Producer Signs Deal With Writers
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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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Hollywood's striking writers said  on Monday they will grant an "interim agreement" to organizers  of the Grammy awards allowing the ceremony honoring musicians  to be written by union members.
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The major roadblocks to a new contract between writers and production companies have been eliminated, people briefed on the situation said.
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United Artists, the film studio  backed by actor Tom Cruise, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc, said  on Monday it had reached a deal enabling striking Hollywood  screenwriters to work on the company's films.
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The Weinstein Co., the film and TV company run by media moguls Harvey Weinstein and his brother Bob Weinstein, has reached an agreement that would allow striking Hollywood writers to return to work for the company, a company spokesman said on Thursday.
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Film and television studio Lionsgate said on Thursday it reached an interim agreement enabling striking Hollywood writers to work on its projects.
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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  Â Producers of the Grammy Awards have requested an interim agreement that would allow striking Hollywood writers to work on next month's telecast, The Recording Academy said Tuesday.
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The Hollywood directors' union reached a contract deal with major film and television studios on Thursday, a source familiar with the negotiations said, confirming a report in Daily Variety.
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A breakthrough is reported in talks between Hollywood production companies and striking writers.
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As writers negotiate with producers for a bigger slice of online-distribution revenues, the possibility of actors and directors joining with disgruntled scribes for a megastrike rears its ugly head. It could simultaneously shutter the production of movies, TV and videogames.
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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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LOS ANGELES  - With a federal mediator joining the Writers Guild of America's film and TV contract negotiations for the first time in 19 years Tuesday, Hollywood is holding its collective breath that the move will actually prove meaningful.
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Hollywood writers got details today of a tentative agreement that their negotiators had brokered with the major studios. In presenting the three-year deal, the West and East coast guild presidents added a message that said it was time to end the strike.
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Startup studio Overture  Films has signed an interim agreement with the Writers Guild of  America to allow striking writers to work for the company.
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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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Hollywood's striking writers said on Monday they will grant an "interim agreement" to organizers of the Grammy awards allowing the ceremony honoring musicians to be written by union members.