Impact of Hollywood writers strike grows quickly
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Striking Hollywood writers forced TV studios to halt work on at least seven prime-time sitcoms by Wednesday as the effects of their 3-day-old walkout grew more swiftly than many in the industry had predicted.
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The union representing U.S. screenwriters called for a strike against film and TV studios starting on Monday in a move giving negotiators one last weekend to reach a contract deal or shatter 20 years of Hollywood labor peace.
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Hollywood writers are optimistic the end of the three-month strike is in sight after reviewing a proposed deal from studios that increases their payments for online use of TV shows and movies.
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Details are emerging on the deal between the Writers Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. John Scott Lewinski provides links to the numbers.
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Hollywood's striking writers have  made a key breakthrough in contract talks with film and  television producers, leading to what could be a deal between  the two parties by the end of next week, The New York Times  reported on Saturday.
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Hollywoodâs movie and television writers plan to embark on an industrywide strike for the first time since 1988.
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LOS ANGELES  - The Directors Guild of America has begun casual contract talks with the studios, and an announcement of formal negotiations appears likely within the coming week, a step that ensures the writers strike will persist for some time.
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TV producers say they expect writers to return to work as early as Wednesday now that the Writers Guild of America has moved to end its three-month-old strike. Membership meetings will be held Tuesday in New York and Los Angeles, said Patric Verrone, president of the guild's West Coast branch.
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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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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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According to one recent study, people are spending more time on the Internet than usual during the Hollywood TV writers' strike. According to another survey, more than half of all the people on the Web have watched online videos.
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The broadcast networks  have stepped up the stockpiling of scripted series in face of a  potential writers strike after their union&#39;s contract expires  at the end of next month.
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Three days in, the  writers strike is hitting television hard as schedules are  juggled, producer deals suspended, productions shut down and  layoffs announced.
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Marc Norman set out to document the history of American screenwriting in his new book, "What Happens Next." Now, in the thick of the writers strike that has upended the entertainment industry, he's living the latest chapter.
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The awards ceremony is a major casualty of the 10-week-long screenwriters' strike.
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Striking Hollywood writers could begin informal talks with studio chiefs as early as next week in an effort to end a two-month walkout that has hobbled the entertainment industry, according to a person familiar with the bargaining strategy of the writers union.
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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.