Hollywood directors hold off on contract talks
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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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Hollywood's actors and industry negotiators broke off contract talks Sunday, saying they would take an indefinite recess to consider each others' proposals.
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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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With Hollywood bracing for a season  of possible labor strife, screenwriters sat down on Monday with  studio executives for contract talks expected to hinge in part  on how the Internet has altered show business.
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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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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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Hotel workers in Washington D.C.,  San Francisco and Los Angeles on Sunday held out the threat of  a strike, but have told management they will resume contract  talks, a D.C. union official said.
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LOS ANGELES  - With rumors flying of an imminent deal, it's safe to say that Day 3 of the Directors Guild of America's contract talks with the studios went well enough for another session to be scheduled for Tuesday.
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While negotiators edge toward agreement on the thorniest issues in the 3-month-old writers strike, many in Hollywood are nurturing new hope that an end is near for the walkout that has brought their industry to a standstill.
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With idled entertainment industry workers and Oscar-nominated actors among the interested observers, striking writers and studios are talking again after weeks of bargaining silence
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LOS ANGELES  Â When the union representing Hollywood directors begins contract talks Saturday, striking TV and film writers will likely be calculating how a deal might affect them.
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Feature film production could screech to a halt in as little as three weeks if Hollywood's actors and industry negotiators do not reach a new contract by the end of the month, industry sources said Monday.
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Hollywood screenwriters and studio  executives ended a second day of contract talks on Wednesday  with the two sides far apart on major issues but planning to  resume negotiations 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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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 crippled the entertainment industry.
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LOS ANGELES  Â 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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With strike jitters running high in  Hollywood, screenwriters and studio executives resumed contract  talks on Wednesday, nine weeks after the two sides exchanged  proposals and retreated to neutral corners.