Directors' deal could split striking writers
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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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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 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 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.
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LOS ANGELES  - Figuring the winners and losers in the aftermath of the writers' tentative contract deal is a complex calculation. Writers themselves fall in both categories.
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The Weinstein Co.,  the film and TV company run by sibling media moguls Harvey and  Bob Weinstein, has reached a deal to allow striking Hollywood  writers to return to work for the studio, a company spokesman  said on Thursday.
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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 studios and striking writers reach a breakthrough in contract talks, which could lead to a tentative deal as early as next week.
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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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The Weinstein Co., the film and TV company run by sibling media moguls Harvey and Bob Weinstein, has reached an agreement to allow striking Hollywood writers to return to work for the company, a company spokesman said on Thursday.
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The Weinstein Co., the film and TV company run by sibling media moguls Harvey and Bob Weinstein, has reached a deal to allow striking Hollywood writers to return to work for the studio, a company spokesman said on Thursday.
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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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Union leaders for Hollywood  screenwriters have reached a tentative deal on a new three-year  contract with film studios and TV networks, the two sides said  on Wednesday.
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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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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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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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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.