hollywood writers won two battles on Monday by making a deal to work for Tom Cruise's film company and wreaking havoc on the Golden Globe Awards, but their labor war against film and TV studios is far from over.
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Hollywood screenwriters went on strike Monday for the first time in 20 years, threatening the production of TV shows and films in the world capital of the entertainment industry.
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Hollywood writers finally returned  to work on Wednesday with a brighter future in new media but  facing uncertainty about whether their 14-week strike will cost  them lucrative TV work.
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The Academy Awards presentation is  still two months away but the world's top film awards ceremony  found itself embroiled on Tuesday in the worst Hollywood labor  clash in two decades.
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Film and television writers voted on Tuesday to lift their 14-week-old strike against the major studios and return to work the next day, formally ending the worst labor clash to hit Hollywood in 20 years.
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LOS ANGELES  - Hollywood's striking writers and the major studios enter this week sharing a single resolve: once more, with feeling.
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Hollywood writers took to the sidewalks, if not quite the streets, on Monday, as last-ditch bargaining failed to avert the first industrywide strike in more than 19 years.
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Â· Actors honour writers picket line in studio strikeÂ· Press conference replaces awards ceremony on TV
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Hollywood's striking writers and  major studios have narrowed their differences after a week of  informal talks, raising hopes that a new contract is within  reach, the Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday.
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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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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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Hollywoodâs glamour machine has gotten stuck between a promise that the stars will still show up at next monthâs Golden Globes and a threat that 3,000 picketing writers will chase them away.
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As Hollywood's screenwriters gathered on Saturday to hear details of a contract to end their three-month-old strike, they also gave their top film writing awards to comedy "Juno" and drama "No Country for Old Men."
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Ballots were still being tallied late Friday in a vote expected to authorize a strike by Hollywoodâs writers as early as Nov. 1.
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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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Hollywood writers finally returned to work on Wednesday with a brighter future in new media but facing uncertainty about whether their 14-week strike will cost them lucrative TV work.
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Lawmakers, congressional  staff and other "Hill rats" longing for the political humor  they've been without because of the writers' strike got their  fix on Wednesday during a faux debate between members of the  Writers Guild of America and the studios.